Featured Newsletter Articles
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Turbulence Mixes Up Particles and Physicists
The flows can be found everywhere
Read moreStephanie Pernett, UCSB Daily Nexus
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017 -
Inspiration in the Stars
Lars Bildsten wins the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017 -
Director's Letter - Spring 2017
We housed our first physicists and their families in the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence on January 1, 2017.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017 -
Nuclear Physics in the Spotlight
From exploring nature’s most extreme environments to testing its most fundamental symmetries
Read moreZohreh Davoudi, MIT
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017 -
See you in the Smellyverse
Olfaction is the final frontier of our senses, the one that is still mysterious to us. Despite large amounts of genetic, physiological, and perceptual data, many fundamental questions about our sense of smell remain unresolved.
Read moreAlexei Koulakov, Deconstructing the Sense of Smell Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016 -
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
A KITP program participant explains how math used in sewing and knitting also describes cosmic curvature
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016 -
In Memoriam: Dr. Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn saw the very worst the world has to offer — and he also saw the very best
Read moreShelly Leachman and Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016 -
Getting Ready for the Precision Frontier at the LHC
High-energy physics has entered a new era of discovery as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory has begun colliding protons at an energy almost 7 times greater than the best previous machine.
Read moreRadja Bougezhal, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello, Laura Reina, and Doreen Wackeroth;
LHC Run II and the Precision Frontier Program Coordinators
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016