Featured Newsletter Articles

Walter Kohn saw the very worst the world has to offer — and he also saw the very best
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Shelly Leachman and Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

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.
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Radja Bougezhal, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello, Laura Reina, and Doreen Wackeroth;
LHC Run II and the Precision Frontier Program Coordinators
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

A new program enables visiting scientists to return to UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics to work together again in small groups
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

Summer school teaches astrophysicists how to use an open source computational code
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

Because it takes extended interactions to substantively explore ideas together and do collaborative work, visits of several weeks to entire academic years are integral to the success of our programs. The Family Fund is a crucial resource for enabling scientists to make these extended visits to the KITP.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Program Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

KITP Graduate Fellows Program grows to include students from foreign institutions
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016