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From Earth to the Stars
NASA engineer and Finance entrepreneur David Brown has big dreams for KITP
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Behind the Scenes
Financial Assistant Lori Staggs Makes Focusing on Science Easy at KITP
Read moreSusie Groves, Assistant to the Director, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020 -
Spinning Up a Solution for Spin Liquids
Physicists model an exotic phase of matter in an attempt to solve a decades-old debate.
Read moreHarrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020 -
An Artistic Dimension
KITP’s longtime artist in residence complements scientific inquiry with artistic creativity.
Read moreHarrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
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A* Model
Physicists' innovative model provides insight into the behavior of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Read moreHarrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020 -
Director's Letter - Fall 2020
The banner image shows the excellent KITP staff during a weekly staff meeting on Zoom. Led by our most able and always spirited Chief Administrative Officer, Lisa Stewart, KITP's staff have gone above and beyond over the last eight months to keep KITP front and center for the international physics community.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
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Gravity in the Time of Corona
Just over twenty years ago, a physics major approached me after class and said he had a non-physics question. Carlos, a bright, young man from Texas, had trekked to San Francisco for his college experience, pulled by our Jesuit university’s call to nudge, cajole, or push the world toward a more humane future.
Read moreBrandon R. Brown, Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, University of San Francisco and KITP Writer-in-Residence
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Finding Community in the Castagnola-Hunter Tower Room
During her time as an organizer of the Intertwined Order and Fluctuations in Quantum Materials program in 2017, Cornell Professor of Physics Eun-Ah Kim initiated a series of regular lunches for women at KITP.
Read moreMegan Turley, Development Coordinator, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2020