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Marking up the Periodic Table at KITP

One of KITP’s goals is to bring together theorists and experimentalists with different expertise to intensively study important issues
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Jennifer Johnson, Ohio State University and Inese Ivans, University of Utah
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
A Fruitful Collaboration Continues

Each summer, the Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology runs alongside a KITP biology program, distinguishing itself by linking the program’s critical discussion and exploration of important theoretical topics to the lab projects.
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Honour McCann, Massey University’s New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
The Standard Siren

Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves, two KITP postdocs had a novel idea.
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Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
A Missing Flag
My journey in Physics started in my home country of Cameroon, completing a Master in Physics at the University of Buea in 2013 on the modelling of nerve impulses in biological neural networks. I then obtained a postgraduate diploma scholarship to study Condensed Matter Physics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
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Estelle Inack, Perimeter Institute
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
Director's Letter - 2018 Impact Report
I joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics nearly twenty years ago as a Permanent Member. Then Director David Gross explained why the move to Santa Barbara would enable me to expand my research and career in new directions.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
2018 Impact Report
Investing by Intuition - 2018 Impact Report
The Troxels gift $1M to establish the Troxel Family Chair in Theoretical Physics
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2018 Impact Report
A Visionary Return on Investment - 2018 Impact Report
Carl Feinberg commits $1.45M to establish a chair in theoretical physics
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2018 Impact Report
A Friend for New Knowledge - 2018 Impact Report
Virginia Castagnola-Hunter shares inspiration behind her philanthropy
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2018 Impact Report