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Spinning Up a Solution for Spin Liquids

Physicists model an exotic phase of matter in an attempt to solve a decades-old debate.
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Harrison 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.
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Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, 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.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020

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.
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Brandon R. Brown, Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, University of San Francisco and KITP Writer-in-Residence
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020

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.
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Megan Turley, Development Coordinator, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2020