Featured Newsletter Articles

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

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

Leon Balents Appointed Co-Director of CIFAR’s Quantum Materials Program

Scientists have known for a long time that nature is quantum, following physical principles — at the atomic and molecular levels — that to the naked eye would seem counterintuitive and downright surreal.
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Quantum Metals Meet Gravity

Our Fall 2018 KITP program “Chaos and Order: from Strongly Correlated Systems to Black Holes” was triggered by progress that occurred in two distinct steps over a period of more than twenty years. A paper in 1993 and a series of talks at KITP in 2015! These remarkable insights are now referred to as the SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev) model.
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Mark Bowick, KITP Deputy Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Director's Letter - Spring 2019

Our cover image for the Spring Newsletter is from Gary Smaby, a long-time KITP friend and supporter. Read more

Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019