Featured Newsletter Articles
The Standard Siren
SummaryTen 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
Marking up the Periodic Table at KITP
SummaryOne 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
SummaryEach 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
Summary 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).Read more
Estelle Inack, Perimeter Institute
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
Leon Balents Appointed Co-Director of CIFAR’s Quantum Materials Program
SummaryScientists 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
SummaryOur 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
Summary Our cover image for the Spring Newsletter is from Gary Smaby, a long-time KITP friend and supporter. Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019
Director's Letter - 2018 Impact Report
Summary 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.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
2018 Impact Report