Featured Newsletter Articles
From Quantum to Classical and Back
Bulbul Chakraborty, a former KITP Advisory Board member and chairperson, is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University.
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Maggie Sherriffs, Special Programs and Evaluations Manager, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2020
Sheltering in Place at the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence
Participants in KITP’s Active Matter Program Find the Silver Linings
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Cecilia Leal, Associate Professor and Racheff Faculty Scholar in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign and Ivan Smalyukh, Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2020
Director's Letter - Spring 2020
On Sunday, March 8, 2020 I arrived at Kohn Hall at 9:30 AM to see water flowing out the door and down the steps!
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2020
Waves of Change: KITP collaborators create a computational framework for fluid dynamics
The 2014 Wave-Flows program at the KITP was the ideal place to formulate Dedalus, an open-source computational framework that solves intricate classes of problems accurately and efficiently. Potential applications for Dedalus include fluid, chemical, radiation and biological transport problems in stars, planets, and laboratories.
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Megan Turley, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
Where Scientific Method Meets Artistic License
Viewing science at KITP through a different lens
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Gary Smaby
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
Real-World Impact
A Testimonial from the KITP Teacher’s Conference
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Bruce Boehne, Middle School Math / Science / STEM Teacher at Zion Lutheran School, Dallas, Texas
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
A Meeting to Remember: The Polchinski Symposium
In December 2018, we held a one-day symposium to celebrate the life and career of late KITP Permanent Member Joe Polchinski.
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Robert Leigh, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
and Eva M. Silverstein, Stanford
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
An Artistic Odyssey: Beloved interactive art piece Ulysses returns to Kohn Hall
We were very excited this month to see the return of Ulysses, the unique sculpture designed and built by KITP's Artist-in-Residence Jean-Pierre Hebert.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019