Featured Newsletter Articles
Director's Letter - Fall 2019
Fall is the time of change.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
Speaking the Same Language: The Beginnings of Quantitative Biology at KITP
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, new technologies were allowing biologists to generate massive amounts of data, but such data could be messy, and taking advantage of it demanded new quantitative tools.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019
Seizing Opportunity
Carlos Marquez wasn’t too long returned from a four-year stint with the U.S. Army and looking for steady work when his brother referred him to his own employer, UC Santa Barbara. It’s a solid job, his brother promised, one he could settle into for a while.
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Shelly Leachman, The Current
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
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
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).Read more
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