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Director's Letter - Spring 2025
The banner image is a rendering of KITP House, our newest project aimed at enhancing collaborative science for the next century by providing housing for our postdoctoral scholars, graduate fellows and long-term sabbatical visitors.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025
FACTS
An international collaboration to advance condensed matter physicsRead more
by Lucile Savary, FACTS Director, CNRS Permanent Researcher
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025
Astrophysical Simulators Team Up to Better Understand Binaries and Disks
In the Spring of 2022, KITP hosted the program Bridging the Gap: Accretion and Orbital Evolution in Stellar and Black Hole Binaries.Read more
by Paul Duffell, Professor, Purdue University
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025
Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields
When it’s time for an E. coli bacterium to divide, proteins inside the single-celled organism start to chase each other around.Read more
Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs, Senior Science Writer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Building Systems of Support
Scientific excellence drives all of KITP’s endeavors, and it is achieved through unfettered intellectual exchanges between each scientist who visits.Read more
Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Streaming Instability: Bringing Dust Particles and Scientists Together
The Earth and other planets started out as particles of dust in the disk of a young star.Read more
Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Free to Speculate
The convergence of physics and biology has enriched contemporary science research, even leading to new fields like evolutionary cell biology...Read more
Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024
Director's Letter - Fall 2024
We celebrated 30 years in Kohn Hall this summer.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024