Featured Newsletter Articles
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
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