Featured Newsletter Articles
Leon Balents Elected to Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor Leon Balents was elected as a member of the 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April of 2018. His selection, along with two additional UCSB professors, brings the total number of UCSB faculty members named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to 37.
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Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Two KITP Programs Probed the Properties of Dark Matter
During the spring of 2018 particle physicists and astrophysicists gathered at KITP to participate in two complementary programs, one in the field of astrophysics and the other in the field of high energy physics. Both programs were aimed at shedding light on a puzzle that has excited a whole new generation of researchers.
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Professor Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist University
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
More Ways to Connect: @KITP_UCSB
KITP has fostered connections amongst scientific communities for almost 40 years through well-defined and extended-stay interactive scientific programs, and by allowing space and time for deep and lasting collaborative relationships to develop. On January 1, 2018, we added a new venue for connecting our visiting scientists, the global scientific community, and science enthusiasts when we launched the @KITP_UCSB Twitter account.
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Lisa Stewart, KITP Chief Administrative Officer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Superstars’ Secrets
Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
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Sarah Webb, PhD, Senior Science Writer for Krell Institute
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
A New Wrinkle in Physics
Postdoctoral scholar pushes beyond the boundaries of physics with his Café KITP talk on the brain’s physical structure
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Director's Letter - Fall 2018
I hope that by now you have seen our 2018 Impact Report, which is the first edition of what will become our annual report to all KITP supporters.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Physics of Dense Suspensions and the Montecito Debris Flows
Dense suspensions are liquids that contain a large proportion of solid particles, and they exhibit a striking range of behaviors. Understanding this rich interplay of physics is at the frontier of the physics of “soft matter”, and formed the central theme of the “Physics of Dense Suspensions” program that took place at KITP in Spring 2018.
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Douglas J. Jerolmack, Professor of Geophysics at University of Pennsylvania
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018
Mourning the Loss of Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes
Joe Polchinski, who passed away Feb. 2, left a tremendous professional and personal legacy, says a friend and collaborator Eva Silverstein
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Eva Silverstein, Stanford University
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018