Featured Newsletter Articles
Turbulence Mixes Up Particles and Physicists
The flows can be found everywhere
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Stephanie Pernett, UCSB Daily Nexus
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Director's Letter - Spring 2017
We housed our first physicists and their families in the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence on January 1, 2017.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Inspiration in the Stars
Lars Bildsten wins the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Nuclear Physics in the Spotlight
From exploring nature’s most extreme environments to testing its most fundamental symmetries
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Zohreh Davoudi, MIT
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
A KITP program participant explains how math used in sewing and knitting also describes cosmic curvature
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
See you in the Smellyverse
Olfaction is the final frontier of our senses, the one that is still mysterious to us. Despite large amounts of genetic, physiological, and perceptual data, many fundamental questions about our sense of smell remain unresolved.
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Alexei Koulakov, Deconstructing the Sense of Smell Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
In Memoriam: Dr. Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn saw the very worst the world has to offer — and he also saw the very best
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Shelly Leachman and Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
Getting Ready for the Precision Frontier at the LHC
High-energy physics has entered a new era of discovery as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory has begun colliding protons at an energy almost 7 times greater than the best previous machine.
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Radja Bougezhal, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello, Laura Reina, and Doreen Wackeroth;
LHC Run II and the Precision Frontier Program Coordinators
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016