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Articles curated from our KITP Newsletters archive, please click the article's title or image to read the featured story.

Physics of disaster: How mudslides move

Research by KITP program participants aids our understanding of natural disasters
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Katherine Unger Baillie, Senior Science News Officer, University of Pennsylvania
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

KITP’s Secret Weapon

Repeat visitors often come to recognize more and more familiar faces with each visit, especially those of KITP’s dedicated staff, like Systems Administrator Craig Kunimoto...
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

Director's Letter - Spring 2023

As KITP’s Director for 15 years, David Gross led a remarkable expansion of KITP’s activities...
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

A Muon Accelerator

Physicists gather at KITP to chart a path for the next kind of particle collider
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by Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

A Fellow’s First Winter at KITP Summer Camp

When I told my friends about my 8-week visit to KITP, the running joke became that I was at 'physics summer camp'.
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by Louise Edwards, Associate Professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo & 2022-2023 KITP Fellow
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

KITP Postdoc Runs the Planetarium!

Participants in KITP’s programs and fellowships are offered an array of activities that encourage working on cross-disciplinary topics with an international community of leading scientists.
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

Enhancing Research

The KITP launches a fellowship for physics faculty at minority-serving institutions
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Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

Director's Letter - Fall 2022

I have many highlights to share this fall.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022