Featured Newsletter Articles
Articles curated from our KITP Newsletters archive, please click the article's title or image to read the featured story.
From Earth to the Stars
NASA engineer and Finance entrepreneur David Brown has big dreams for KITPRead more
An Artistic Dimension
KITP’s longtime artist in residence complements scientific inquiry with artistic creativity.Read more
Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020
A* Model
Physicists' innovative model provides insight into the behavior of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.Read more
Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020
Behind the Scenes
Financial Assistant Lori Staggs Makes Focusing on Science Easy at KITPRead more
Susie Groves, Assistant to the Director, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020
Spinning Up a Solution for Spin Liquids
Physicists model an exotic phase of matter in an attempt to solve a decades-old debate.Read more
Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UC Santa Barbara Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020
Director's Letter - Fall 2020
The banner image shows the excellent KITP staff during a weekly staff meeting on Zoom. Led by our most able and always spirited Chief Administrative Officer, Lisa Stewart, KITP's staff have gone above and beyond over the last eight months to keep KITP front and center for the international physics community.Read more
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020
Gravity in the Time of Corona
Just over twenty years ago, a physics major approached me after class and said he had a non-physics question. Carlos, a bright, young man from Texas, had trekked to San Francisco for his college experience, pulled by our Jesuit university’s call to nudge, cajole, or push the world toward a more humane future.Read more
Brandon R. Brown, Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, University of San Francisco and KITP Writer-in-Residence
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2020
A Flash and a Shudder
Theoretical Work Predicts Unusual Oscillations
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Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2020