KITP News Archive

Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters

FACTS

An international collaboration to advance condensed matter physics
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by Lucile Savary, FACTS Director, CNRS Permanent Researcher
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

Astrophysical Simulators Team Up to Better Understand Binaries and Disks

In the Spring of 2022, KITP hosted the program Bridging the Gap: Accretion and Orbital Evolution in Stellar and Black Hole Binaries.
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by Paul Duffell, Professor, Purdue University
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

A Shot in the Dark

Researching one of the most puzzling unsolved problems in physics
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by Kristi Newton, Senior Director of Development, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

A New Resource for KITP Postdoctoral Scholars

Establishing a permanent legacy and named endowment in honor of Glen H. Mitchel, Jr.
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by Kristi Newton, Senior Director of Development, KITP
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

Director's Letter - Spring 2025

The banner image is a rendering of KITP House, our newest project aimed at enhancing collaborative science for the next century by providing housing for our postdoctoral scholars, graduate fellows and long-term sabbatical visitors.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2025

Spring 2025 KITP Newsletter

The Spring 2025 KITP Newsletter is now available! Read more.

Continuing to enhance the physics community

The prestigious postdoctoral scholars program at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) has served as a career launchpad for scores of prominent physicists. The highly competitive program receives over 700 applications for the 3–5 positions that open each year.
Those few spots will likely be even more sought after when KITP unveils its new and rare means of support for its postdocs: a dedicated housing facility.
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Café KITP: Tuesday, April 15 @ 6:00 PM

Dark Matter: Discovering the Invisible Universe
Join KITP Postdoctoral Scholar Amalia Madden to explore the compelling evidence for dark matter, discuss why understanding it is essential to uncovering the history of our Universe, and learn how researchers today are designing innovative experiments to reveal its hidden nature. Learn more about Café KITP.

2025 BSLA in Physics awarded to Professor David Gross

Professor David Gross honored with the 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award in Physics, by the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), for the discovery of asymptotic freedom and other pioneering contributions to elementary particle physics and string theory. Read more.

KITP Public Lecture: Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 6:00 PM

Professor Lance Dixon presents "Voyage from Outer Space to Inner Space: From Gravitational Waves to the Higgs Boson"  learn more and join us for this lecture: RSVP in-person or register to watch online.

Now accepting applications for a Permanent Member at KITP

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks applications for a Permanent Member with an anticipated start of Fall 2025. The KITP contributes to all areas of theoretical physics through its programs, conferences, and the research of the permanent members, postdoctoral scholars and graduate fellows. The finalist recommended for hire will be offered a joint appointment as a member of the KITP, and as a tenured ladder faculty member of the University of California, Santa Barbara's Physics Department. All fields of theoretical physics are being considered.

Duties of a Permanent Member are to carry out research, provide scientific leadership for the Institute, and mentor KITP’s early-career scientists. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service as appropriate to the position.

To apply, please visit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02855

Physicists work toward theory to describe pattern formation in conserved fields

When it’s time for an E. coli bacterium to divide, proteins inside the single-celled organism start to chase each other around.
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs, Senior Science Writer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024

Building Systems of Support

Scientific excellence drives all of KITP’s endeavors, and it is achieved through unfettered intellectual exchanges between each scientist who visits.
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024

Streaming Instability: Bringing Dust Particles and Scientists Together

The Earth and other planets started out as particles of dust in the disk of a young star.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024

Free to Speculate

The convergence of physics and biology has enriched contemporary science research, even leading to new fields like evolutionary cell biology...
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024

Nature at the Munger Physics Residence

Over the last seven years that the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence has been housing KITP’s visiting researchers, an unexpected member of the community has become a local celebrity among the building’s staff and guests.
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024

Director's Letter - Fall 2024

We celebrated 30 years in Kohn Hall this summer.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2024

Fall 2024 KITP Newsletter

The Fall 2024 KITP Newsletter is now available! Read more.

Café KITP: Tuesday, November 19 @ 6:00 PM

Physics with a twist: The new world of moiré materials
Dive into the wonderful and rapidly developing physics of moiré materials with KITP Postdoctoral Scholar Tessa Cookmeyer.
About Café KITP.