KITP News Archive
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
KITP hosts physics café to begin an ongoing dialogue between physicists and the public
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bolsters Research Connections
Program draws professors who teach at primarily undergraduate institutions
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally
Tarun Grover outlines how this unique phenomenon occurs in a condensed matter system
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Investing in the KITP
With $65 million gift, business titan Charlie Munger invests in Residence for KITP Visitors
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Shelly Leachman, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Professor Polchinski Wins 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize
Theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski is recognized for work that has advanced the understanding of string theory
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Funding Boosts Quantum Materials Theory Research
KITP to receive $1.5 million over five years to support Moore postdoctoral scholars
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
The Dynamics of Morphogenesis
New approaches to quantifying how animals acquire shape and form
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
KITP Residence Designed to LEED Specifications
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.
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Research Reunions
A new program enables visiting scientists to return to UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics to work together again in small groups
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Julie Cohen, 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
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
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
Moving the Internet
Residence Project Required a Delicate Operation
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Matt Erickson, UCSB ETS Communications & Outreach Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Going International
KITP Graduate Fellows Program grows to include students from foreign institutions
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Tissue Cartography
Postdoctoral scholars have developed a way to reduce dynamic bio-image data to 2-D
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Magnetic Hide and Seek
Researchers develop a new technique to detect magnetic fields inside stars
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Importance of the Family Fund to Visiting Scientists
Because it takes extended interactions to substantively explore ideas together and do collaborative work, visits of several weeks to entire academic years are integral to the success of our programs. The Family Fund is a crucial resource for enabling scientists to make these extended visits to the KITP.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Program Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
The Nose Knows
Collaboration among international scientists is helping to resolve questions about the sense of smell
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
A Cutting-Edge Research Tool
Summer school teaches astrophysicists how to use an open source computational code
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016