KITP News Archive
KITP Public Lecture: Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Professor Saul Teukolsky presents "Black Holes & Gravitational Waves - Was Einstein Right?"
Star + Star = ?
The next Café KITP at SOhO features visiting KITP astrophysicist Josiah Schwab. Join him over dinner and drinks as he gives us a tour of the many kinds of stellar mergers and the varied ways in which astronomers and astrophysicists observe them. The event is on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
Theory institute opens residence hall for visitors
A Protein Magic Trick: Molecular Action at a Distance?
The next Café KITP at SOhO features Le Yan. Join him over dinner and drinks as he discusses the function and structure of proteins and explains how they can perform action at a distance. The event is on Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 8:00 PM
Nigel Goldenfeld presents "Beyond Chaos: The Continuing Enigma of Turbulence
Lars Bildsten receives the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
KITP Director Lars Bildsten was just named the 2017 awardee of the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics given jointly by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
Joe Polchinski awarded Breakthrough Prize
Joe Polchinski, KITP Permanent Member and the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Professor of Theoretical Physics was named a recipient of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in San Francisco on December 4, 2016.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Professor Immanuel Bloch presents "Realizing Feynman’s Dream of a Quantum Simulator"
Is There a Galactic Fog?
The next Café KITP at SOhO features Mike McCourt. Join him over dinner and drinks as he discusses gas clouds in the darkest reaches of galaxies and explains how they can be understood as a cosmic analog of fog. The event is on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
Things that go bump in the light: Discovering particles at the LHC
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Sophie Renner. Join her over dinner and drinks as she discusses the bumps in the light and clues us in to new particles that may make the Higgs look like chopped liver. The event is on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
Professor Walter Kohn, ITP's Founding Director, Has Passed Away
I am sad to share the news that Professor Walter Kohn, ITP's Founding Director, has passed away.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Professor Zvi Bern presents "Do I have to draw you a diagram? A tale of quantum gravity"
The Age of Entanglement
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Tim Hsieh. Join him over dinner and drinks as he wrestles with the mysterious nature of quantum entanglement and highlights its increasingly central role in future computers, new phases of matter, and the actual nature of spacetime itself. The event is on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
KITP Winter 2016 Newsletter now Available
The Winter 2016 KITP Newsletter has now been released! The Fall 2016 issue should arrive in October 2016.
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
Physicist Sabetta Matsumoto, a visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), unpacked the math of curvature in easily understandable terms in her presentation "Purls of Wisdom". Her talk, part of the ongoing science series Café KITP, addressed the geometry and topology used in sewing garments and knitting clothes.