KITP News Archive
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Professor Curt G. Callan presents "The Biological Future of Theoretical Physics"
Café KITP: Purls of wisdom
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Elisabetta Matsumoto. Join her over dinner and drinks as she takes a sock’s eye view of geometry and topology and walks you through an evening of fun with fabric.
Magnetic Fields Prevalent in Stellar Interiors
A group of astronomers - including Matteo Cantiello and Lars Bildsten from UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) -has discovered that strong magnetic fields are very common in stars.
Going International
The Graduate Fellows Program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics has grown to include students from foreign institutions.
Café KITP: Black Holes, Quantum Tunneling and String Theory
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Francisco Rojas. He will speak on Black Holes, Quantum Tunneling and String Theory. The event is Monday, November 30, 2015, 6:00 – 7:00 pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
KITP Postdocs Enable Cartography of Embryo Tissues
Two postdoctoral scholars from UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics have developed a way to reduce dynamic bio-image data to two dimensions.
Magnetic Hide and Seek
Researchers at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics develop a new technique to detect magnetic fields inside stars.
Café KITP: Supernova Hunters
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Iair Arcavi. He will speak on Supernova Hunters.
SOhO is located at 1221 State St., 2nd floor. The event is Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.
KITP Fall 2015 Newsletter now Available
Director Lars Bildsten is happy to announce the release of the Fall 2015 KITP Newsletter. He expects to release such a Newsletter twice a year, with the next one arriving in February 2016.
Astrophysicists come to UCSB to learn about stars
Over thirty scientists spent a week learning how to use Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), an open-source computational tool developed by Bill Paxton here at KITP.
Olfaction at KITP
KITP program on "Deconstructing the Sense of Smell" brought together theoretical neuroscientists and experimental biologists to unravel the complex mechanisms that underlie the behavioral response to odors.
Together to discuss the chemical, molecular, cellular, circuit and systems mechanisms that underlie neural and behavioral responses to odor.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Professor Randy Schekman presents "How Cells Package and Traffic Proteins for Export"
Postdoc Iair Arcavi received the 2015 Karp Discovery Award
Arcavi, a joint postdoctoral scholar at KITP and the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network will now be able to search for additional evidence of the complete shredding of stars that happen to pass near the supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies.
KITP Winter 2015 Newsletter now Available
Director Lars Bildsten is happy to announce the release of the Winter 2015 KITP Newsletter. He expects to release such a Newsletter twice a year, with the next one arriving in August 2015.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 8:00 pm
Professor Conny Aerts presents "Starquakes and Exoplanets in the Milky Way"
Bildsten, Morrison, and Zee elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
Three physics faculty, Lars Bildsten, KITP Director and Professor of Physics, David Morrison, Chair of the Math Department and Professor of Math and Physics, and Tony Zee, Professor of Physics, were recently designated as Fellows of the American Physical Society.
Resistance
Microscopic footage, harrowing personal stories, and expert insights propel "Resistance," the story of antibiotic resistance, starting from the mass production of antibiotics 70 years ago, to their incipient failure in the 21st century. In conjunction with the on-going KITP program on "Evolution of Drug Resistance," this discussion and film screening will bring together researchers from the medical, biological, and physical sciences to delve into the mechanisms and dynamics of drug resistance. A panel discussion with KITP visiting scientists and the filmmaker Michael Graziano will precede screening, Q&A will follow.
Café KITP: The Choreography of Cells
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Sebastian Streichan. He will speak on The Choreography of Cells. The event is Tuesday evening, October 14, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Moore foundation supports Moore Foundation Scholars in quantum materials theory
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $1.5M to support independent post-PhD researchers at the KITP studying emergent quantum phenomena in materials.
Charlie Munger Invests $65,000,000 to Build a Residence for KITP's Visitors
Charlie Munger has announced his $65,000,000 donation to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. This donation will be used to build and furnish a Residence for the KITP's visiting scientists. Designed with physicists in mind, this 75,000 square foot facility will house the majority of KITP's thousand yearly visitors and their families in a comfortable and intimate setting that inspires informal scientific interactions. The visitor offices and intense collaborative interactions that are the hallmark of KITP's mission will, of course, remain in Kohn Hall.