KITP News Archive

Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters

Enhancing Research

The KITP launches a fellowship for physics faculty at minority-serving institutions
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Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

KITP Postdoc Runs the Planetarium!

Participants in KITP’s programs and fellowships are offered an array of activities that encourage working on cross-disciplinary topics with an international community of leading scientists.
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

KITP and Me

It all started in 1990 when I was attempting the transition from particle theory to condensed matter theory.
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Professor Ramamurti Shankar
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

A Flicker From the Dark

Reading between the lines to model our galaxy’s central black hole
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Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

Director's Letter - Fall 2022

I have many highlights to share this fall.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2022

KITP Announces Research Programs for 2023-2024

Working with KITP’s Advisory Board and the international physics community, KITP has developed new programs for the 2023-2024 academic year. Applications are now open for participation in all programs. View upcoming 2023-2024 programs and apply at https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/programs.

Now Accepting Applications for Postdocs in Quantum Materials Theory

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara expects to appoint Postdoctoral Scholars in theoretical physics, beginning September 1, 2023. For more information, and to apply, please visit Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22474. Apply by November 1, 2022 for primary consideration.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/SARS-CoV-2_Covid-19.

Now Accepting Applications for Postdocs in Theoretical Physics

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara expects to appoint Postdoctoral Scholars in theoretical physics, beginning September 1, 2023. For more information, and to apply, please visit Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22377. Apply by November 15, 2022 for primary consideration.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a condition of employment, you will be required to comply with the University of California SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccination Program Policy https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/5000695/SARS-CoV-2_Covid-19.

Enhancing Research

The KITP launches a fellowship for physics faculty at minority-serving institutions.
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KITP Spring 2022 Newsletter

The Spring 2022 KITP Newsletter is now available!
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Quantum estuary

The KITP fosters science as a nature reserve fosters an ecosystem.
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Nicole Yunger Halpern
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2022

Colliding in Harmony

KITP Postdoctoral Scholars Helped Create a New Field in Physics
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Maggie Sherriffs and Megan Turley
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2022

Celebrating the Dedication of the Simons Amphitheater at Kohn Hall

Named in honor of Jim and Marilyn Simons and the Simons Foundation with gratitude for their generous, steadfast support of KITP.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2022

Quantum Zeta Epiphany

KITP Postdoc finds a new approach to a mathematical enigma
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Harrison Tasoff
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2022

Director's Letter - Spring 2022

KITP continues to provide scientists from around the world the opportunity to interact again here at Kohn Hall and the Munger Physics Residence.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2022

A Flicker From the Dark

While light cannot escape a black hole, the bright glow of rapidly orbiting gas has its own unique flicker. In a recent paper submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters, UC Santa Barbara’s Sean Ressler, Lena Murchikova at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chris White at Princeton University were able to use this subtle flickering to construct the most accurate model to date of our own galaxy’s central black hole — Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) — providing insight into properties such as its structure and motion. (Read more.)

A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws

For three decades, researchers hunted in vain for new elementary particles that would have explained why nature looks the way it does. As physicists confront that failure, they’re reexamining a longstanding assumption: that big stuff consists of smaller stuff.
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KITP Postdoctoral Scholar Grant Remmen explores new approach to the Riemann hypothesis

Grant Remmen believes he has a new approach for exploring the quirks of the zeta function. He has found an analogue that translates many of the function’s important properties into quantum field theory. (Read more.)

Director's Letter - Spring 2021

Now one year past the onset of the pandemic, KITP is set to re-open, hopefully by Fall 2021.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP 2021 Spring Newsletter

On the Hunt for Gravitons

KITP co-founder proposes a new approach in the search for the elusive graviton
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Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2021