News Archive
Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
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.
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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.
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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)
KITP Fall 2016 Newsletter Now Available
The Fall 2016 KITP Newsletter has now been released!
Fall 2016 Newsletter
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.
UCSB Press Release
Stellar Simulators
Astrophysicists at KITP will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017
Cosmic Connection
KITP’s Greg Huber worked with nuclear physicists to confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars.
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.
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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. Winter 2016 Newsletter
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
A KITP program participant explains how math used in sewing and knitting also describes cosmic curvature
Read moreJulie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
