News Archive

I had the distinct privilege of working closely with Glen Mitchel and Charlie Munger to design and build the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence. 
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Summer 2024

The banner image displays how KITP programs create collaboration networks. One of the institute’s most important goals is curating events where scientists who would otherwise not have the chance to interact in a significant way can spend enough time together to form scientific connections. 
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Summer 2024

When it’s time for an e. coli bacterium to divide, proteins inside the single-celled organism start to chase each other around. 
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Physicists Cristina Marchetti and Mark Bowick develop design rules that take advantage of topological defects to control flows in active fluids. 
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Professor Clifford V. Johnson presents "Living in the Matrix: Recent Advances in Understanding Quantum Spacetime" — learn more and join us for this lecture: RSVP in-person or register to watch online. 

Physicists from around the country converged at UC Santa Barbara for two days of talks and camaraderie in memory of esteemed physicist Professor Jim Hartle
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The Fall 2023 KITP Newsletter is now available!
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Support for KITP’s early-career scientists 
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by Jillian Tempesta, Associate Director of Content Strategy, UCSB Development
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2023

We have had the pleasure of engaging many artists over time to enhance KITP’s intellectual environment with their wonderfully inspirational pieces. One such artist is Joel Sansone...
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by Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2023

In my graduate career, I observed many KITP lectures and outreach events; however, my Ph.D. is not in Physics, but in Theater and Performance Studies. 
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by Cole Remmen, UCSB, Ph.D. 2023
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2023

The banner image is from our October 5, 2023 pre-picnic soccer match between the two programs that were in residence that day. 
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2023

Consider the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis, a tiny crustacean with some interesting attributes. 
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By Sonia Fernandez, Senior Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2023

Now is the time to submit program pre-proposals or full proposals for the 2025-2026 academic year. KITP activities consist of 2-4 month focused research programs. "Pre-proposal" submissions need not be elaborate — a title, at least two paragraphs explaining the idea, suggestions for organizers and key program participants, and an indication of whether you will desire a four day conference as part of the program is adequate. Members of the KITP and the Advisory Board will review these pre-proposals, encourage the development of promising ones into full proposals, and guide coordination of proposals in related areas.

Program planning proceeds through Fall 2023 and reaches preliminary conclusions in early February 2024. Submissions will be of greatest use if they arrive by November 1, 2023.

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks applications for a Permanent Member with a start date as soon as January 1, 2024. For more information, and to apply, please visit: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02521. 

When I told my friends about my 8-week visit to KITP, the running joke became that I was at 'physics summer camp'. 
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by Louise Edwards, Associate Professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo & 2022-2023 KITP Fellow
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

Physicists gather at KITP to chart a path for the next kind of particle collider
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by Harrison Tasoff, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

Repeat visitors often come to recognize more and more familiar faces with each visit, especially those of KITP’s dedicated staff, like Systems Administrator Craig Kunimoto...
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Demi Cain, KITP Development Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

Research by KITP program participants aids our understanding of natural disasters
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Katherine Unger Baillie, Senior Science News Officer, University of Pennsylvania
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023

As KITP’s Director for 15 years, David Gross led a remarkable expansion of KITP’s activities...
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2023