KITP News Archive

Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters

Director's Letter - Winter 2015

2014 was quite the year for KITP.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015

Director's Letter - Fall 2016

I am writing to you this Fall, as we complete construction of KITP’s new Residence...
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016

Director's Letter - Winter 2016

Construction continues apace, and you can actively monitor our progress...
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016

Director's Letter - Spring 2017

We housed our first physicists and their families in the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence on January 1, 2017.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Director's Letter - Fall 2018

I hope that by now you have seen our 2018 Impact Report, which is the first edition of what will become our annual report to all KITP supporters.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

Director's Letter - Spring 2018

I open this Newsletter with a heavy heart. Our good friend and colleague Joe Polchinski passed away in early February 2018. I’ve since had a chance to meet with his wife Dorothy and speak with her about Joe’s remarkable legacy across all of science.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

Director's Letter - Fall 2019

Fall is the time of change.
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019

Director's Letter - Spring 2019

Our cover image for the Spring Newsletter is from Gary Smaby, a long-time KITP friend and supporter. Read more

Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Understanding the Brain

The Ultimate Interdisciplinary Rendezvous?
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Optimization: the Renewed Quest for a Physics of Biology

One of the main missions of the KITP is to catalyze and to promote collaborations, the hallmark of 21-century science.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Point of View: Physicists and Biologists Watch Fruitfly Movie

An English literature professor remarked to his graduate students in a class on 20th century American novelists, “Point of view is everything in fiction.”
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Eminent Biologist Embraces Physics

Arnold Levine, a molecular biologist, and an authority on the molecular basis of cancer, gave one of the KITP 2005 Public Lectures on “Genetic Predispositions for Cancer in Humans.”
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

How Is Birdsong Like a Tennis Serve?

How the young bird learns song appears to bear a striking resemblance not only to how a human baby learns speech, but also to how general goal-directed behaviors involving fine muscle control are learned.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP

With Shraiman’s Appointment, Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Biological Physics

How Do Physics and Biology Go Together?
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Marking Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis

The Year of Physics celebrates the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s annus mirabilis of 1905 — the year he published three landmark papers (each in a different area of physics) that changed the course of physics forever, and radically altered human conceptions of reality.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Polchinski Elected To National Academy of Sciences

Joseph G. Polchinski, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and KITP permanent member, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences at the annual spring meeting.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005