News Archive
Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
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Director's Letter - Fall 2005
2004-05 has been an exciting year for the KITP.
Read moreDavid Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005 -
Director's Letter - Spring 2006
This spring we have run two programs that get to the heart of quantum mechanics.
Read moreDavid Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006 -
Director's Letter - Spring 2007
At the end of May, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC) was inaugurated in Beijing in a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People.
Read moreDavid Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2007 -
Director's Letter - Winter 2009
Last April the KITP was reviewed by the NSF in a midterm review of our five-year contract.
Read moreDavid Gross, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2009 -
Director's Letter - Fall 2015
We have had a very exciting and productive start this year!
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015 -
Director's Letter - Winter 2015
2014 was quite the year for KITP.
Read moreLars 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...
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016 -
Director's Letter - Winter 2016
Construction continues apace, and you can actively monitor our progress...
Read moreLars 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.
Read moreLars 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.
Read moreLars 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.
Read moreLars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018 -
Director's Letter - Fall 2019
Fall is the time of change.
Read moreLars 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.
Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019 -
Understanding the Brain
The Ultimate Interdisciplinary Rendezvous?
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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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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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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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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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Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
With Shraiman’s Appointment, Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
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