KITP News Archive
Entanglement Bridges the Gap at KITP
Gravity, quantum information, and condensed matter find common ground
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Roger Melko, KITP ENTANGLED15 Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
Monica Curry’s Legacy
With her support, visiting scientists hit the ground running upon arrival
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Lisa Skvarla, UCSB Development
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
A Black Hole Enigma
Physics postdoctoral scholar Iair Arcavi will use the Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award to learn more about supermassive black holes
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
Biology Meets Geometry
KITP deputy director Greg Huber collaborates with colleagues to describe the geometry of a common cellular structure
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
At KITP: Report from a Writer-in-Residence
“Art is I, science is we,” wrote the nineteenth-century physiologist Claude Bernard.
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Graham Farmelo, KITP Writer-in-Residence
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
Teaching the Teachers
A new program allows science educators to participate in a cutting-edge information exchange
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2015
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
KITP hosts physics café to begin an ongoing dialogue between physicists and the public
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bolsters Research Connections
Program draws professors who teach at primarily undergraduate institutions
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally
Tarun Grover outlines how this unique phenomenon occurs in a condensed matter system
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Investing in the KITP
With $65 million gift, business titan Charlie Munger invests in Residence for KITP Visitors
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Shelly Leachman, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Professor Polchinski Wins 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize
Theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski is recognized for work that has advanced the understanding of string theory
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
Funding Boosts Quantum Materials Theory Research
KITP to receive $1.5 million over five years to support Moore postdoctoral scholars
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
The Dynamics of Morphogenesis
New approaches to quantifying how animals acquire shape and form
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2015
KITP Residence Designed to LEED Specifications
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.
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Research Reunions
A new program enables visiting scientists to return to UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics to work together again in small groups
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
Getting Ready for the Precision Frontier at the LHC
High-energy physics has entered a new era of discovery as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory has begun colliding protons at an energy almost 7 times greater than the best previous machine.
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Radja Bougezhal, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello, Laura Reina, and Doreen Wackeroth;
LHC Run II and the Precision Frontier Program Coordinators
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
See you in the Smellyverse
Olfaction is the final frontier of our senses, the one that is still mysterious to us. Despite large amounts of genetic, physiological, and perceptual data, many fundamental questions about our sense of smell remain unresolved.
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Alexei Koulakov, Deconstructing the Sense of Smell Program Coordinator
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
In Memoriam: Dr. Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn saw the very worst the world has to offer — and he also saw the very best
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Shelly Leachman and Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
A KITP program participant explains how math used in sewing and knitting also describes cosmic curvature
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
Moving the Internet
Residence Project Required a Delicate Operation
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Matt Erickson, UCSB ETS Communications & Outreach Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016