News Archive
Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters
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Biological Physics
How Do Physics and Biology Go Together?
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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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Newly Devised Test May Soon Confirm Strings As Fundamental Constituent of Matter, Energy
KITP Program Heralds Birth of String Cosmology
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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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World’s Top Theoretical Physicists Converge to Consider ‘Future of Physics’
Celebrating 25 Years of Santa Barbara as a Theoretical Physics Center
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Solid-State Physics: Quantum Choreography Inside Crystals
Fisher Frames History of Field for Focus on Strongly Correlated Electrons
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High School Teachers Need Physics Now
Some 70 teachers of physics came from throughout the United States to the KITP’s fifth conference for high school teachers — this one on “Nanoscience and Quantum Computing.”
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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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Topological Quantum Computing: The Devil is Not in the Details
"Interdisciplinary" is a word that has gotten a lot of press in the past decade’s reporting on prospects for scientific discovery...
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Thinking About Thinking About Quantum Mechanics
Possible Good News for Aging Quantum Physicists
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Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP
In the spring of 1997, former graduate students at the UC San Diego invited Michael Freedman, a topologist awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, to give a talk at Microsoft Research. At the conclusion of that talk, an employee then there, physicist Nathan Myrvold, offered Freedman a job to work, more or less, on whatever he wanted.
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How to Tell a Fermion From a Boson
All particles in three-dimensional space are either bosons or fermions. What distinguishes one from the other is not a simple matter...
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Rapid Response to Supersolidity: ‘Is It There or Is It Not?’ May Be the Answer as Well as the Question
“O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”
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Coordinating Housing Resembles 3-Dimensional Chess
Director David Gross is accustomed to explaining the logistics of KITP operations to audiences around the world who wish to emulate it as a retreat facility for scientific research.
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Observers of Star-Forming Confer With Its Simulators
Within the “Star Formation ” program, Alyssa Goodman, of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ran a workshop on large surveys of nearby star formation regions.
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How Do Stars Form? Differently, at Different Cosmic Times
How rapidly do stars form? What explains the distribution of the mass of the stars that form?
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How Brains Think About Themselves When They Come Together to Consider That Question Systematically
How have brains been optimized over the course of evolution to be very good at what they do? How have evolutionary forces and natural selection shaped brain architecture?
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What Is Special About the KITP Mode For Doing Science?
The KITP enables scientists to interact in a way that differs significantly from the ways provided by the customary venues for interaction, as the following account shows.
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Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter
Condensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
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Inside the Virtual World of the KITP
‘A Wonderland of Far-Seeing on the Web’
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