KITP News Archive
Magnetic Fields Prevalent in Stellar Interiors
Monday, January 4, 2016
A group of astronomers - including Matteo Cantiello and Lars Bildsten from UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) -has discovered that strong magnetic fields are very common in stars.
Café KITP: Purls of wisdom
Geometry & topology in weavables, wearables and wallpaper
Friday, January 22, 2016
The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Elisabetta Matsumoto. Join her over dinner and drinks as she takes a sock’s eye view of geometry and topology and walks you through an evening of fun with fabric.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 8:00 pm
Friday, January 29, 2016
Professor Curt G. Callan presents "The Biological Future of Theoretical Physics"
The Universe in the Heel of a Sock
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Physicist Sabetta Matsumoto, a visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), unpacked the math of curvature in easily understandable terms in her presentation "Purls of Wisdom". Her talk, part of the ongoing science series Café KITP, addressed the geometry and topology used in sewing garments and knitting clothes.
KITP Winter 2016 Newsletter now Available
Friday, April 1, 2016
The Winter 2016 KITP Newsletter has now been released! The Fall 2016 issue should arrive in October 2016.