KITP News Archive
Director's Letter - Fall 2016
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2016
Director's Letter - Winter 2016
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Lars Bildsten, KITP Director
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
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
Going International
KITP Graduate Fellows Program grows to include students from foreign institutions
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Tissue Cartography
Postdoctoral scholars have developed a way to reduce dynamic bio-image data to 2-D
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Magnetic Hide and Seek
Researchers develop a new technique to detect magnetic fields inside stars
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
Importance of the Family Fund to Visiting Scientists
Because it takes extended interactions to substantively explore ideas together and do collaborative work, visits of several weeks to entire academic years are integral to the success of our programs. The Family Fund is a crucial resource for enabling scientists to make these extended visits to the KITP.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Program Manager
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
The Nose Knows
Collaboration among international scientists is helping to resolve questions about the sense of smell
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
A Cutting-Edge Research Tool
Summer school teaches astrophysicists how to use an open source computational code
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Winter 2016
The Notorious Luminous Blue Variable Star
Yan-Fei Jiang and colleagues — Matteo Cantiello of the Flatiron Institute, Lars Bildsten of KITP, Eliot Quataert at UC Berkeley, Omer Blaes of UC Santa Barbara, and James Stone of Princeton — have now developed a three-dimensional simulation to reveal the inner workings of one of the universe’s most mysterious stars.
A New Wrinkle in Physics
KITP postdoctoral scholar pushes beyond the boundaries of physics with his Café KITP talk on the brain’s physical structure.
KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 8:00 PM
Nigel Goldenfeld presents "Beyond Chaos: The Continuing Enigma of Turbulence
Joe Polchinski awarded Breakthrough Prize
Joe Polchinski, KITP Permanent Member and the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Professor of Theoretical Physics was named a recipient of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in San Francisco on December 4, 2016.