KITP News Archive

Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters

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

Curious Properties

KITP Researchers analyze flocking behavior on curved surfaces
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2017

Charles T. Munger Residence Inauguration

At the Inauguration, Chancellor Henry T. Yang presented Charlie Munger with the Santa Barbara Medal, the highest honor UCSB bestows on a friend of the University, which was inscribed with the following message...
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Kristi Newton, Development Officer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2017

Hearing: A Biophysical and Neurological Enigma

Humans harbor an extraordinary auditory capacity: the cocktail party effect. We can tune out background noise in a room full of conversation and focus on the speaker we intend to converse with. We can tune out the constant tick-tock of a clock in a room just as we can ignore a car’s motor running while driving. At the same time, we can instantly tell when a car makes a peculiar noise or a glass breaks at a dinner party.
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Erin Haque, UCSB Daily Nexus
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2017

The Mysteries and Inner Workings of Massive Stars

On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the mergers of two black holes in a distant galaxy, ushering in the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics. This event has opened up a large range of questions that were addressed over the 11 weeks of the “The Mysteries and Inner Workings of Massive Stars” program in Spring 2017.
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Ilya Mandel, University of Birmingham
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2017

Residence Highlights

The Charles T. Munger Physics Residence officially opened on January 1, 2017 and is always full.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Inspiration in the Stars

Lars Bildsten wins the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Another Major Breakthrough

Joseph Polchinski wins prestigious 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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Shelly Leachman, UCSB Public Affairs & Communications
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Turbulence Mixes Up Particles and Physicists

The flows can be found everywhere
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Stephanie Pernett, UCSB Daily Nexus
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

International Kudos

Science academies in China and Russia recognize Nobel laureate David Gross for his continuing work in theoretical physics
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Stellar Simulators

Astrophysicists at KITP will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs & Communication
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Nuclear Physics in the Spotlight

From exploring nature’s most extreme environments to testing its most fundamental symmetries
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Zohreh Davoudi, MIT
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2017

Breaking Science Barriers: How the Munger Residence Makes a Difference

The recent KITP Program "Resurgent Asymptotics in Physics and Mathematics" benefited greatly from the Charles T. Munger Physics Residence. Many participants had taken part in previous KITP Programs, staying in random housing locations scattered around town, and all were amazed by the many differences made by the simple fact that the participants now live under the same roof.
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Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

Remembering Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking, who died Mar. 14 — Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day —had a brilliant mind and a puckish sense of humor
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

From a Burrito Bag to Science Magazine

It often takes a few years for KITP collaborations to yield
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Thomas Gasenzer, University of Heidelberg
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018