KITP News Archive

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

An eclectic gathering at the KITP produces unexpected breakthroughs
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Roger Melko, University of Waterloo Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

KITP permanent member Leon Balents is appointed to the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Chair in Theoretical Physics
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

Joe Polchinski, who passed away Feb. 2, left a tremendous professional and personal legacy, says a friend and collaborator Eva Silverstein
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Eva Silverstein, Stanford University
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

KITP hosts a rapid-response program to explore myriad new astrophysical insights from a double neutron star merger
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Julie Cohen, Science Writer, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2018

KITP has fostered connections amongst scientific communities for almost 40 years through well-defined and extended-stay interactive scientific programs, and by allowing space and time for deep and lasting collaborative relationships to develop. On January 1, 2018, we added a new venue for connecting our visiting scientists, the global scientific community, and science enthusiasts when we launched the @KITP_UCSB Twitter account.
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Lisa Stewart, KITP Chief Administrative Officer
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

Supercomputing power and algorithms are helping astrophysicists untangle giant stars’ brightness, temperature and chemical variations.
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Sarah Webb, PhD, Senior Science Writer for Krell Institute
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

During the spring of 2018 particle physicists and astrophysicists gathered at KITP to participate in two complementary programs, one in the field of astrophysics and the other in the field of high energy physics. Both programs were aimed at shedding light on a puzzle that has excited a whole new generation of researchers.
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Professor Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist University
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

Dense suspensions are liquids that contain a large proportion of solid particles, and they exhibit a striking range of behaviors. Understanding this rich interplay of physics is at the frontier of the physics of “soft matter”, and formed the central theme of the “Physics of Dense Suspensions” program that took place at KITP in Spring 2018.
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Douglas J. Jerolmack, Professor of Geophysics at University of Pennsylvania
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

Professor Leon Balents was elected as a member of the 238th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April of 2018. His selection, along with two additional UCSB professors, brings the total number of UCSB faculty members named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to 37.
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Andrea Estrada, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

Nobel Prize laureate David Gross wanted to be the first to break the news to KITP Director Lars Bildsten. So, with apologies for the early hour, he phoned his colleague at 6:30 a.m. on May 1, 2018 to congratulate him for being elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
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Julie Cohen, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

Postdoctoral scholar pushes beyond the boundaries of physics with his Café KITP talk on the brain’s physical structure
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2018

My journey in Physics started in my home country of Cameroon, completing a Master in Physics at the University of Buea in 2013 on the modelling of nerve impulses in biological neural networks. I then obtained a postgraduate diploma scholarship to study Condensed Matter Physics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
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Estelle Inack, Perimeter Institute
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Ten years before the detection of gravitational waves, two KITP postdocs had a novel idea.
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Harrison Tasoff, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Each summer, the Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology runs alongside a KITP biology program, distinguishing itself by linking the program’s critical discussion and exploration of important theoretical topics to the lab projects.
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Honour McCann, Massey University’s New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

One of KITP’s goals is to bring together theorists and experimentalists with different expertise to intensively study important issues
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Jennifer Johnson, Ohio State University and Inese Ivans, University of Utah
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Our Fall 2018 KITP program “Chaos and Order: from Strongly Correlated Systems to Black Holes” was triggered by progress that occurred in two distinct steps over a period of more than twenty years. A paper in 1993 and a series of talks at KITP in 2015! These remarkable insights are now referred to as the SYK (Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev) model.
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Mark Bowick, KITP Deputy Director
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Scientists have known for a long time that nature is quantum, following physical principles — at the atomic and molecular levels — that to the naked eye would seem counterintuitive and downright surreal.
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Sonia Fernandez, UCSB Public Affairs
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

Carlos Marquez wasn’t too long returned from a four-year stint with the U.S. Army and looking for steady work when his brother referred him to his own employer, UC Santa Barbara. It’s a solid job, his brother promised, one he could settle into for a while.
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Shelly Leachman, The Current
KITP Newsletter, Spring 2019

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, new technologies were allowing biologists to generate massive amounts of data, but such data could be messy, and taking advantage of it demanded new quantitative tools.
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Maggie Sherriffs, KITP Special Programs & Evaluation Manager
KITP Newsletter, Fall 2019