KITP News Archive

Professor W. Patrick McCray presents "Citizen-Scientists and the Dawn of the Space Age".

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The KITP is introducing its new online user interface called Herald for applying to programs and registering for conferences.

Professor Nathan Lewis presents "Challenges for Global Energy".
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Professor Robert Kirshner presents "Einstein's Blunder Undone - the discovery of cosmic acceleration".
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Julian Nott, celebrated aeronaut, on scientific explorations with modern ballooning, including Saturn's moon Titan.
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The institute announces Volume 2, Number 1, the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of the KITP Newsletter (PDF), written and edited by Jacquelyn Savani and designed by Charmien Carrier. News and stories include the Rapid Response to Supersolidity, and Matthew Fisher's Quantum Choreography Inside Crystals.

A mini-workshop: "Interdisciplinarity and Discipline in Education," coordinated by Phil Nelson, Rob Phillips and Boris Shraiman will be held on Sunday June 11th in the KITP Auditorium - UCSB Kohn Hall Room 1403.

Friend to the Institute and a member of its community board, The Director's Council.

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Scientists use bill tracking data collected at a popular internet game site to quantify the movement of individuals within the United States.

The Academy of Arts & Sciences has elected philanthropist Fred Kavli to the 2006 class of Fellows.

Santa Barbara, Calif.--Joseph G. Polchinski, professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), has been named 2007 recipient of the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Alain Karma, "Bringing Order to Chaotic Hearts", July 26th in the KITP Main Seminar Room. RSVP info forthcoming.
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Lisa Randall, noted Harvard Physicist and author of the new book "Warped Passages" will be giving a talk at 7:30PM, December 5th at the Lobero Theater. Tickets are $19.
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George Johnson, science writer for the New York Times and author of 6 acclaimed books on topics and people in physics, is Journalist-in-Residence during October and November 2006 at the KITP. Watch for his Friday workshops.

The Kavli Foundation and Harvard University have agreed to establish the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology (KIBST).
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Santa Barbara, Calif.--Joseph G. Polchinski, professor of physics at at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was cited as one of the "leading field and string theorists of his generation, contributing many significant ideas to both quantum field theory and to string theory."

Santa Barbara, Calif. - David J. Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the first incumbent of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving in 1973 the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called "the Standard Model" of the quantum mechanical picture of reality. He and his co-recipients discovered how the nucleus of atoms works.

Santa Barbara, Calif.--For 10 years the key landmark for arrivals at the principal entrance to the ocean-side campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been the flat-topped, orange tower of Kohn Hall, home of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), celebrating its 25-year existence under the aegis of the National Science Foundation (NSF) with an international conference on "The Future of Physics," from Oct. 7 to 9.

Santa Barbara, Calif. - David J. Gross, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the first incumbent of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving in 1973 the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called "the Standard Model" of the quantum mechanical picture of reality. He and his co-recipients discovered how the nucleus of atoms works.