KITP News Archive

KITP Public Lecture: Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8:00 pm

Star + Star = ?

A Protein Magic Trick: Molecular Action at a Distance?

Lars Bildsten receives the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

KITP Fall 2016 Newsletter Now Available

KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 8:00 PM

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.   UCSB Press Release

International Kudos

Stellar Simulators

Astrophysicists Matteo Cantiello and Yan-Fei Jiang at KITP will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars. The pair have been awarded 120 million CPU hours over two years on the supercomputer Mira — the sixth-fastest computer in the world — through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. 

Cosmic Connection

KITP’s Greg Huber worked with nuclear physicists to confirm a structural similarity found in both human cells and neutron stars.

Is There a Galactic Fog?

The next Café KITP at SOhO features Mike McCourt. Join him over dinner and drinks as he discusses gas clouds in the darkest reaches of galaxies and explains how they can be understood as a cosmic analog of fog. The event is on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.

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KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 8:00 pm

Professor Immanuel Bloch presents "Realizing Feynman’s Dream of a Quantum Simulator"

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KITP Seeks A Deputy Director

Things that go bump in the light: Discovering particles at the LHC

The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Sophie Renner. Join her over dinner and drinks as she discusses the bumps in the light and clues us in to new particles that may make the Higgs look like chopped liver. The event is on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.

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Professor Walter Kohn, ITP's Founding Director, Has Passed Away

I am sad to share the news that Professor Walter Kohn, ITP's Founding Director, has passed away.

KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:00 pm

Professor Zvi Bern presents "Do I have to draw you a diagram? A tale of quantum gravity"

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The Age of Entanglement

The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Tim Hsieh. Join him over dinner and drinks as he wrestles with the mysterious nature of quantum entanglement and highlights its increasingly central role in future computers, new phases of matter, and the actual nature of spacetime itself. The event is on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 6-7pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.

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KITP Winter 2016 Newsletter now Available

The Winter 2016 KITP Newsletter has now been released! The Fall 2016 issue should arrive in October 2016.

[Winter 2016 Newsletter]

The Universe in the Heel of a Sock

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.

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KITP Public Lecture: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 8:00 pm

Professor Curt G. Callan presents "The Biological Future of Theoretical Physics"

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