KITP News Archive

Articles about KITP and featured articles from KITP newsletters

Polchinski Elected To National Academy of Sciences

Joseph G. Polchinski, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and KITP permanent member, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences at the annual spring meeting.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

New Kohn Hall Proves Whole Can Be More Than Sum Of Old and New Parts

Michael Graves Executes Design to Enhance Collaborations Among Physicists
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

KITP Director Awarded 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

DAVID J. GROSS, director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for solving the last great remaining problem of what has since come to be called “the Standard Model” of the quantum mechanical picture of reality.
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KITP Newsletter, Fall 2005

Solid-State Physics: Quantum Choreography Inside Crystals

Fisher Frames History of Field for Focus on Strongly Correlated Electrons
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

High School Teachers Need Physics Now

Some 70 teachers of physics came from throughout the United States to the KITP’s fifth conference for high school teachers — this one on “Nanoscience and Quantum Computing.”
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

Topological Quantum Computing: The Devil is Not in the Details

"Interdisciplinary" is a word that has gotten a lot of press in the past decade’s reporting on prospects for scientific discovery...
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP

In the spring of 1997, former graduate students at the UC San Diego invited Michael Freedman, a topologist awarded the Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture, to give a talk at Microsoft Research. At the conclusion of that talk, an employee then there, physicist Nathan Myrvold, offered Freedman a job to work, more or less, on whatever he wanted.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

How to Tell a Fermion From a Boson

All particles in three-dimensional space are either bosons or fermions. What distinguishes one from the other is not a simple matter...
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2006

Coordinating Housing Resembles 3-Dimensional Chess

Director David Gross is accustomed to explaining the logistics of KITP operations to audiences around the world who wish to emulate it as a retreat facility for scientific research.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

Observers of Star-Forming Confer With Its Simulators

Within the “Star Formation ” program, Alyssa Goodman, of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, ran a workshop on large surveys of nearby star formation regions.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

How Do Stars Form? Differently, at Different Cosmic Times

How rapidly do stars form? What explains the distribution of the mass of the stars that form?
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

How Brains Think About Themselves When They Come Together to Consider That Question Systematically

How have brains been optimized over the course of evolution to be very good at what they do? How have evolutionary forces and natural selection shaped brain architecture?
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

What Is Special About the KITP Mode For Doing Science?

The KITP enables scientists to interact in a way that differs significantly from the ways provided by the customary venues for interaction, as the following account shows.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

Balents Becomes KITP Resident Expert In Hard Condensed Matter

Condensed matter physicist Leon Balents has been appointed a permanent member of the KITP.
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008

KITP Ranks First In Research Impact

How can the performance of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics be measured and assessed?
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KITP Newsletter, Spring 2008