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KITP Newsletter • Fall 2015

Teaching the Teachers
A new program allows science educators to participate in a cutting-edge information exchange.

At KITP: report from a writer-in-residence
Art is I, science is we,” wrote the nineteenth-century physiologist Claude Bernard.

Biology Meets Geometry
KITP deputy director Greg Huber collaborates with colleagues to describe the geometry of a common cellular structure.

A Black Hole Enigma
Physics postdoctoral scholar Iair Arcavi will use the Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award to learn more about supermassive black holes.

Monica Curry’s Legacy
With her support, visiting scientists hit the ground running upon arrival.

Entanglement Bridges the Gap at KITP
Gravity, quantum information, and condensed matter find common ground.

Visiting Scholar Residence
Building Update

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KITP Newsletter • Winter 2015

The Dynamics of Morphogenesis
New approaches to quantifying how animals acquire shape and form

Funding Boosts Quantum Materials Theory Research
KITP to receive $1.5 milllion over five years to support Moore postdoctoral scholars

Professor Polchinski Wins 2014 Physics Frontiers Prize
Theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski is recognized for work that has advanced the understanding of string theory

With $65 million gift, business titan Charlie Munger invests in Residence for KITP Visitors

One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally
Tarun Grover outlines how this unique phenomenon occurs in condensed matter system

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bolsters Research Connections Program Draws professors who teach primarily undergraduate institutions

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
KITP hosts physics café to begin an ongoing dialogue between physicists and the public

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KITP Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1 • Winter 2009 – 2010

• Earths Climate: More Science Needed
• Likely Discovery of Faint and Fast Supernova Confirms Predicted Explosion
• In Honor of Mother, Son Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair In Theoretical Physics and Biology
• Letter from the Director
• Kachru and Silverstein Join KITP
• What Does Theoretical Physics Bring to Biology
• High Technology Emerges From Low Dimensional Electron Systems
• Graphene May Change the Way the World Works
• When Collaborators Are a Couple: Globular Clusters Provide Case Study
• Clouds Raise Many a Question, Including the Curious Case of Cover Consistency
• Novel Research Collaboration Leads to Discovery Of ‘Fire in the Earth System’
• Complexity Expert Plays Key Role Mixing Physics and Ecology

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KITP Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1 • Spring / Summer 2008

• Rice Endows Fund to Make KITP More Family Friendly
• KITP Ranks First in Research Impact
• The Virtual World of the KITP
• Special for Science
• New Permanent Member
• Brain Design Workshop
• Star Formation
• Coordinating Housing

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KITP Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 1 • Spring / Summer 2007

• Why Care About  Type I a Supernovae?
• From the Heart
• Scholars Program Infuses Vitality Into Research Efforts Of Physicists Who Mostly Teach Undergraduates
• From the Director
• String Phenomenology
• Dark Matter
• Stellar End Products
• Thermonuclear Explosions
• For Teachers

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KITP Newsletter, Vol. 2 No. 1 • Spring / Summer 2006

• Rapid Response to Supersolidity: ‘Is It There or Is It Not?’ May Be the Answer as Well as the Question
• Microsoft’s Quantum Research Project Headed by Mathematician Takes up Temporary Residence at KITP
• High  School  Teachers  Need  Physics  Now
• From the Director
• Solid-State Physics: Fisher Frames History of Field for Focus on Strongly Correlated Electrons
• Quantum  Choreography
• Inside Crystals
• Topological Quantum Computing

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KITP Newsletter, Vol. 1 No. 1 • Fall / Winter 2005

• KITP Director Awarded 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
• New Kohn Hall Proves Whole Can Be More Than Sum Of Old and New Parts
• Polchinski Elected To National Academy of Sciences
• Newly Devised Test May Soon Confirm Strings As Fundamental Constituent of Matter, Energy
• How Do Physics and Biology Go Together?
• With Shraiman’s Appointment Biological Physics Enters Permanent Ranks at KITP
• ‘How Is Birdsong Like a Tennis Serve?’ Asks Neuroscientist and Postdoctoral Fellow
• Eminent Biologist Embraces Physics
• ‘Understanding the Brain’: The Ultimate Interdisciplinary Rendezvous?
• Point of View: Physicists and Biologists Watch Fruitfly Movie
• Optimization: the Renewed Quest for a Physics of Biology
• Hunter Hosts Biological Physics Talk by Bill Bialek for Friends of KITP
• World’s Top Theoretical Physicists Converge to Consider ‘Future of Physics’