Please Note: Do not make reservations online. You will not receive the KITP rate from online reservations. If you are traveling from overseas and need to make a hotel reservation at the Best Western South Coast Inn, please e-mail the Sales Director at: sales@santa-barbara-hotel.com. Mention the group you will be with (see chart below) to be given your discount.
A block of rooms has been set aside for the use of our conference participants at The Best Western South Coast Inn in Goleta, California—about 2-1/2 miles from the UCSB Campus. Transportation to/from KITP will be provided.
The hotel offers special rates to our participants, single or double same rate. Contact them directly at 1 (805) 967-3200 to make your reservation, do not make online reservations as you will not receive the KITP rate.
Mention your conference group code to receive the special rate.
Lodging must be reserved by the conference lodging deadline provided in the chart below. After that date rooms MAY BE available to you on a space- available basis at their regular rate. The Santa Barbara area has a large tourist population and it is important that you make your reservations early.
Lodging Information for Specific Conferences
| Conference | Hotel | Group Code | Nightly Rate | Reservation deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications | Best Western South Coast Inn | FINESTRUCTURE_C25 | Sun.–Thursday: $165, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 9/27/2025 |
| The Lifecycle of Stellar Black Holes | Best Western South Coast Inn | STELLARBH_C25 | Sun.–Thursday: $165, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 10/27/2025 |
| Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics | Best Western South Coast Inn | SOFTEARTH_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $169, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 12/8/2025 |
| New Synergies in Multi-Probe Cosmology | Best Western South Coast Inn | CMBLSS_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $169, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 1/6/2026 |
| Probing our Understanding of Quark-Gluon Matter | Best Western South Coast Inn | QUARKGLUON_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $169, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 3/2/2026 |
| 2026 Teachers Conference | Best Western South Coast Inn | TEACHER CONFERENCE | Sun.–Thursday: $169, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 3/5/2026 |
| Beyond Gate-Based Quantum Computing: Defining Quantum Advantage in the Pre-Fault Tolerant Era | Best Western South Coast Inn | NORGATE_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $169, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 4/4/2026 |
| Non-equilibrium Dynamics, from Active Matter to Evolutionary Dynamics | Best Western South Coast Inn | COMPLEXYS_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $179, Fri. & Sat. $229 + 14.195% per night tax | 5/3/2026 |
| Bridging Platforms: Exploration and Control of Fractionalized States | Best Western South Coast Inn | FRAC_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $179, Fri. & Sat. $229 + 14.195% per night tax | 7/31/2026 |
| Artificial Intelligence at the Quantum Frontier | Best Western South Coast Inn | AIQMATTER_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $209, Fri. & Sat. $279 + 14.195% per night tax | 8/28/2026 |
| Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules | Best Western South Coast Inn | ULTRACOLD_C26 | Sun.–Thursday: $169, Fri. & Sat. $189 + 14.195% per night tax | 10/8/2026 |
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For Further Information
If you have any questions, please contact:
KITP Conference Assistant
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030
Office telephone: (805) 893-6383
Fax number: (805) 893-3486
e-mail: kitpconf at kitp dot ucsb dot edu