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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Café KITP: Purls of wisdom

The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Elisabetta Matsumoto.  Join her over dinner and drinks as she takes a sock’s eye view of geometry and topology and walks you through an evening of fun with fabric.

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Magnetic Fields Prevalent in Stellar Interiors

Going International

Café KITP: Black Holes, Quantum Tunneling and String Theory

KITP Postdocs Enable Cartography of Embryo Tissues

Magnetic Hide and Seek

KITP Seeks a Deputy Director

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics seeks to appoint a Deputy Director, starting as early as September 1, 2016. The Deputy Director works closely with the Director in planning the Institute's 12 yearly research programs and plays a prominent role in outreach planning, computing, and in administering the Institute.

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Café KITP: Supernova Hunters

The next Café KITP at SOhO, features Iair Arcavi.  He will speak on Supernova Hunters.

SOhO is located at 1221 State St., 2nd floor.  The event is Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Doors open at 5:00 pm.

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KITP Fall 2015 Newsletter now Available

Director Lars Bildsten is happy to announce the release of the Fall 2015 KITP Newsletter. He expects to release such a Newsletter twice a year, with the next one arriving in February 2016.

[Fall 2015 Newsletter]

Astrophysicists come to UCSB to learn about stars

Over thirty scientists spent a week learning how to use Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), an open-source computational tool developed by Bill Paxton here at KITP.

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