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KITP Scholars - Spend two weeks per year here.
Graduate Fellows - Nominate your best student.
Postdocs - Postdoc applications-deadline Dec. 1.
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Current Activities(more info)

Evolutionary Perspectives on Mechanisms of Cellular Organization
Towards Material Design Using Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
The Theory and Observation of Exoplanets
Materials by Design

Upcoming Programs(more info)

Strings at the LHC and in the Early Universe
The Physics of Glasses: Relating Metallic Glasses to Molecular, Polymeric and Oxide Glasses
Electron Glasses
X-Ray Frontiers
Langlands-Type Dualities in Quantum Field Theory
Beyond Standard Optical Lattices
Emerging Techniques in Neuroscience
Disentangling Quantum Many-body Systems: Computational and Conceptual Approaches
Microbial and Viral Evolution
Galaxy Clusters: the Crossroads of Astrophysics and Cosmology
The Nature of Turbulence
more…

Upcoming Conferences(more info)

Exoplanets Rising
Emerging Concepts in Glass Physics
X-ray Science in the 21st Century
Out of Equilibrium Quantum Systems
Frontiers of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules
Soft Matter Physics Approaches to Biology

Today's Events(more info)

Teachers' Conferences(more info)

Come to the KITP and be at the forefront of modern physics research.

• Planets Beyond the Solar System: The New Astronomical Revolution
• Raab Contest Winners announced!
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KITP News(more info)

• KITP Public Lecture Wednesday, February 24, 8:00 pm

  Professor Paul Nurse presents “The great Ideas of biology”
  [Flyer] [Public lecture page] [Full story]

• New Type of Supernova Explosion Detected Was Predicted by KITP Theoretical Physicists

  A class of supernova, discovered by scientists at Berkeley, may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at KITP and UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work. [Full Story]

• Entrepreneur Endows Susan F. Gurley Chair in Theoretical Physics and Biology

  In honor of his mother, Gus Gurley establishes a chair whose first holder is KITP permanent member Boris Shraiman.
  [Full Story][Talks]