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DAVID GROSS AWARDED 2004 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS (10/04)
David J. Gross, Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics and KITP Director, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics along with two colleagues, Frank Wilczek, physics professor at MIT and David Politzer at Caltech. The announcement means that three of the institute's five directors have been awarded Nobel Prizes.PROFESSOR LARS BILDSTEN AWARDED BIERMANN LECTURESHIP (6/04)
Professor Lars Bildsten, Permanent Member at the KITP, has been awarded the Biermann Lectureship at the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Munich for Summer 2004. Established in 1997, the Biermann Lectureship brings a world-ranked astrophysicist to Garching for a month with the task of giving a series of prize lectures and interacting broadly within the various local institutes. The aim is to stimulate scientific activity across the Munich astronomical community. Previous Biermann Lecturers were Joseph Silk (1997), Roger Blandford (1998), Bob Williams (1999), Bohdan Paczynski (2000), James Truran (2001), and Ramesh Narayan (2002).FISHER ELECTED FELLOW OF AAAS ( 5/03)
Matthew Fisher has been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Fisher was cited for his seminal contributions to the vortex-glass phase, the superconductor-insulator transition, and the theory of electron fractionalization, which have greatly deepened our understanding of strongly-correlated electron materials.THE INSTITUTE CELEBRATES ITS FIRST ENDOWED CHAIR (11/02)
The institute received a major gift from UCSB Foundation Trustee and former
Managing Director of McKinsey and Company, Fred Gluck. The $1 million gift
will create an endowment for the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics
for the director at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Fred said of his gift, "I am impressed with the excellence in scientific leadership at the KITP, and with the unique collaborative discovery that takes place in institute programs that attract the world's leading theorists".UNIVERSITY HOLDS NAMING CEREMONY TO HONOR BENEFACTOR (6/02)
The university held a ceremony in June, 2002 to formally name the institute the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The event honored Fred Kavli who made two gifts totaling $7.5 million through the Kavli Foundation and the Kavli Operating Institute for building endowment, supporting the construction of a new wing and programmatic initiatives at the institute. View photographs of the ceremony and read remarks of keynote speaker Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.
