Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond | Karen Daniels (NC State) The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cross program communications that work…

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Rigidity (or not) on the Earth's surface and beyond

Fingerprints of the Later Universe in the CMB... | Gilbert Holder (Univ. of Illinois) Full title: Fingerprints of the Later Universe in the Cosmic Microwave Background The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP…

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KITP Conference | New Synergies in Multi-Probe Cosmology #cmblss-c26 Recorded as part of the New Synergies in Multi-Probe Cosmology (#cmblss-c26) conference from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the Univer...

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Stay tuned for the associated program, Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys, next week!

Welcome to all participants joining the #KITP conference on New Synergies in Multi-Probe Cosmology (#cmblss -c26) this week!

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Welcome to the Soft Earth Geophysics program at KITP!

January 5 - March 26, 2026

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Welcome to the Exploring New Boundaries in Cosmology and Astrophysics: Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure Surveys program at KITP!

January 12 - March 5, 2026

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KITP Conference | Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (#softearth-c26) We live on a soft matter landscape. Earth materials such as soil, mud, ice and rocks exist in a fuzzy state between solid and fluid, depending on the timesca...

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Stay tuned for the associated program, Soft Earth Geophysics (#softearth26), continuing next week!

Welcome to all participants joining the #KITP conference on Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (#softearth-c26) this week!

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UCSB’s Munger Residence is science’s Chateau Marmont.

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A roadmap to stellar-mass black holes | Ilya Mandel (Monash Univ.) The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cross program communications that work…

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Boris Shraiman points a physicist’s eye on biological quandaries Boris Shraiman is awarded the American Physical Society’s Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics.

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KITP Conference | The Lifecycle of Stellar Black Holes Gravitational wave detections are revolutionizing our knowledge of the stellar mass black hole population. Gaia is unveiling a new population of dormant blac...

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Advanced grad students + postdocs: apply for the 2026 #kitpqbio summer course, "Physical Principles of Morphogenesis in Plants and Animals," at buff.ly/OXXMKEv. Apply by Feb. 1.
Course directors Adrienne Roeder (Cornell) and Sebastian Streichan (UCSB)

Welcome to all participants joining the #KITP conference on The Lifecycle of Stellar Black Holes (#stellarbh-c25) this week!

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Watch the latest #KITP Blackboard Lunch talk by Yi Zhuang You (ucsandiego.bsky.social) and learn about "Generative Models and Physics"
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Listening to Black Holes with Gravitational Waves | Maya Fishbach (CITA) Black holes are the most extreme objects in our universe. Thanks to incredibly sensitive instruments — known as gravitational-wave observatories — we can “hear” when two black holes crash into each…

Dr. Maya Fishbach (CITA) summarized what gravitational waves are, how we detect them, and what they teach us about black holes, progenitor stars, and cosmic expansion history in the latest #KITP Public Lecture.
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Welcome to the Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics (#genai25) program at KITP!

November 3 - December 19, 2025

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The Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications
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Welcome to the Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys (#stellarbh25) program at KITP!

October 27, 2025 - December 19, 2025

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Watch the latest #KITP Blackboard Lunch talk, "Learnable and unlearnable in quantum dynamics" by Matteo Ippoliti (Texas), coordinator of the Learning the Fine Structure of Quantum Dynamics in Programmable Quantum Matter #finestructure25 program 🧪

#NobelPrize. Le Prix Nobel de physique 2025 est décerné à John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret et John M. Martinis "pour la découverte de l'effet tunnel quantique macroscopique et de la quantification de l'énergie dans un circuit électrique"

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics. John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Nobel in physics awarded to scientists showing quantum mechanics on a macro scale John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were honored for showing quantum tunneling in an electrical circuit, work with implications for the next generation of quantum technology.

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A rewarding dissertation on the strong nuclear force KITP Postdoc Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld is awarded for outstanding dissertation in nuclear physics by the American Physical Society.

A rewarding dissertation on the strong nuclear force news.ucsb.edu/2025/022040/...

Welcome to the Learning the Fine Structure of Quantum Dynamics in Programmable Quantum Matter (#finestructure25) program at KITP!

September 29 - October 30, 2025

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The limits and applications of noisy quantum dynamics | Michael Gullans (QuICS) The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cross program communications that work…

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Extreme Plasma Physics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes | Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia) The purpose of these Blackboard Talk lunches is for the science of one program to be explained to the other KITP program participants. These talks lead to cross program communications that work…

Watch the latest #KITP Blackboard Lunch talk by Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia) and learn how extreme plasma physics drives the intense luminosity and jet creation of black holes and neutron stars 🧪 youtu.be/ZAqCIXgDP1s

KITP Conference | Quantum Many-body Physics through the Lens of Quantum Error Correction The presence of noise implies that quantum error correction and fault-tolerance are needed to achieve scalable quantum computation. Advances in programmable ...

The Quantum Many-body Physics through the Lens of Quantum Error Correction conference has concluded, but recorded talks are available to watch online and the associated program continues next week at KITP:
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Welcome to the Quantum Many-body Physics through the Lens of Quantum Error Correction (#stablephases-c25) Conference at #KITP

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