Institute for Theoretical Physics

位于加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的理论物理研究所（ITP）将继续为科学家们提供一个聚会场所，让他们聚集在一起，交流思想，以促进新的研究合作、突破和物理学众多领域的进步。ITP赞助的专题项目短至三周，长至六个月。项目主题由ITP咨询委员会从科学界征求的建议中选择。主题的选择是基于它们在一个特别及时和/或新颖的领域中刺激进步的潜力，并且通常具有多学科或跨学科的特征。与长期计划相结合，ITP通常赞助两次会议，以接受社区的投入，并向更广泛的受众传播结果。此外，在有利的时候，还会进行较短的小程序。ITP是四名研究人员的永久家园，他们也是加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的终身教授，他们在各自的专业领域提供科学领导，帮助主任指导ITP，并赋予ITP经验和连续性。每个人都是世界级的科学家，他们偶尔会帮助组织一个项目，但会不断地与常驻项目组织者和其他访问科学家互动。ITP还资助了一批博士后，他们可以接触到广泛的前沿话题和科学领袖。通过ITP学者计划，ITP促进非主要研究型大学的教师的研究工作，并向通常不受ITP计划服务的教师伸出援手。ITP还发挥教育作用，邀请其他大学的研究生访问ITP一个学期或一年。ITP由主任管理，由副主任和四个常任理事国协助，咨询委员会的顾问由具有广泛经验和专门知识的不同科学家组成。根据该合同，ITP将得到NSF天文科学部、材料研究部、数学科学部和物理部的资金支持。它还得到了加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的大量财政支持。

The Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), located at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will continue to provide a meeting ground where scientists get together and engage in the exchange of ideas with the goal of stimulating new research collaborations, breakthroughs, and advances in numerous areas of physics. The ITP sponsors thematic programs from as short as three weeks to as long as six months. Program topics are selected by the ITP Advisory Board from proposals solicited from the scientific community. Topics are chosen on the basis of their potential to stimulate progress in an area that is particularly timely and/or novel and are often of a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary character. In association with the long-term programs, the ITP generally sponsors two conferences to receive input from the community and to disseminate results to a wider audience. In addition, shorter mini-programs are conducted when propitious.The ITP is the permanent home of four researchers, who are also tenured faculty at UCSB, and who provide scientific leadership in their specialties and help the Director guide the ITP and endow the ITP with experience and continuity over time. Each is a world class scientist in his own right who occasionally helps organize a program but continually interacts with resident program organizers and other visiting scientists. The ITP also sponsors a group of Postdoctoral Fellows who are exposed to the wide range of forefront topics and scientific leaders. Through the ITP Scholars Program, the ITP fosters the research efforts of faculty not at major research universities and reaches out to faculty not normally served by ITP programs. The ITP also plays an educational role by bringing Graduate Student Fellows from other universities to visit the ITP for a semester or year.The ITP is governed by the Director, assisted by the Deputy Director and the four permanent members, with the counsel of an Advisory Board consisting of a diverse group of scientists having a wide variety of experiences and expertise. Under this award, the ITP will receive financial support from the NSF Divisions of Astronomical Sciences, Materials Research, Mathematical Sciences and Physics. It also receives substantial financial support from the University of California at Santa Barbara.