Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

卡维理理论物理研究所

• 批准号: 1125915
• 负责人: Lars Bildsten
• 金额: $ 2307.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-02-01 至 2018-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1125915&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Kavli; Institute; Theoretical; Physics

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), located on the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California (UCSB), serves the diverse goals of theoretical physics via a unique mode of operation and structure. The combination of visiting research programs with a small permanent faculty and postdoctoral fellows enables interactions among visiting scientists to occur with lasting impact. As a largely peer-managed institute, with essential input in the planning and implementation of its research programs from the community, the KITP responds to new scientific opportunities, encourages transformational research, and promotes diversity by ensuring broad representation. The programs, which attract select groups of participants from institutions worldwide, are designed to enhance interaction and collaboration among participants in order to stimulate the vibrant, creative thinking that leads to insight and significant scientific progress. The KITP strives to reach out to new scientific communities and to foster inter-disciplinary research, at the crossroads between Physics and allied fields, such as Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Mathematics.The research programs of the KITP cover all the traditional areas of theoretical physics: Condensed Matter Physics, Astrophysics, High-Energy and Particle Physics, String Theory and Mathematical Physics, Atomic Physics and Optics, Gravitational Physics and Relativity, as well as Biological Physics. The Advisory Board chooses KITP programs with a 1.5-2 year lead time, in response to proposals submitted by the community. The Board, which rotates membership on a three year cycle, is broadly representative of the national physics community, and is instrumental in conveying to the Institute the desires, the suggestions and the complaints of the community, as well as serving as a pool of potential organizers for programs. The choice of programs is dictated by the excellence of the science, the potential for successful advances, the timing of the program and the potential for synergy with programs running in parallel. Special attention is given to programs that span different fields, such as Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Field Theory and Mathematics, Biology. and Physics, and Climate Science. Almost all NSF funds are used to support the expenses of the visitors, the infrastructure of the programs and the KITP postdocs. In a typical year, the Institute runs 8-12 research programs, lasting 1-6 months long. At any given time there are two or three overlapping programs, with about 20-25 visitors resident in each program. This results in more than 1000 visitors per year and a total of approximately 23,000 visitor-days per year.The Institute offers an exciting experience for young theorists. Postdoctoral fellows are exposed to more different aspects of theory and to more scientists than at any other institution, providing unique opportunities to develop broad perspectives and begin independent research. The Graduate Fellows program offers an opportunity for advanced graduate students matriculated elsewhere to spend 5-6 months participating in KITP activities and broadening their grasp of physics. Participating scientists at KITP can bring their students with them as Affiliates. All in all, there are about 10-20 graduate students at the KITP at any given time. In order to bring forefront physics to as large an audience as possible, the KITP has developed a web site that covers all Institute activities. Audio recordings, transparencies, PowerPoint, web-cam images, computer graphics, and video of all talks, seminars and the four yearly public lectures are posted on the Web. This archive now contains over 10,000 talks, and receives over 95,000,000 hits per year (including over 30 million hits on the public lectures), resulting in over 73,500 hours of audio streamed to the world. All program talks are recorded and all conference talks are put on the Web in almost real time. A Journalist-in-Residence program (supported by private funds) enables communicators of science to come to KITP for insight into what theoretical physicists are thinking and doing, and to share with interested scientists tips about communicating science. The KITP Scholars program supports the research efforts of faculty not working at major research institutions by funding two-week annual visits to KITP. The annual spring Secondary School Teachers conference brings teachers from around the United States to participate in talks and discussions on a topic associated with one of the concurrently running scientific programs.

Kavli理论物理研究所（KITP）位于加州大学（UCSB）的圣巴巴拉校区，通过独特的操作和结构模式为理论物理的不同目标服务。访问研究计划与小型永久教师和博士后研究员的结合使访问科学家之间的互动能够产生持久的影响。作为一个主要由同行管理的研究所，在规划和实施其研究计划从社区的重要投入，KITP响应新的科学机会，鼓励转型研究，并通过确保广泛的代表性促进多样性。这些方案吸引了来自世界各地机构的选定参与者群体，旨在加强参与者之间的互动与合作，以激发充满活力的创造性思维，从而带来洞察力和重大科学进步。KITP致力于接触新的科学界，并促进跨学科研究，在物理学和相关领域之间的十字路口，如生物学，化学，地球科学和数学。KITP的研究计划涵盖理论物理的所有传统领域：凝聚态物理，天体物理，高能和粒子物理，弦理论和数学物理，原子物理和光学，引力物理和相对论，以及生物物理。咨询委员会选择KITP计划与1.5-2年的准备时间，以回应社区提交的建议。该委员会，轮流成员在三年的周期，是国家物理学界的广泛代表，并在传达给研究所的愿望，建议和社会的投诉，以及作为一个潜在的组织者的程序池。方案的选择取决于科学的卓越性，成功进步的潜力，方案的时机以及与并行运行的方案协同的潜力。特别注意的是跨越不同领域的程序，如原子和凝聚态物理，量子信息和凝聚态物理，量子场论和数学，生物学。物理学和气候科学。几乎所有的NSF资金都用于支持访问者的费用，项目的基础设施和KITP博士后。在一个典型的一年，该研究所运行8-12个研究项目，持续1-6个月。在任何时候都有两个或三个重叠的节目，每个节目大约有20-25名游客。这导致每年超过1000名访客和每年约23，000个访客日。该研究所为年轻的理论家提供了令人兴奋的体验。博士后研究员接触到更多不同方面的理论和更多的科学家比在任何其他机构，提供独特的机会，发展广阔的视野和开始独立的研究。研究生奖学金计划为其他地方录取的高级研究生提供了一个机会，让他们花5-6个月的时间参加KITP活动，扩大他们对物理学的掌握。参与KITP的科学家可以将他们的学生作为附属机构。总而言之，在任何时候都有大约10-20名研究生在KITP。 为了向尽可能多的观众介绍前沿物理学，KITP开发了一个涵盖所有研究所活动的网站。所有讲座、研讨会和四次年度公开讲座的录音、幻灯片、PowerPoint、网络摄像头图像、计算机图形和视频都张贴在网上。这一档案现在包含10 000多个演讲，每年的点击率超过9 500万次（包括3 000多万次公开演讲），向全世界播放了73 500多小时的音频。所有的节目谈话都被录制下来，所有的会议谈话都几乎是真实的实时地放在网上。常驻记者计划（由私人基金支持）使科学传播者能够来到KITP，深入了解理论物理学家的想法和做法，并与感兴趣的科学家分享有关传播科学的技巧。KITP学者计划通过资助为期两周的KITP年度访问，支持不在主要研究机构工作的教师的研究工作。一年一度的春季中学教师会议使来自美国各地的教师参加与同时运行的科学计划之一相关的主题的会谈和讨论。