Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校(UCSB)的卡夫利理论物理研究所(KITP)通过独特的结构和运作模式为全球理论物理界服务。KITP推动了与科学家为广泛和多样化的物理界策划的长期项目的互动。项目参与者与科学同行的广泛接触刺激了协作网络，从而推动了物理学的智力事业。作为一个主要由同行管理的机构，KITP在其研究项目的规划和实施过程中拥有来自社区的重要投入，它响应新的科学机会，鼓励变革性研究，并通过确保广泛的机会和代表性来促进多样性。为了将前沿物理学带给尽可能多的观众，KITP开发了记录所有讲座、研讨会、讨论和公开讲座的能力，并将它们提供给世界各地的社会。KITP在线主持超过21,000场演讲，一年中每天有400多个小时被观看，极大地增加了它的影响力。KITP是一个用户设施，有NSF、UCSB和其他大量的私人基金会赠款来支持参观者的费用以及支持这些项目所需的工作人员和基础设施。在典型的一年中，KITP运行12个研究项目，持续时间从四周到四个月。总是有两个重叠的项目，导致每年有24,000个游客日，在KITP的任何时候平均都有68名游客。KITP是通向世界的窗口，也是国际科学合作的典范。大多数长项目还举办一个短会议，为大约60-80名额外的研究人员提供来到KITP的机会。KITP包括研究生有机会在导师在场的情况下通过支持访问来参与。KITP受到大流行封锁期的教训激励，为所有项目和会议提供了混合出席机会。KITP的活动还促进了参与者的职业生涯，允许发现新的导师和学员，并提高了职业生涯早期研究人员的形象。该奖项由数学和物理科学局内的物理部、材料研究部和天文科学部共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), serves the global theoretical physics community via a unique structure and mode of operation. KITP drives interactions with long-stay, scientist-curated programs for the broad and diverse physics community. This extended exposure of program participants to scientific peers stimulates collaborative networks that advance the intellectual enterprise of physics. As a largely peer-managed institute, with essential input from the community in the planning and implementation of its research programs, the KITP responds to new scientific opportunities, encourages transformational research, and promotes diversity by ensuring broad opportunities and representation. In order to bring forefront physics to as large an audience as possible, the KITP has developed the capability to record all talks, seminars, discussions and public lectures and provide them to the world-wide community. KITP Online hosts over 21,000 talks and is watched for more than 400 hours every day of the year, dramatically increasing its impact.The KITP is a user facility, with the NSF, UCSB, and other substantial private foundation grants supporting the visitors' expenses and the staff and infrastructure needed to support the programs. In a typical year, the KITP runs 12 research programs, lasting from four weeks to four months. There are always two overlapping programs, resulting in 24,000 visitor-days per year and an average of 68 visitors at the KITP at any time. The KITP is a window to the world and a prime example of international scientific cooperation. Most long programs also host a short conference, providing an opportunity for approximately 60-80 additional researchers to come to the KITP. KITP includes the opportunity for graduate students to participate by supporting visits when their mentors are present. Motivated by the lessons learned during the lock-down period of the pandemic, KITP offers a hybrid attendance opportunity for all programs and conferences. The activities at the KITP also enhance the careers of those who participate, allowing for new mentors and mentees to be discovered as well as raising the profiles of early-career researchers. This award is co-funded by the Division of Physics, the Division of Materials Research, and the Division of Astronomical Sciences within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.