Institute for Theoretical Physics

位于圣巴巴拉的加州大学的理论物理研究所（ITP）将继续提供一个科学家聚集在一起并进行思想交流的会议场所，其目标是激励新的研究合作，突破和物理学众多领域的进步。 ITP赞助的主题项目从短至三周到长达六个月。 项目主题由ITP咨询委员会从科学界征求的建议中选出。 选择专题的依据是这些专题是否有可能促进特别及时和/或新颖的领域取得进展，而且往往具有多学科或跨学科性质。 与长期方案相联系，ITP通常赞助两次会议，以听取社区的意见，并向更广泛的受众传播成果。 ITP是四名研究人员的永久家园，他们也是UCSB的终身教职员工，他们在各自的专业领域提供科学领导，帮助主任指导ITP，并随着时间的推移赋予ITP经验和连续性。 每个人都是世界级的科学家，偶尔帮助组织一个项目，但不断与驻地项目组织者和其他来访的科学家互动。 ITP还赞助了一批博士后研究员，他们接触到广泛的前沿课题和科学领导者。 通过ITP学者计划，ITP促进了教师的研究工作，而不是在主要的研究型大学，并接触到教师通常不属于ITP计划。ITP还发挥教育作用，邀请其他大学的研究生研究员访问ITP一个学期或一年。ITP由主任管理，由副主任和四名常任成员协助，由具有各种经验和专业知识的多元化科学家组成的咨询委员会提供咨询。 根据该奖项，ITP将获得NSF天文科学，材料研究，数学科学和物理部门的财政支持。 它还得到圣巴巴拉的加州大学的大量财政支助。

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.