Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Kavli理论物理研究所（KITP）位于加州大学圣巴巴拉校区，通过独特的运作和结构模式服务于理论物理的各种目标。访问研究项目与小型永久教员和博士后研究员的结合，使访问科学家之间的互动产生持久的影响。作为一个主要由同行管理的研究所，KITP在规划和实施其研究项目方面有来自社区的重要投入，对新的科学机会作出反应，鼓励转型研究，并通过确保广泛的代表性来促进多样性。这些项目吸引了来自世界各地机构的精选参与者，旨在加强参与者之间的互动和合作，以激发充满活力的创造性思维，从而带来洞察力和重大的科学进步。KITP致力于接触新的科学团体，并在物理学和相关领域（如生物学、化学、地球科学和数学）的交叉路口促进跨学科研究。研究领域涵盖凝聚态物理、天体物理、高能与粒子物理、弦理论与数学物理、原子物理与光学、引力物理与相对论、生物物理等理论物理的所有传统领域。咨询委员会根据社区提交的建议，选择提前1.5-2年的KITP项目。理事会每三年轮换一次成员，广泛代表了国家物理界，并在向研究所传达社区的愿望、建议和抱怨方面发挥了重要作用，同时也是项目潜在组织者的汇集地。项目的选择取决于科学的卓越性、成功发展的潜力、项目的时间安排以及与并行项目协同运行的潜力。特别关注跨不同领域的课程，如原子与凝聚态物理、量子信息与凝聚态物理、量子场论与数学、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人员、项目基础设施和KITP博士后的费用。在典型的一年里，研究所运行8-12个研究项目，持续1-6个月。在任何给定的时间，都有两到三个重叠的项目，每个项目约有20-25名游客。这导致每年有超过1000名游客，每年大约有23,000个游客日。该研究所为年轻的理论家提供了令人兴奋的经历。与其他机构相比，博士后可以接触到更多不同的理论方面，接触到更多的科学家，这为发展广阔的视野和开始独立研究提供了独特的机会。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，花5-6个月的时间参加KITP活动，扩大他们对物理学的掌握。参加KITP的科学家可以带着他们的学生作为附属机构。总的来说，在任何给定的时间，大约有10-20名研究生在KITP。为了将前沿物理学带给尽可能多的受众，KITP开发了一个网站，涵盖了研究所的所有活动。所有演讲、研讨会和每年4次的公开讲座的录音、幻灯片、PowerPoint、网络摄像头图像、计算机图形和视频都发布在网上。这个档案现在包含超过10,000个演讲，每年收到超过95,000,000次点击（包括超过3,000万次的公开演讲点击），导致超过73,500小时的音频流到世界各地。所有的节目谈话都被记录下来，所有的会议谈话都几乎实时地放在网上。一个由私人基金支持的驻场记者项目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关于传播科学的技巧。KITP学者计划支持不在主要研究机构工作的教师的研究工作，每年资助对KITP进行为期两周的访问。一年一度的春季中学教师会议汇集了来自美国各地的教师，就与同时进行的科学项目之一相关的主题进行会谈和讨论。

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.