KITP Launches Fellows Program for 2022-2023

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara has launched its KITP Fellows program for the 2022-2023 academic year. The KITP Fellows program supports a single long visit (6-8 week) from experimentalists, observers or theorists in physics or astronomy departments at teaching-intensive U.S. colleges or universities designated as Minority Serving Institutions […]

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Anacapa closes out 2013 with successful conference

The 3rd regional meeting of the Anacapa Society was held December 13-15 at Georgia Regents University (GRU). Superbly organized by Prof. Trinanjan Datta (GRU), the conference saw some three dozen participants gather for three days. The conference schedule focused on research talks, but also included additional sessions on professional issues for theorists at undergraduate institutions, […]

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Four Anacapans Awarded Grants in FQXi Large Grant Competition

Four Anacapa Society members — Ian Durham of St. Anselm College, Donald Spector of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Alexander Wilce of Susquehanna University, and William Wootters of Williams College — have been awarded grants by the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). In this year’s grant competition, FQXi’s fourth, FQXi sought proposals addressing foundational questions in […]

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Anacapa member Prof. Lea Santos wins NSF CAREER award

Anacapa Society member Prof. Lea Santos of Yeshiva University has been awarded a presitigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Her five-year grant will run from 2012 to 2017, with funds totaling $475,000, and will allow her and a post-doctoral researcher to conduct “Studies of Dynamics and Control of Quantum Many-Body Systems Far from […]

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2012 Regional meeting a success

The 2012 regional meeting of the Anacapa Society was held May 11-12, 2012 at Hamline University. Organized by JiaJia Dong of Hamline University (now at Bucknell University) , Tonnis ter Veldhuis of Macalester College, and Arjendu Pattanayak of Carleton College, the workshop brought together around three dozen participants, with research talks by virtually everyone. A […]

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Apker winner has Anacapa member as advisor… again!

For the second time in two years, a student receiving the prestigious APS Apker award for research by an undergraduate worked with a member of the Anacapa Society. One of this year’s winners, Bilin Zhuang of Wellesley College, recieved the award for her thesis on “The Thermodynamics of Ising Systems on the Triangular Kagome Lattice […]

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Anacapa Society and Amherst College sign hosting agreement

Tuesday, June 2, 2008, marked the signing of a letter of agreement between Amherst College and the Anacapa Society. On hand to sign for the board of the Society were Herb Bernstein (Hampshire College) and Courtney Lannert (Wellesley College). Greg Call, Dean of Faculty at Amherst College represented the College and Will Loinaz, in his […]

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Anacapan Helps Bring Physics to the Theater

Anacapa member Gabriel Cwilich has been involved in two theater shows that are running now at the Ensemble Studio Theater  (EST) ,  an off-Broadway theater in midtown Manhattan; he was the science advisor on both shows as part of his long-term involvement in the advisory board of the EST/ Alfred Sloan foundation project, part of […]

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