The Directors of the KITP since its beginning have been Walter Kohn (1979–1984), Robert Schrieffer (1984–1989), James S. Langer (1989–1995), James Hartle (1995–1997), David Gross (1997–2012), and Lars Bildsten (2012–present).
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In the early 2000s, the institute, formerly known as the Institute for Theoretical Physics, or ITP, was named for the Norwegian-American physicist and businessman Fred Kavli, in recognition of his donation of $7.5 million to the Institute.
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The building was designed by the architect Michael Graves, and a new wing designed by Graves was added in 2003-2004.
The group was formed at the University of California campus in Santa Barbara to create a collaborative problem-solving approach to address wide-spread and complicated problems, modeled after approaches at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).
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He is the former director and current holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
After postdoctoral appointments at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in 1986.