Life at OPI

Between 8-10 Optimum Performance Institute Participants will be spending two weeks late this summer in the Land of the Incas: Machu Picchu and the Urubanba Valley and the Manu Wildlife Center in the Peruvian Amazon Basin. They will be accompanied by OPI staff. The customized trip is being organized by Geographic Expeditions, a San Francisco-based…

Students at the Optimum Performance Institute continue to learn about new, cutting-edge scientific theories and techniques at “chalk talks” held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KTIP) located on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. Recently they attended a lecture by a physicist who won the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious prize…

The following article was written by Jacob, an OPI Participant, after attending a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. On March 10, three residents of OPI traveled to Santa Barbara to hear a lecture at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on algorithms in art. I was lucky…