“The Aspen Center for Physics gives me freedom from back-to-back meetings, and provides the opportunity to talk with colleagues and forget about the passage of time. We can just think and bounce ideas off each other with no interruptions.”

– Vicky Kalogera, 2023

“As always the format of few talks and lots of time for discussion paid off. Many Aspen-newbies initially worried that they would be not occupied enough. At the end of the workshop everyone agreed that the format works perfectly: the weather being good, the outdoor space became a huge interaction forum for people to just spontaneously meet and discuss and collaborate! The ACP is truly a theorist’s paradise!”

— Sakura Shafer-Nameki, 2022

“Why is ACP so impactful? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the cool mountain air. Maybe it’s the gorgeous and inspiring Colorado scenery. Maybe it’s the ACP climate, which shelters us from the distractions of everyday life and is built around opportunities for fresh activities, for in-depth discussions, for intensely focused thinking, and for ideas to fly around and fertilize engaged minds. We come here stuck on a scientific problem, and often leave with it solved, and with five new ones in our heads. What can be more exciting than this? What can be more impactful?”

– Ilya Nemenman

“The Aspen Center for Physics has had a very special place in my career. I started many new directions of research here because of the serendipity of meeting other scientists in this venue where the emphasis is on collaboration and discussion, rather than listening to seminars. I am also grateful for all the support the ACP gives to physicists with family. The camps and childcare opportunities which the Center and Aspen facilitated made it possible for both my me and my spouse to continue our research over the summer.”

– Vijay Balasubramanian, 2023

“The Aspen Center for Physics provides an opportunity for us researchers to jointly contemplate the directions our fields should take, and to determine the most interesting problems we should research and address. I think that Aspen, in this way, is crucial for maintaining the fabric of our research community. Without it, our sense of common mission and direction would be significantly impaired, making our scientific process of research and discovery much more individualistic and significantly less effective.”

– Gil Refeal, 2012