Summer Program

Beyond von-Neumann Computing: Leveraging Novel Physics for the Future of Computation

May 25–June 15, 2025

Organizers:

Lincoln D. Carr, Colorado School of Mines
Florian Marquardt, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
*Peter McMahon, Cornell University
Hakan Tureci, Princeton University

*represents the organizer in charge of promoting diversity

Summer Workshops

The summer program, running for 16 weeks from late-May to mid-September, emphasizes exciting open problems at the cutting edge. Two or three concurrent workshops, each with a specific focus selected for timeliness and the potential for breakthroughs and of two to five weeks in length, establish the main themes of each week, with twelve or thirteen different workshops each summer, balanced across fields including particle physics, string theory, astrophysics and hard and soft condensed matter physics, as well as emerging areas including biological physics, ultra-cold atom physics, quantum information, and physical mathematics. Additional researchers participate in small working groups or as individual researchers. This framework is designed to maximize informal interactions and free discussion within each area and to promote cross-fertilization between different areas via the common language of theoretical physics. Participation in the summer program of the Aspen Center for Physics is by application and subsequent invitation only. View past workshops.