Summer Program
Physics in the Era of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves
August 3–24, 2025
Organizers:
Kimberly Boddy, University of Texas Austin
Jeff Dror, University of Florida
Carl-Johan Haster, University of Nevada Las Vegas
*Luke Kelley, University of California Berkeley
*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.