Summer Program
Physics-Inspired Machine Learning for Biological Discovery
July 18–August 8, 2027
Organizers:
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Armita Nourmohammad, Yale University
Greg Stephens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lenka Zdeborová, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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.