Summer Program

Ultra Quantum Matter: Synergy Between Theory and Experiment

July 27–August 17, 2025

Organizers:

Joseph Checkelsky, MIT
Debanjan Chowdhury, Cornell University
Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto
*Jie Shan, Cornell 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.