General Members

The ACP is run by the Members* through their volunteer service contributions.

What is a Member? ACP Membership is a service role, with members contributing their diverse expertise and skills in support of the mission of the Center. These skills include scientific vision, community building, communication and outreach, fundraising, administration, and IT.

What do Members do? Members help guide the scientific direction of the Center, participate in the organization of ACP activities, serve as ACP ambassadors to the community, fundraise for the Center, and oversee all aspects of the Center’s activities. Members are expected to help increase ACP diversity and reach in all dimensions—including promoting new scientific directions and reaching out to new scientific communities—and to be familiar with the Center and to participate in its activities.

Specific formal responsibilities include reviewing applications for summer participants and workshop proposals for the Summer and Winter Programs, overseeing the upkeep of and improvements to Center facilities, recruiting speakers for colloquia and public talks, developing and overseeing the operation of the Center’s computing operations, fundraising for the Center and attending to its financial management, and engaging in long-range planning. These activities represent tens to over 100 hours of effort per person per year.

In nominating new Scientific Members, we aim to identify outstanding scientists who are passionate about the ACP and are willing to volunteer significant time to contribute to many aspects of the Center’s operations. We are interested in people with a strong commitment to diversity in all its dimensions and, where possible, a demonstrated track record of enabling a culture that honors the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. New Members have typically participated in the Center’s programs more than once, have shown a strong interest in furthering its programs (including the introduction of new research areas), have often been leaders in summer workshops or winter conferences, and are tenured (where tenure applies). If you have suggestions for new General Members, please contact the current ACP President.

*The use of the term “Member” derives from the language used in Colorado non-profit law and DOES NOT indicate that ACP is a club. Members are responsible for the overall policies and direction of the Center’s program, and with the election of the Trustees who legally run the Center’s operations, as specified in the Center’s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws and Colorado law. Members rotate, serving limited terms, to ensure that new ideas, areas of physics, and communities are represented.

Learn more about the evolution of the governance structure in this article: “The History and Structure of the Aspen Center for Physics: Some Comments” by Randy Durand here.

“The ACP is truly a theorist’s paradise!”
– Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Past General Members

Elihu Abrahams
1990-2006
Ian Affleck
1991-1995
Ehud Altman
2014 - 2024
Les Anderson
1990-1996
Philip Anderson
1976-1982, 1990-2004
Tom Appelquist
1990-2006
Dave Arnett
1997-2007
Daniel Arovas
1995-2000
Assa Auerbach
2006-2016
Jonathan Bagger
1995-2015
Neta Bahcall
1994-1999
William Bardeen
1986-1992
Gordon Baym
2014 - 2024
John S. Bennett
2011-2021
Jeremy Bernstein
1981-1998
Gyan Bhanot
2014 - 2024
Ravin Bhatt
1988-2011
Archer Bishop
2010-2015
Steven Block
1999-2009
Lowell Brown
1982-1988, 1990-1995
Adam Burrows
2000-2015
Juan Carlos Campuzano
2010-2013
Marcela Carena
2004-2019
Jessica Catto
2000-2001
Bulbul Chakraborty
2009-2019
Sudip Chakravarty
1990-2004
Premala Chandra
1995-2010
Dmitri Chklovskii
2004-2009
Andrey Chubukov
2004-2014
Andrew Cohen
1994-2019
Sidney Coleman
1981-1987, 1990-2005
Stirling Colgate
1972-1978, 1990-2004
Susan Coppersmith
1991-2006
Lester Crain
2008-2017
Michael Cross
1986-1997
Mirjam Cvetic
2010-2020
Eric D'Hoker
1990-2007
Charles DeLisi
2006-2011
Nicholas DeWolf
1983-2003
David De Young
1990-2006
Lance Dixon
1993-2003
Scott Dodelson
2005-2020
Bernice Durand
1980-1986, 1990-2000
Loyal Durand
1968-1980, 1990-1999
Henriette Elvang
2016-2021
Michael Fain
1993-2008
Edward Farhi
2004-2014
Jonathan Feng
2012-2023
Paul Fishbane
1974-1981, 1990-2001
Daniel Fisher
1984-1993
Matthew Fisher
2001-2006
Martin Flug
1996-2015
William Frazer
1993-2008
Daniel Freedman
1977-1982, 1990-1994
Michael Freedman
2008-2018
Wendy Freedman
1998-2003
Katherine Freese
1991-2001
Josh Frieman
1999 - 2024
Stephen Gasiorowicz
1980-1986, 1990-1994
Murray Gell-Mann
1968-1980, 1990-2005
Graciela Gelmini
1994-1999
Andrea Ghez
2004-2008
Albert Gilson
1993-1998
Steven Girvin
1990-1995, 2002-2004
Leonid Glazman
2005-2015
Paul Goldbart
2006-2021
Charles Goodman
1994-1999
Josh Grindlay
1989-2002
Alexander Grosberg
2008 - 2024
David Gross
1987-2003
Yuval Grossman
2006-2016
Steven Gubser
2002-2007
Howard Haber
1993-2013
Duncan Haldane
1990-2000
Fiona Harrison
2002-2003
James Hartle
1990-2006
Jeffrey Harvey
1986-1997
Stephen Hawking
1995-2000
Timothy Heckman
2012-2017
Robert Hefner
1995-2005
Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho
1996-2006
Craig Hogan
1990-2002
Pierre Hohenberg
1987-1993
John Hopfield
1991-1996
Gerald Hosier
1995-2005
Edward Hudson
1993-2015
Randall Hulet
2013-2023
Garth Illingworth
2003-2013
Clifford Johnson
2004-2019
Barbara Jones
1994-2009
Bill Joy
1997-2007
Shamit Kachru
2005-2015
Catherine Kallin
1992-2002
Randall Kamien
2003-2009
Marc Kamionkowski
2003-2018
Anton Kapustin
2018-2023
Guinevere Kauffmann
2006-2016
Peter Kaus
1968-1980, 1990-1994
Igor Klebanov
2006-2016
Carol Ann Kopf
1999-2019
Gabriel Kotliar
2006-2016
Lawrence Krauss
1998-2008
Per Kraus
2013-2023
Andrey Kravtsov
2006-2016
Alexander Kusenko
2004-2019
Donald Q. Lamb
1981-1987, 1990-2004
Garland Lasater
2000-2010
Robert Laughlin
1994-2004
Leon Lederman
1989-1992
Patrick Lee
1981-1987, 1990-1994
Douglas Lin
2003-2009
Andrea Liu
2008-2013
Joseph Lykken
2000-2015
Chung-Pei Ma
2001-2006
Aneesh Manohar
2001-2016
Crystal Martin
2010-2020
Larry Marx
1993-2008
Robert Maynard
1988-1996
Larry McLerran
1988-1996
Sydney Meshkov
1974-1981, 1990-2004
Andrew Millis
1997-2017
Aditi Mitra
2019-2024
Kathryn Moler
2012-2017
Gregory Moore
2005-2015
Joel Moore
2010-2020
David R. Morrison
2009 - 2024
Hitoshi Murayama
2001-2009
Norman Murray
2013-2023
Ganpathy Murthy
2008-2018
Chetan Nayak
2004-2019
Ann Nelson
1992-1997, 2017-2019
Phil Nelson
2013-2023
Richard Norton
1986-1992
Angela Olinto
1995-2008
Jeremiah Ostriker
1994-1999
Elaine Pagels
2005-2020
P. J. E. Peebles
1987-2003
Philip Pincus
2002-2013
David Pines
1968-1980, 1990-2002
Stephen Pinsky
1999-2009
Joe Polchinski
1998-2004
Tom Powers
2009-2014
Richard Prange
1982-1988, 1990-1993
Karin Rabe
1995-2021
Pierre Ramond
1990-2010
Lisa Randall
1997-2012
Fred Rasio
2009-2019
John Reppy
1990-2000
Jonathan Rosner
1977-1983,1990-1998
Robert Rosner
2001-2011
Andrei Ruckenstein
1995-2010
Malvin Ruderman
1984-1996
Subir Sachdev
2002-2007
James A. Sauls
1990-2005
Joerg Schmalian
2005-2020
Martin Schmaltz
2008-2018
David Schramm
1983-1997
John H. Schwarz
1981-1988, 1990-2005
Anirvan Sengupta
2005-2015
R. Shankar
1998-2013
Stephen Shenker
1990-2005
Boris Shklovskii
2000-2010
Boris I. Shraiman
1993-2008
Pierre Sikivie
1997-2007
Joseph Silk
1992-1997
Eva Silverstein
1999-2006, 2014-2019
Elizabeth H. Simmons
1994-2019
L.M. Simmons, Jr.
1976-1982, 1990-1992
Richard Slansky
1982-1988, 1990-1998
Maria Spiropulu
2010-2020
Gary Steigman
1977-1983, 1990-1998
Daniel Stein
1987-2003
Charles Stevens
1998-2018
A. Douglas Stone
1993-2008
George Stranahan
1990-2013
Andrew Strominger
1991-2001
Lubert Stryer
2003-2008
John Terning
2005-2015
David Thouless
1982-1988, 1990-1998
Senthil Todadri
2010-2020
James Truran
1979-1985, 1990-2004
Michael Turner
1984-2003
Anthony Tyson
1999-2009
Felix von Oppen
2017-2019
Kevin Ward
2005-2010
Erick J. Weinberg
1990-2008
Neal Weiner
2010-2020
J. Craig Wheeler
1990-2006
Eric Wilcots
2005-2010
David Wilkinson
1990-1995
Robert Williams
1982-1988, 1990-1992
Ned Wingreen
2007-2017
Lincoln Wolfenstein
1968-1973, 1990-1999
Rosemary Wyse
2003-2018
Kathryn Zurek
2012-2023
Please note, individuals who served as members prior to 1980 will be listed in the Past Trustees section on the Trustees page here