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Aruna Balasubramanian
Summer Intern
Aruna Balasubramanian, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an undergraduate at Yale University (Class of 2026), where she is pursuing degrees in Anthropology and History. At Yale, Aruna also works as a docent at the Yale Center for British Art and as a mentor for first-year students at the Asian American Cultural Center. She has written for L’Amuse-Bouche, Yale’s French-language undergraduate journal, and has illustrated for The Yale Layer, a student mental health magazine. A sitar player, she has earned a Madhyama Pratham certificate in performance and theory from the Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal in Mumbai, India. Aruna is also an avid oil painter, and currently displays her landscapes at the Bleu Raven Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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“Physics Utopia:” The Aspen Center for Physics
By Aruna Balasubramanian
In 2001, The New York Times described the Aspen Center for Physics (ACP) as a “physics utopia,” and for good reason. The ACP is the only place on Earth where physicists can come to “talk, think and write [...] while training like Olympians – hiking, scaling 14,000-foot peaks, cycling up mountain passes, jogging and playing cut-throat volleyball in Aspen's thin air at 8,000 feet.”
Building by Design: The Architecture of the Aspen Center for Physics & the Aspen Idea
By Aruna Balasubramanian
The buildings at the Aspen Center for Physics (ACP) reflect the history of Aspen’s development in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Their very location, in a plain alongside Gillespie Street