Summer Workshops

The Center encourages physicists from distant institutions to meet for intensive research interaction. Separate from the workshops, small informal collaborations of two to six physicists are encouraged and efforts are made to accommodate such Working Groups. Learn more about working groups here.

Physicists are encouraged to apply as individual researchers to work on their own projects for up to five weeks at any time during the summer. We provide a serene atmosphere to complete work. The individual researcher may also choose to attend any workshop meetings or chat with other scientists in residence in addition to working on his or her own research.

One component of the Center program is unstructured and concentrates on individual research and the informal exchange of ideas. About 500 physicists and astrophysicists from about 100 institutions participate in the Center's summer program, with 80-90 in residence at any time. (About 40% of the participants attend for the first time.) The research interests of the participants cover a number of fields, including astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, dynamical systems, elementary particle physics, mathematical physics, and statistical physics. The interactions between participants with different interests and backgrounds are one of the most stimulating aspects of the program. Applicants can be sure that colleagues from other sub-fields of physics will be present throughout the summer.

The original concept for the Center was for individual research. Due to demands by funding agencies and academic institutions, the program has developed with specific workshops at the core. Yet, the Center continues to offer desks to applicants who apply to come to do their own research. When completing your summer application, choose Individual Research rather than a particular workshop. Applicants in this category are given as much consideration as those applying for a workshop.

Organizers:

Bruno De Luca, Stanford University
Moritz Münchmeyer, University of Wisconsin Madison
Sabrina Pasterski, Perimeter Institute
Gary Shiu, University of Wisconsin Madison

Organizers:

Naomi Gendler, Harvard University
Jakob Moritz, University of Wisconsin Madison
Enrico Pajer, University of Cambridge
Matthew Reece, Harvard University

Organizers:

Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Kin Fai Mak, Max Plank Institute, Hamburg
Alex Thomson, University of California, Davis
Justin Wilson, Louisiana State University

Organizers:

Marilena Loverde, University of Washington
Gustavo Marques-Tavares, University of Utah
Sarah Shandera, Pennsylvania State University
Yuhsin Tsai, University of Notre Dame

Organizers:

Suvi Gezari, University of Maryland
Andrea Ghez, University of California Los Angeles
Smadar Naoz, University of California Los Angeles
Fred Rasio, Northwestern University

Organizers:

Jennifer Cano, Stony Brook University
Martin Claassen, University of Pennsylvania
Qimiao Si, Rice University
Maia Vergniory, University of Sherbrooke

Organizers:

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
Cari Cesarotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrea Guerrieri, City St. George's, University of London
Ian Moult, Yale University

Organizers:

Daniel Harlow, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geoff Penington, University of California, Berkeley
Julian Sonner, University of Geneva

Organizers:

Andrew Jordan, Chapman University
Kater Murch, Washington University in St. Louis
David Weld, University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizers:

Tzer Han Tan,University of California San Diego
Jasmine Nirody, University of Chicago
Asja Radja, Bryn Mawr College
Suraj Shankar, University of Michigan

Organizers:

Esra Bulbul, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Chihway Chang, University of Chicago
Elisabeth Krause, University of Arizona
Vikram Ravi, California Institute of Technology

Organizers:

Thomas Iadecola, Pennsylvania State University
Henry Lamm, Fermilab
Norman Tubman, National Aeronautics and Space Administration