From January through April each year, the Aspen Center for Physics hosts between six and eight one-week winter conferences. These single-session meetings, with typical attendance of about 80, are focused on the latest developments in the core physics areas of the Center. The details of the format vary, but most have a set of invited speakers, additional speakers drawn from the conference participants, and poster sessions that give an opportunity for all participants to present and discuss their work.
2027 Winter Conferences
Winter application deadlines for January and February conferences is September 15 and March conferences is September 30.
February 7 - 12
Emergent Quantum Matter Across Scales: From Moiré Platforms and Quantum Simulation to AI-Driven Theory
March 21 - 26
Adaptive Quantum Circuits: From Nonequilibrium Many-Body Physics to Quantum Information Processing
January 3 - 8
Physics of Life at the Nanoscale
Organizers:
Aaron Hoskins, University of Wisconsin Madison
Thomas Perkins, JILA, University of Colorado & NIST
January 10 - 15
Multimessenger Probes of New Scales in Physics
Organizers:
Bhaskar Dutta, Texas A&M
Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Peisi Huang, University of Nebraska
Louis Strigari, Texas A&M
January 17 - 22
Fundamental Physics from the Primordial Era with Galaxy Surveys
Organizers:
Daniel Green, University of California, San Diego
Mikhail Ivanov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Oliver Philcox , Stanford University
Jamie Sullivan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 7 - 12
Emergent Quantum Matter Across Scales: From Moiré Platforms and Quantum Simulation to AI-Driven Theory
Organizers:
Debanjan Chowdhury, Cornell University
Dahlia Klein, University of Chicago
Yahui Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
February 28 - March 5
World Models: Discovering and Simulating Physics at Scale
Organizers:
Randall Balestriero, Brown University
Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute
Julia Kempe, New York University
Yann LeCun, New York University
March 7 - 12
Cosmological Signals from the Dark Ages to the Present
Organizers:
Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv University
Anastasia Fialkov, University of Cambridge
Smadar Naoz, University of California Los Angeles
March 14 - 19
Frontiers of quantum science with atom and molecule tweezer arrays
Organizers:
Alex Burgers, University of Michigan
Jacob Covey, University of Chicago
Matt Jaffe, Montana State University
Nelson Oppong, California Institute of Technology
March 21 - 26
Adaptive Quantum Circuits: From Nonequilibrium Many-Body Physics to Quantum Information Processing
Organizers:
Thomas Iadecola, Penn State University
Crystal Noel, Duke University
Maika Takita, IBM
Justin Wilson, Louisiana State University