Past Summer Workshops

Summer 2023

  • 5/28 – 6/11 Geometric and Field Theoretic Methods for Astro-, Geo-, and Bio-physical Fluids
  • 5/28 – 6/18 Theoretical Physics for Deep Learning
  • 6/04 – 7/02 Exotic Phases, Gauge Field Theories and Dynamics in Systems with Constraints
  • 6/11 – 7/09 New Opportunities in High Energy Physics
  • 6/18 – 7/16 Quantum Materials: Experimental Enigmas and Theoretical Challenges
  • 7/09 – 7/30 Stellar Interactions and the Transients They Cause
  • 7/16 – 8/06 New Directions on Strange Metals in Correlated Systems
  • 7/30 – 8/20 Traversing the Particle Physics Peaks – Phenomenology to Formal
  • 8/06 – 8/27 Statistical Physics and Adaptive Immunity
  • 8/34 – 9/03 New Frontiers for Quantum Dynamics
  • 8/20 – 9/10 Revealing the Detailed Astrophysics of Early Galaxies with JWST
  • 8/27 – 9/17 Groups and Clusters of Galaxies at the Crossroad between Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • 9/03 – 9/17 Emergent Phenomena of Strongly-Interacting Conformal Field Theories and Beyond

Summer 2022

  • 5/29 – 6/19 Interplay of Fundamental Physics and Machine Learning
  • 5/29 – 6/19 Large-Scale Structure Cosmology beyond 2-Point Statistics
  • 6/05 – 7/03 Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics with the Next Generation of Gravitational-Wave Detectors
  • 6/19 – 7/10 Learning Dynamical Models from Biophysical Data
  • 6/19 – 7/17 Programmable Quantum Matter: Many-Body Physics in the Era of Quantum Advantage
  • 7/10 – 7/31 Physics and Information Capabilities of Highly Entangled Quantum Matter
  • 7/17 – 8/07 Plasmas in Strong Gravity
  • 7/31 – 8/21 Novel States of Matter and Topological Particles in Bulk Quantum Materials
  • 8/07 – 8/28 Effective Field Theories: From Quarks to the Cosmos
  • 8/14 – 9/04 Geometry and the Quantum
  • 8/21 – 9/18 Random Geometry in Statistical Physics, Condensed Matter, and Quantum Gravity
  • 8/29 – 9/18 Searching for New Physics from the Nuclear to the LHC Scale and Beyond
  • 9/04 – 9/18 Higher Symmetry and Quantum Field Theory

Summer 2021

  • 5/30 – 6/13 Transport and Mixing of Tracers in Geophysics and Astrophysics
  • 5/30 – 6/20 Galactic Archaeology with Fundamental Stellar Parameters: Synthesizing the Power of Accurate Ages with Distances, Chemistry, and Kinematics
  • 6/06 – 6/27 Biology, Biophysics and Epidemiology of COVID-19 and other Pandemics
  • 6/13 – 7/04 Black Hole Formation, Accretion, and Outflows Through Cosmic Time
  • 6/20 – 7/11 New Directions for Quantum Dynamics in Topological, Disordered, and Correlated Systems
  • 6/27 – 7/25 Exploring Extreme Matter in the Era of Multimessenger Astronomy: from the Cosmos to Quarks
  • 7/11 – 8/01 Electronic Topology across the Correlation Spectrum
  • 7/25 – 8/29 Dark Matter from the Laboratory to the Cosmos
  • 8/01 – 8/22 Bootstrapping String Theory
  • 8/22 – 9/19 From Chaos to Hydrodynamics in Quantum Matter
  • 8/29 – 9/19 Nu Intersections: Neutrino Physics at a Crossroad
  • 9/05 – 9/19 New Discoveries in the Era of High-Resolution, Low-Noise CMB Experiments

Summer 2019

  • 5/26 – 6/09 String Theory and the Hidden Universe
  • 5/26 – 6/16 Progress after Impasse: New Frontiers in Dark Matter
  • 6/02 – 6/23 The Turbulent Life of Cosmic Baryons
  • 6/09 – 6/30 Active and Driven Matter: Connecting Quantum and Classical Systems
  • 6/16 – 7/07 Moiré Materials: Strong Correlations in Synthetic Superlattices
  • 6/23 – 7/14 Quantum Spin Liquids
  • 7/07 – 7/28 Information Processing in Single Cells
  • 7/14 – 8/04 Realizations and Applications of Quantum Coherence in Non-Equlibrium Systems
  • 7/28 – 8/18 Generalized Symmetries, Anomalies, and Observables
  • 8/04 – 8/25 Scattering Amplitudes and the Conformal Bootstrap
  • 8/11 – 9/15 The Energy Frontier Beyond LHC Run 2
  • 8/18 – 9/15 Astrophysics in the LIGO/Virgo Era
  • 8/25 – 9/15 Non-Standard Cosmology Probes

Summer 2018

  • 5/27 – 6/17 From Physics to Applications of Quantum Computers
  • 5/27 – 9/17 The Physics of Behavior: Movement, Control, and Learning
  • 6/03 – 6/24 Physical Principles Governing the Organization of Microbial Communities
  • 6/17 – 7/08 The Astrophysics of Massive Black Hole Mergers: From Galaxy Mergers to the Gravitational Wave Regime
  • 617 – 7/15 Perfect Pixels. Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology
  • 6/24 – 7/29 Topological Phases and Excitations of Quantum Matter
  • 7/15 – 8/08 Unveiling the Physics of Protoplanet Formation: Connecting Theory to Observations
  • 7/29 – 8/26 The Flavor of New Physics in Collisions
  • 8/05 – 8/26 SYK Models: From Interacting Quantum Matter to Black Holes
  • 8/19 – 9/16 Superconformal Field Theories and Geometry
  • 8/26 – 9/16 Dynamics of the Milky Way System in the Era of Gaia
  • 8/26 – 9/16 Understanding the Origin of the Baryon

Summer 2017

  • 5/28 – 6/18 After Inflation
  • 5/28 – 6/18 Quantum Gravity and New Moonshines
  • 6/04 – 6/25 Information in Quantum Field Theory
  • 6/11 – 7/02 The Packing of Continua
  • 6/18 – 70/9 Neutron Stars: Linking Nuclear Physics of the Interior to Electromagnetic Observations and Gravitational Radiation
  • 6/25 – 7/23 Correlations and Entanglement in and out of Equilibrium: from Cold Atoms to Electrons
  • 7/09 – 8/06 Astrophysics of Gravitational Radiation Sources and Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of LIGO Detections
  • 7/23 – 8/27 Reaching New Summits: The LHC at Full Strength
  • 8/06 – 8/27 Quantum Criticality in Metallic Systems
  • 8/20 – 9/17 Active Living Matter
  • 8/27 – 9/17 Vorticity in the Universe: From Superfluids to Weather and Climate, to the Universe
  • 8/27 – 9/17 Developing New Tools for Dark Matter Searches

Summer 2016

  • 5/29-6/12 New Frontiers in Far-infrared and Sub-millimeter Astronomy
  • 5/29-6/12 Light-matter Interaction and Quantum Control in Many-body Systems
  • 5/29-6/19 The Many Faces of Naturalness
  • 6/12-7/3 Testing the Laws of Gravity with Cosmological Surveys
  • 6/19-7/10 Emergence, Evolution and Effects of Black Holes in the Universe: The Next 50 Years of Black Hole Physics
  • 6/19-7/10 Entanglement Matters
  • 7/10-8/14 High Temperature Superconductors as a Window to Understanding Unconventional Strongly Correlated Physics
  • 7/10-8/7 Boundaries and Defects in Quantum Field Theories
  • 8/7-8/28 The Sequencing Revolution and the Role of Physics in High-throughput Biology
  • 8/14-9/18 The LHC Awakens: A New Energy Frontier
  • 8/21-9/11 Universal Accretion: The Physics of Mass Accretion on All Scales and in Diverse Environments
  • 8/28-9/18 Approaching the Stellar Astrophysical Limits of Exoplanet Detection: Getting to 10 cm/s

Summer 2015

  • 5/24-6/14 Understanding Strongly Coupled Systems in High Energy and Condensed Matter Physics
  • 5/24-6/14 The Dynamic Universe; Understanding ExaScale Astronomical Synoptic Surveys
  • 5/24-6/21 CSI PTA: Computation, Systematics and Inference for Pulsar-Timing Arrays and Beyond
  • 6/7-7/5 Primoridal Physics
  • 6/14-7/5 Physics and Mathematics of Viral Assembly
  • 6/21-7/12 The Physics of Accretion and Feedback in the Circum-Galactic Medium
  • 7/5-7/26 From Scattering Amplitudes to the Conformal Bootstrap
  • 7/12-8/9 Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter with Atoms and Molecules
  • 7/26-8/16 Neutrinos from Space and on Earth
  • 8/9-9/13 New Directions to Shed Light on Dark Matter
  • 8/16-9/13 Beyond Quasiparticles: New Paradigms for Quantum Fluids
  • 8/16-9/13 F-Theory at the Interface of Particle Physics and Mathematics

Summer 2014

  • 5/25-6/15 Dwarf Galaxies as Cosmological Probes
  • 5/25-6/22 Modern Trends in Quantum Magnetism
  • 6/1-6/22 Bacteria Meet Physics II
  • 6/8-6/29 Ultra-Compact Binaries as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics
  • 6/15-7/6 Fast and Furious: Understanding Exotic Astrophysical Transcients
  • 6/22-7/20 Connecting Flavor Physics with Naturalness: from Theory to Experiment
  • 7/6-8/3 Emergent Spacetime in String Theory
  • 7/20-8/10 Combining Probes in Cosmological Surveys
  • 8/3-8/31 Model Building in the LHC Era
  • 8/10-9/7 Gauge Fields in Condensed Matter, Ultracold Atoms and Beyond
  • 8/10-8/31 Many-Body Quantum Systems Far from Equilibrium
  • 8/24-9/14 The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time
  • 8/31-9/14 Radiation Driven Outflows in Stars and Quasars

Summer 2013

  • 5/26-6/30 Physics of Functional Biological Assemblies: Pushing, Pulling and Sensing
  • 5/26-6/16 Lattice Gauge Theory in the LHC Era
  • 5/25-6/16 The Origins of Stellar Clustering: From Fragmenting Clouds to the Build-Up of Galaxies
  • 5/26-6/16 The Obscured Universe: Dust and Gas in Distant Starburst Galaxies
  • 6/16-7/7 The Next Decade of Weak Lensing Science
  • 6/16-7/21 Disorder, Dynamics, Frustration and Topology in Quantum Condensed Matter
  • 7/7-8/4 Mathematics of Superconformal Field Theory
  • 7/21-8/11 The Milky Way as a Laboratory for Galaxy Formation
  • 8/4-8/25 Optical Lattice Emulators and Beyond
  • 8/11-9/1 Implications of LHC Higgs-Like Signals
  • 8/18-9/15 Dark Matter in Galaxies, the LHC and Direct and Indirect Searches: Are We Near the End of the Road?
  • 8/25-9/15 Multi-Component Many-Body Systems
  • 9/1-9/15 Astrophysical Mechanisms of Particle Acceleration and Escape from the Accelerators

Summer 2012

  • 05/20 – 06/10 Non-Gaussianity as a Window to the Primordial Universe
  • 05/20 – 06/10 A Window on the Formation of the Milky Way
  • 05/27 – 06/17 Physics of Behavior
  • 06/10 – 07/1 The Physics of Feedback Processes and Their Role in Galaxy Evolution
  • 06/10 – 07/1 Stochastic Flows and Climate Modeling
  • 06/17 – 07/1 The Evolution of Massive Stars and Progenitors of GRBs
  • 07/1 – 07/22 Exact Results in Gauge Theory and Their Applications
  • 07/1 – 07/29 Spin-Orbit Physics in Correlated Electron Systems
  • 07/22 – 08/12 The LHC Shows the Way
  • 07/29 – 08/19 Large Fluctuations and Collective Behavior in Solids
  • 08/12 – New Particle Physics at the LHC and Its Connection to Dark Matter
  • 08/19 – Evolutionary Dynamics and Information Hierarchies in Biological Systems
  • 08/19 – 09/9 Disorder, Algorithms and Complexity

Summer 2011

  • 05/22 – 06/12 Fluctuations and Response in Granular Materials
  • 05/22 – 06/05 Galaxy and Central Black Hole Coevolution: Gravitation-Wave and Multi-Messenger Astronomy
  • 05/22 – 06/05 Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity and Condensed-Matter Physics
  • 06/05 – 06/26 Stellar and Intermediate Mass Black Holes: Gravitational Physics and Radiation Sources across the Universe
  • 06/05 – 06/26 Few- and Many-Body Physics in Cold Quantum Gases Near Resonances
  • 06/12 – 07/03 Computation and Collective Behavior in Biological Systems
  • 06/26 – 07/24 A New Century of Superconductivity: Iron Pnictides and Beyond
  • 06/26 – 07/24 Year One of the LHC
  • 07/24 – 08/21 New Topological States of Quantum Matter
  • 07/24 – 08/21 Holography and Singularities in String Theory and Quantum Gravity
  • 08/14 – 09/11 A Theoretical and Experimental Vision for Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Detection
  • 08/21 – 09/11 The Galactic Bulge and Bar
  • 08/21 – 09/11 Flavor Origins

Summer 2010

  • 05/23 – 06/20 Forefront QCD and LHC Discoveries
  • 05/23 – 06/13 Strong Dynamics Beyond the Standard Model
  • 05/23 – 06/13 Critical Behavior of Lattice Models in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics
  • 06/13 – 07/04 Astrophysics and Cosmology with the 21-cm Background
  • 06/13 – 06/27 Gev and Tev Sources in the Milkyway
  • 06/20 – 07/18 From Colliders to the Dark Sector: Understanding Dark Matter at Particle Colliders and Beyond
  • 06/27 – 07/25 New Mathematical Methods in Quantum Gauge Theories
  • 07/18 – 08/08 Low Dimensional Topological Matter
  • 07/25 – 08/22 Quantum Many-Body Physics in One Dimension
  • 08/08 – 08/22 Taking Supernova Cosmology into the Next Decade
  • 08/22 – 09/12 Patterns on Thin Sheets: From stressed inanimate materials to biomembranes and growing tissues
  • 08/22 – 09/12 New Perspectives in Strongly Correlated Electrostatics in Soft Matter
  • 08/22 – 09/12 Star Formation in Galaxies: From Recipes to Real Physics

Summer 2009

  • 05/24 – 06/1 Fingerprints of the Early Universe
  • 05/24 – 06/14 String Duals of Finite Temperature and Low-Dimensional Systems
  • 05/24 – 06/14 Quantum Simulation/Computation with Cold Atoms and Molecules
  • 06/14 – 07/05 Testing General Relativity in the Cosmos
  • 06/14 – 07/05 Neutrino Physics on Earth, In the Stars, and in the Cosmos
  • 06/14 – 07/05 Wide-Fast-Deep Surveys: New Astrophysics Frontier
  • 07/05 – 07/26 Quantum Vortices and Fluctuations in Superconductors and Superfluids
  • 07/05 – 08/09 Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the Threshold
  • 07/26 – 08/16 Unity of String Theory
  • 08/09 – 09/13 Correlated Behavior and Quantum Criticality in Heavy Fermion and Related System
  • 08/16 – 09/13 Filamentous Assemblies: Complex Ordering from Biopolymers to Nano-rods
  • 08/16 – 09/13 Bacteria Meet Physics

Summer 2008

  • 05/25 – 06/22 Complexity, Disorder and Algorithms
  • 05/25 – 06/15 Gravitational Wave Astronomy
  • 06/08 – 06/29 The Physics of Graphene
  • 06/15 – 07/06 Interfaces, Topological Defects & Flexible Packings: Applied Geometry in CM
  • 06/22 – 07/20 Supersymmetry Breaking & its Mediation in Field & String Theories
  • 07/06 – 07/27 Active Galactic Nuclei: Interplay-Supermassive Bl Holes, Star Formation & Galaxy Evolution
  • 07/20 – 08/17 LHC: Beyond the Standard Model Signals in a QCD Environment
  • 07/27 – 09/07 Frontiers in Strongly Correlated Systems
  • 08/10 – 08/31 Evolution: From Atoms to Organisms
  • 08/17 – 09/07 Characteristics and Habitability of Super Earths

Summer 2007

  • 05/27 – 06/10 Neutrino Physics: Looking Forward
  • 05/27 – 06/10 Cytoskeletal Assembly & Cellular Motility
  • 06/03 – 06/17 Implications of Swift’s Discoveries about Gamma-Ray Bursts
  • 06/10 – 07/01 Modeling Galaxy Clustering
  • 06/10 – 07/01 Notions of Locomotion
  • 06/17 – 07/01 Supernovae as Cosmological Distance Indicators
  • 07/01 – 07/29 String Theory and Quantum Geometry
  • 07/01 – 07/22 Topological Phases and Applications to Quantum Information Processing
  • 07/23 – 08/12 Jamming
  • 07/29 – 09/02 Novel Aspects of Superconductivity
  • 08/12 – 09/02 Between the LHC and B Factories
  • 08/12 – 09/02 Systems Biology of Infectious Diseases

Summer 2006

  • 05/28 – 06/18 Galaxy Evolution from Large Surveys
  • 05/28 – 06/18 Cosmic Voids
  • 05/28 – 06/11 Supersolid State of Matter
  • 06/11 – 07/02 Deconstructing the Local Group: Galaxy Formation in Our Own Backyard
  • 06/18 – 07/09 Physical and Mathematical Aspects of Packing
  • 06/18 – 07/02 Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas
  • 07/02 – 07/30 Interactions, Coherence and Control in Mesoscopic Systems
  • 07/09 – 08/06 String Theory, Gauge Theory and Particle Physics
  • 07/30 – 09/03 Particle Theory in Anticipation of the LHC
  • 07/30 – 08/20 Physics Inspired by Biology
  • 08/20 – 09/10 Recent Advances in Black Hole Physics in String Theory
  • 08/20 – 09/10 Extreme Mechanics: Current Issues in Continuum and Fluid Mechanics

Summer 2005

  • 05/29 – 06/19 Ultracold Trapped Atomic Gases
  • 05/29 – 06/19 LISA Data: Analysis, Sources and Science
  • 05/29 – 06/12 Physics of the S-Process
  • 06/12 – 07/03 Novel Approaches to Climate
  • 06/19 – 07/17 Dynamics, Structure and Correlation in Glasses
  • 06/19 – 07/10New Approaches to Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
  • 07/10 – 07/31 Revealing Black Holes
  • 07/17 – 08/14 Gauge Theories and Fractionalization in Correlated Quantum Matter
  • 07/31 – 08/21 Supercosmology
  • 08/14 – 09/11 Collider Physics: from the Tevatron to the LHC to the Linear Collider
  • 08/21 – 09/11 Spatial Effects in Signal Transduction
  • 08/21 – 09/11 Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

Summer 2004

  • 05/31 – 06/27 Geometry and Materials Physics: Making the Connection
  • 05/31 – 06/27 Coherence and Coordination in the Brain: Perspectives From Olfaction And Birdsong
  • 06/06 – 06/27 The Formation of Supermassive Black Holes
  • 06/28 – 07/11 Physics Education and Outreach
  • 06/28 – 07/18 Star Formation in Galaxies
  • 06/28 – 07/18 Lepton number violation: Neutrinos, Leptogenesis, Grand Unified Theories and Beyond
  • 07/19 – 08/08 Coherence and Dissipation in Quantum Systems
  • 07/19 – 08/15 Strings, Branes and Superpotentials
  • 08/09 – 09/12 Pseudogaps in Strongly Correlated Metals
  • 08/15 – 09/12 Cosmic Acceleration: Dark Energy or New Gravitational Physics
  • 08/15 – 09/12 Strings and the Real World

Summer 2003

  • 05/26 – 06/15 Cosmology and Astrophysics with Galaxy Clusters
  • 05/26 – 06/08 Complex Networks in Biology: From Molecules to Neurons
  • 05/26 – 06/08 The Nuclear Physics of Core Collapse Supernovae
  • 06/09 – 06/29 The Microwave Background After MAP
  • 06/09 – 06/22 Magnetic Reconnection
  • 06/16 – 07/06 Exploring the Interface Between Cold Atom and Condensed Matter Physics: From Strong Correlation to Entanglement
  • 06/23 – 07/20 Theory and Phenomenology of Physics at the Tev Scale
  • 07/07 – 08/10 Competing Orders and Quantum Criticality in Correlted Electrons, Bosons and Spin Systems
  • 07/21 – 08/10 The Flavor Puzzle: Data Confronts Theory
  • 08/11 – 09/07 Time and String Theory
  • 08/11 – 08/31 Interactions and Disorder in Metals and Insulators in Two Dimensions
  • 08/18 – 09/07 Signaling, Gene Expression and Cell Fate

Summer 2002

  • 05/27 – 06/23 Underground Science
  • 05/27 – 06/23 Coulomb Effects in Soft Condensed Matter and Biomolecular Science
  • 06/03 – 06/23 Structure Formation in the Era of Large Surveys
  • 06/24 – 07/142 Astrophysical Disks
  • 06/24 – 07/07 Compact Object Populations in External Galaxies
  • 07/08 – 08/04 Advances in Field Theory and Applications to Particle Physics
  • 07/15 – 08/18 Collective Phenomena in Disordered Insulators and Glassy Systems
  • 08/05 – 09/08 Fundamentals of String Theory
  • 08/19 – 09/08 Wave Dynamics in Biological Excitable Media
  • 08/19 – 09/08 New Dimensions in String Cosmology

Summer 2001

  • 05/27 – 06/10 New Astrophysics and Cosmology with a Virtual Observatory
  • 05/27 – 06/17 Science with Wide-Field Survey Telescopes
  • 06/10 – 07/01 Compact Objects in Dense Star Clusters
  • 06/10 – 07/01 Gamma Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era
  • 06/17 – 07/08 Fundamental Issues in Quantum Gases
  • 06/17 – 07/08 Fundamental Issues in Quantum Gases
  • 07/01 – 07/29 Emergent Behavior in Correlated Electron Materials
  • 07/08 – 08/05 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and TeV Scale Physics after LEP
  • 07/29 – 08/19 Spins in Nanostructures
  • 08/05 – 09/09 Extreme String Theory: New Phenomena and Their Applications
  • 08/19 – 09/09 Flavor Physics: Standard Model and Beyond
  • 08/19 – 09/09 Enzymatic Networks and Cellular Signaling

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