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"Aspects of Symmetry"

June 5Ěý- 30, 2023

Lecturers and Topics

  • Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins): Generalized Symmetries and Holography
  • Masha Baryakhtar (Washington): Dark Matter Theory and Possible Detection Opportunities
  • Alejandra Castro (Cambridge): Topics in AdS/CFT
  • Meng Cheng (Yale): Gapped Phases and TQFT
  • Clifford Cheung (Caltech): Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetry
  • Thomas Dumitrescu (UCLA): Generalized Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory
  • Isabel Garcia Garcia (IAS + NYU / Washington): Particle Physics, Gravity, and Symmetries
  • Kenneth Intriligator (UC San Diego): SUSY and Symmetry Constraints on RG flows and IR Phases
  • Hong Liu (MIT): Entanglement, Many-Body Systems, and Operator Algebras of Quantum Gravity
  • Juan Maldacena (IAS): Quantum Aspects of Black Holes
  • John McGreevy (UC San Diego): Generalized Symmetries in CMT
  • Gregory Moore (Rutgers): Differential Cohomology and Physics
  • Andrea Puhm (Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT): Asymptotic Symmetries
  • Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Oxford): Generalized Symmetry and String / M-theory Realizations
  • Nathan Seiberg (IAS): The Power of SymmetryĚý
  • Shu-Heng Shao (Stony Brook): Noninvertible Symmetry
  • David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech): CFT and Observables on a Null PlaneĚý
  • Yifan Wang (NYU): 2d CFTs and Generalized Symmetries

Scientific Organizers: Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins), Kenneth Intriligator (UC San Diego), Shu-Heng Shao (Stony Brook)

Local TASI Organizer: Oliver DeWolfe

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2023. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of this TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory and some familiarity with the Standard Model and issues beyond it. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

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As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

TASI is supported by the University of Colorado, Boulder and The National Science Foundation.

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"Ten Years After the Higgs Discovery: Particle Physics Now and Future"

June 6Ěý- July 1, 2022

Lecturers and Topics

  • Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz) — Flavor Physics
  • J. J. Carrasco (Northwestern University) —ĚýScattering Amplitudes
  • Djuna Croon (Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham) —ĚýBaryogenesis, gravitationalĚýwaves, phase transitions
  • Sally Dawson (Brookhaven National Lab)Ěý—ĚýHiggs physics
  • Peter Graham (Stanford) — Small-Scale Experimental Searches for Axions and Dark Photons
  • Heather Gray (Berkeley)Ěý— LHC experiments
  • Daniel Green (UC San Diego)Ěý— Cosmology
  • Yonit Hochberg (Hebrew University)Ěý— Dark matter, particle physics models
  • Zhen Liu (University of Minnesota)Ěý— BSM collider probes
  • Aneesh Manohar (UC San Diego)Ěý— Effective field theory
  • Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)Ěý— Dark matter, primordial black hole
  • Matt Reece (Harvard University)Ěý— Weak gravity conjecture, axion models
  • Benjamin Safdi (Berkeley)Ěý— Dark matter, astrophysical probes
  • Philip Schuster (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)Ěý— Dark matter, light DM/dark photon
  • David Shih (Rutgers) – Machine Learning
  • Raman Sundrum (University of Maryland)Ěý— BSM overview
  • Natalia Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)Ěý—ĚýProbes based on intense beams

Scientific Organizers: LianTao Wang (University of Chicago)Ěý•ĚýStefania Gori (University of California, Santa Cruz)Ěý• JiJi Fan (Brown University)

Local TASI Organizer: Ethan Neil

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2022. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of this TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory and some familiarity with the Standard Model and issues beyond it. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

COVID-19 Impacts

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the format for TASI 2022Ěýis not yet determined. If possible consistent with university and government health requirements, we will have TASI 2022Ěýin a hybrid model where some students and lecturers attend in person, while those who prefer attend remotely. If this is not possible, TASI 2022Ěýwill take place entirely online. TASI 2021Ěýtook place entirely online, including social aspects, and was successful in that format.

Wiki

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

TASI is supported by the University of Colorado, Boulder and The National Science Foundation.

"Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Dualities"

June 7Ěý- July 2, 2021

Lecturers and Topics

  • Ahmed Almheiri (IAS) — Black Hole Information Paradox
  • Horacio Casini (Bariloche) —ĚýEntanglement in QFT
  • Henriette Elvang (Michigan) — Scattering Amplitudes
  • Netta Engelhardt (MIT) — Quantum Information in AdS/CFT
  • Patrick Hayden (Stanford) — Introduction to Quantum Information
  • Alex Maloney (McGill) — CFT2 and AdS3
  • Natalie Paquette (IAS) — Mathematics of String Dualities
  • Eric Perlmutter (IPhT Saclay) — Bootstrap for AdS/CFT
  • Mukund Rangamani (UC Davis) — Introduction to AdS/CFT
  • Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford) — Quantum Gravity in the Lab
  • Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute) — String Theory and Black Holes
  • Dam Son (Chicago) — Dualities in Many-Body Physics
  • Douglas Stanford (Stanford) — Dualities for Low-Dimensional GravityĚýĚý
  • Brian Swingle (Brandeis) — Entanglement Dynamics
  • Irene Valenzuela (Harvard) — The String Landscape and the Swampland
  • Michael Walter (Amsterdam) — Tensor Networks, QI and AdS/CFT
  • Helvi Witek (UIUC) — Gravitational Waves

Scientific Organizers: Thomas Faulkner (UIUC), Veronika Hubeny (UC Davis)

Local TASI Organizer: Oliver DeWolfe

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2021. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of this TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory and some familiarity with the Standard Model and issues beyond it. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

COVID-19 Impacts

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the format for TASI 2021 is not yet determined. If possible consistent with university and government health requirements, we will have TASI 2021 in a hybrid model where some students and lecturers attend in person, while those who prefer attend remotely. If this is not possible, TASI 2021 will take place entirely online. TASI 2020 took place entirely online, including social aspects, and was successful in that format.

Wiki

The TASI 2021Ěýwiki . PleaseĚýcheck the wiki often for updates as the month of June progresses.

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

TASI is supported by the University of Colorado, Boulder and The National Science Foundation.

"The Obscure Universe: Neutrinos and Other Dark Matters"

June 1Ěý- 26, 2020

Lecturers and TopicsĚý

  • Kev Abazajian (UC Irvine) —ĚýNeutrinos in Astrophysics and the Early Universe
  • Eric Dahl (Northwestern) —ĚýDark Matter Experiments
  • Lisa Everett (UW Madison) —ĚýQuark and Lepton Flavor Physics
  • Ayres Freitas (Pittsburgh) — The Standard Model of Particle Physics
  • Alex Friedland (SLAC) — Introduction to Neutrino Physics
  • Marilena Loverde (SUNY Stony Brook) — Introduction to Cosmology
  • Tim Linden (Stockholm) —Ěý Dark Matter Indirect Detection
  • Joe Lykken (Fermilab) — Quantum Information Science for Particle Theorists
  • Ernest Ma (UC Riverside) — Neutrino Mass Models
  • Adam Martin (Notre Dame) —Ěý Standard Model Effective Field Theories
  • Donal O'Connell (Edinburgh) —Ěý Amplitudes
  • Laura Reina (Florida State University) —Ěý Perturbative QCD Calculations
  • Martin Schmaltz (Boston University) — Introduction to Dark MatterĚýĚý
  • Michael Schmitt (Northwestern) —Ěý Statistics for Theorists
  • Kate Scholberg (Duke) —ĚýNeutrino Oscillation Experiments
  • Shufang Su (Arizona) — Collider Physics
  • Ben Jones (UT Arlington)Ěý— Neutrino Non-Oscillation Experiments

Scientific Organizers: Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern U.) Heather Logan (Carleton U.)

Local TASI Organizer: Tom Degrand

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2020. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of this TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory and some familiarity with the Standard Model and issues beyond it. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Applying to TASI

The Application formĚýis now closed.

All forms and letters were due by March 1, 2020.

Wiki

The is now available. PleaseĚýcheck the wiki often for updates as the month of June progresses.

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

TASI is supported by the University of Colorado, Boulder and The National Science Foundation.

"The Many Dimensions of Quantum Field Theory"

June 3Ěý- 28, 2019

Lecturers and TopicsĚý

  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) — Effective Field Theory
  • Clay CĂłrdova (IAS and University of Chicago)Ěý— Introduction to Supersymmetry
  • Thomas DeGrand (˛ĘĂń±¦µä) — Introduction to Lattice Methods
  • Tom Faulkner (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) — Entanglement in QFT
  • Jaume Gomis (Perimeter Institute) — SUSY Localization
  • Tom Hartman (Cornell University) — Finite Temperature QFT and Black Holes
  • Ken Intriligator (UC San Diego) — Exploring QFTs and RG Flows with SUSY
  • Juan Maldacena (IAS) — Large N
  • Max Metlitski (MIT) — Anomalies and TQFT from a Condensed Matter Perspective
  • Gregory Moore (Rutgers University) — Introduction to 2+1d Chern-Simons Theory
  • Leonardo Rastelli (YITP, Stony Brook University) — Superconformal Field Theories
  • Slava Rychkov (IHES and ENS) — Introduction to CFTs and the Bootstrap in D>2 Dimensions
  • Nathan Seiberg (IAS) — 2+1d QFT
  • David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech) — CFT in Lorentzian Signature
  • Marcus Spradlin (Brown University) — Scattering Amplitudes
  • Yuji Tachikawa (Kavli IPMU) — Anomalies and Topological Phases in the Context of Relativistic QFTs
  • Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute and ICTP-SAIFR) — S-matrix Bootstrap
  • Xi Yin (Harvard University) — 1+1D CFT

Public Lecture

  • Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

Scientific Organizers: TomĚýHartman (Cornell), Leonardo Rastelli (YITP, Stony Brook University), Nathan Seiberg (IAS) and Xi Yin (Harvard)

Local TASI Organizer: Tom Degrand

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2019. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Applying to TASI

The Application form wereĚýavailableĚýin January 2019. Applicants must submit a completed application and arrange for two professional letters of recommendation be submitted to TASI. Applicants may send potential recommenders a link to the TASI Recommendation form to submit letters.

All forms and letters were due by March 1, 2019.

Wiki

The TASI 2019 wiki is .Ěý

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

TASI is supported by the University of Colorado, Boulder and The National Science Foundation.

"Theory in an Era of Data"

June 4 - 29, 2018

Lecturers and TopicsĚý

  • Jim Cline (McGill) — Early-Universe Cosmology
  • Ciaran Williams (SUNY Buffalo) — Perturbative Field Theory
  • Frank KraussĚý(Durham) — QCD at Colliders
  • Janet ConradĚý(MIT) — Neutrinos
  • Tongyan LinĚý(UC San Diego) — Dark Matter Models and Direct Searches
  • Tim CohenĚý(Oregon) — Effective Field Theory
  • Stefania GoriĚý(Cincinnati) — Flavor Physics
  • Daniel WhitesonĚý (UC Irvine) — Statistics and Machine Learning at Colliders
  • David Hogg (NYU) — Statistics in Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics
  • Dan HooperĚý(Fermilab) — Indirect Dark Matter Detection
  • Christoph EnglertĚý(Glasgow) — Higgs Physics
  • Michelangelo ManganoĚý(CERN) — Future Colliders
  • Paddy Fox (Fermilab) — WIMPS and Supersymmetry
  • Mark Vogelsberger (MIT) — Structure Formation and N-body Simulations
  • Anson Hook (Maryland)Ěý— Axions

Public Lecture

  • Janet Conrad (MIT)Ěý— "A Deep Dive Into the Neutrino Waves"

Scientific Organizers: Tilman Plehn (Heidelberg University) and Tracy Slatyer (MIT)

Local TASI Organizer: Tom Degrand

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2018. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Applying to TASI

The Application formĚýwasĚýavailableĚýin January 2018. Applicants must submit a completed application and arrange for two professional letters of recommendation be submitted to TASI. Applicants may send potential recommenders a link to the TASI Recommendation form to submit letters.

All forms and letters were due by March 1, 2018.

Wiki

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

TASI is supported by the University of Colorado, Boulder and The National Science Foundation.

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"Physics at the Fundamental Frontier"

June 5Ěý- 30, 2017

Lecturers and Topics

  • Lara Anderson (Virginia Tech) — “Geometric Tools for String Compactifications”

  • Daniel Baumann (Amsterdam) — “Primordial Cosmology”

  • Miranda Cheng (Amsterdam) — "Moonshine"

  • Mirjam CvetiÄŤ (Penn) —Ěý “Geometry of Gauge Symmetries in F-theory”

  • Oliver DeWolfe (Colorado) — “Applications of Gauge/Gravity Duality”

  • Lance DixonĚý (SLAC) — “Amplitudeology”

  • Johanna Erdmenger (WĂĽrzburg) — “Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality”

  • Jim Halverson (Northeastern) — “String Remnants”

  • Daniel Harlow (Harvard/MIT) — “The emergence of bulk physics in AdS/CFT”

  • Matthew Headrick (Brandeis) — "Entanglement in field theory and holography"

  • Igor Klebanov (Princeton) — “Large N Models”

  • Thomas LeCompte (Argonne National Lab) — "What have we learned from the LHC so far?"

  • Luis Lehner (Perimeter) — “Gravitational wave astronomy: Status, promises and challenges”

  • Hong Liu (MIT) — "Non-equilibrium effective field theories, hydrodynamics, and emergent supersymmetry"

  • Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study) —“Simple toy models for black holes” (4 lectures + a public lecture)

  • Silviu Pufu (Princeton) — Bootstrap and CFT above Two Dimensions

  • Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) (To Be Confirmed)Ěý — “String Landscape and the Swampland”

  • LianTao Wang (Chicago) — “Particle Physics at Colliders”

  • Timo Weigand (Heidelberg) — “F-theory”

  • Xi Yin (Harvard) — "Aspects of two-dimensional conformal field theories"

Scientific Organizers: Mirjam CvetiÄŤ (University of Pennsylvania) and Igor Klebanov (Princeton University)

Local TASI Organizer: Tom Degrand

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2017. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Applying to TASI

The Application formĚýwill be availableĚýin December, 2016. Applicants must submit a completed application and arrange for two professional letters of recommendation be submitted to TASI. Applicants may send potential recommenders a link to the TASI Recommendation form to submit letters.

All forms and letters wereĚýdue by March 1, 2017.

Wiki

The 2017 TASI Wiki is now available. PleaseĚýcheck the wiki often for updates as the month of June progresses.

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

"Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics"

June 6 - July 1, 2016

The application to attend the 2016 TASI is now closed.

Lecturers and Topics

  • Matthew Schwartz (Harvard) | QCD and Collider Physics
  • Sally Dawson (BNL) | Electroweak and Higgs Physics
  • Csaba Csaki (Cornell) | Non-supersymmetric BSM Models
  • Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz) | Supersymmetric Theory and Models
  • Yuval Grossman (Cornell) | Flavor Physics
  • Andre de Gouvea (Northwestern) | Neutrino Physics
  • Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook) | Cosmology -- Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/Chicago) | Cosmology -- Large Scale Structure
  • Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS Princeton) | Cosmology -- Theory
  • Neal Weiner (NYU) | Dark Matter -- Theory
  • Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine) | Dark Matter -- Observations
  • Tracy Slatyer (MIT) | Dark Matter -- Indirect Detection
  • Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern) | Dark Matter -- Direct Detection
  • Maxim Pospelov (Victoria/Perimeter) | Dark Sectors
  • Tom LeCompte (Argonne) | Experimental Hadron Collider Physics
  • Kyle Cranmer (NYU) | Statistical Methods in Particle Physics Experiments
  • Markus Luty (UC Davis) | Recent Developments in Field Theory
  • Clifford Cheung (Caltech) | Introduction to Scattering Amplitudes
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS Princeton) | The Future of Particle Physics

Public lecture:ĚýNima Arkani-Hamed

Scientific Organizers: Rouven Essig (Stony Brook University) and Ian Low (Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University)

Local TASI Organizer: Tom Degrand

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2016. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Applying to TASI

Applicants must submit a completed application and arrange for two professional letters of recommendation be submitted to TASI. Applicants may send potential recommenders a link to the TASI Recommendation form to submit letters.

All forms and letters were due by March 1, 2016.

Wiki

TheĚýĚýis now live. PleaseĚýcheck the wiki often for updates as the month of June progresses.

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TASI 2015 —Ěý"New Frontiers in Fields and Strings"

June 1 - 26, 2015

Lecturers and Topics

  • Joao Penedones (Porto U.): Introduction to AdS/CFT
  • Raphael Flauger (Princeton IAS): Effective Field Theory
  • Nati Seiberg (Princeton IAS): Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
  • David Simmons-Duffin (Princeton IAS): Conformal Bootstrap
  • Mark van Raamsdonk (British Columbia): Entanglement Entropy I
  • Juan Maldacena (Princeton IAS): Entanglement Entropy II
  • Eva Silverstein (Stanford): String Cosmology
  • Leonardo Senatore (Stanford): Primordial Cosmology
  • Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter): Scattering Amplitudes
  • Pedro Vieira (Perimeter): Scattering and Integrability
  • Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton): Particle Phenomenology for String Theorists I
  • Riccardo Rattazzi (Lausanne): Particle Phenomenology for String Theorists II
  • John McGreevy (UCSD): Condensed matter and AdS/CM duality
  • Joe Polchinski (KITP): The Black Hole Information Problem
  • Simone Giombi (Princeton): Higher Spin - CFT Duality
  • Carlos Mafra (Cambridge): Superstring Perturbation Theory

Scientific Organizers: Joe Polchinski (KITP Santa Barbara) and Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute)

Local TASI Organizer: Tom Degrand

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2015. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Applying to TASI

Applicants must submit a completed application and arrange for two professional letters of recommendation be submitted to TASI. Applicants may send potential recommenders a link to the TASI Recommendation form to submit letters.

All forms and letters were due by March 1, 2015.

Wiki

The is now up and available to view. Please check the wiki often for updates as the month of June progresses.

As per the laws of the State of Colorado and the policies of the ˛ĘĂń±¦µä, all registrants should hereby be aware that some portion of the registration fee will be used to purchase alcoholic beverages.

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TASI 2014 —Ěý"Journeys through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for Colliders."

June 2 - 27, 2014

Lecturers

  • Chris Quigg (Fermilab): Introduction to the Standard Model
  • Thomas Gehrmann (Zurich): Introduction to QCD
  • Zvi Bern (UCLA): Spinor-helicity and unitarity methods
  • Andrey Korytov (Florida): Experimental methods at the LHC
  • Iain Stewart (MIT): Effective field theories for QCD
  • Aida El-Khadra (Illinois): QCD on the lattice
  • Stefan Hoeche (SLAC): Parton showers and Monte Carlo simulations
  • Patrick Huber (Virginia Tech): Neutrino physics
  • Zoltan Ligeti (LBNL): Flavor physics
  • Claude Duhr (Durham): Mathematical aspects of scattering amplitudes
  • Marcus Spradlin (Brown): Amplitudes in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory
  • Chris Herzog (Stony Brook): Applied holography
  • Konstantin Matchev (Florida): Physics beyond the Standard Model at colliders
  • Tao Han (Pittsburgh): Higgs physics and beyond
  • Graciela Gelmini (UCLA): The hunt for dark matter
  • Radja Boughezal (Argonne): Precision Higgs physics
  • John Joseph Carrasco (Stanford): Novel amplitude relations
  • Salman Habib (Argonne): Cosmology in the precision era
  • Aneesh Manohar (UCSD): Factorization in QCD

Scientific Organizers: Lance Dixon (SLAC) and Frank Petriello (Northwestern and Argonne)

Local TASI Organizers: Tom Degrand and K.T. Mahanthappa

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2014. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

Wiki

The is now live and available for participants. Please check the wiki often for updates as the month of June progresses.

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TASI 2013 —Ěý“Particle Physics: The Higgs Boson and Beyond”

June 3 - 28, 2013

Lecturers and Topics

  • Heather Logan (Carleton) - Higgs Bosons Within and Beyond the Standard Model
  • Frank Petriello (Northwestern) – Quantum ChromodynamicsĚý
  • Julia Thom (Cornell) -Ěý Experimental Analysis
  • Ben Grinstein (UCSD) - Flavor Physics
  • Gavin Salam (CERN) - Jets and Jet Substructure
  • Roni Harnik (Fermilab) - Dark matter
  • Fabio Maltoni (CP3, Louvain ) - Tools for Collider Physics
  • Graham Kribs (Oregon) - Supersymmetry
  • Sekhar Chivukula (MSU) - Composite Higgs Boson and Methods in Nonperturbative Field Theory
  • Elizabeth Simmons (MSU) - Top Quark and Electroweak Phenomenology
  • Lance Dixon (SLAC) - Spinor Amplitude Techniques
  • Max Tegmark (MIT) - Cosmology
  • George Fleming (Yale) - Lattice Gauge Theory
  • Christian Bauer (LBNL) - Effective Field Theory and Soft Collinear Effective Theory
  • Pilar Hernandez (Valencia) -Ěý Neutrinos
  • Ian Low (Northwestern) - Particles Beyond the Standard Model
  • Tim Tait (UCI) - Extra Dimensions

Program Co-Directors

  • Bogdan Dobrescu (Fermilab)
  • Iain Stewart (MIT)

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students.ĚýExperimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2013. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.

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TASI 2012Ěý—Ěý"Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales"

June 4 - 29, 2012

Lecturers and Topics:

Particle Physics:

  • Peter Skands (CERN) - Introduction to QCD
  • Jesse Thaler (MIT) - Super-tricks for Superspace
  • Michael Peskin (Stanford) - Weak Interactions and Higgs, Theory
  • Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers) - LHC and Higgs, Experiment
  • Veronica Sanz (York& CERN) - Collider physics
  • Aaron Pierce (Michigan) - SUSY at the LHC
  • Michele Papucci (Berkeley): SUSY Model Building
  • Jesse Shelton (Yale) - Jet substructure and new physics
  • Rouven Essig (SUNY Stony Brook) - Dark Matter from Particle Physics

Cosmology

  • Edmund Bertschinger (MIT) - Introduction to Cosmology
  • Robert Caldwell (Dartmouth) - Dark Energy
  • Fabian Schmidt (Caltech) - Modified gravity
  • Julien Lesgourgues (EPFL Lausanne & CERN) - cosmological perturbations and dark matter
  • Leonardo Senatore (Stanford) - Inflation
  • Shirley Ho (CMU& Berkeley) - What can we learn from Large Scale Structure of the Universe?
  • Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz) - DM constraints from astrophysical data

Public Lectures

  • Robert Caldwell
  • Michael PeskinĚý

Program Co-Directors: Martin Schmaltz (BU) and Elena Pierpaoli (USC)

Local Organizer: K.T. Mahanthappa

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2012. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2011 — "The Dark Secrets of the Terascale"

June 6- July 1, 2011

Lecturers and Topics:

  • John Campbell (Fermilab) - Perturbative QCD and NLO Monte Carlo Simulations
  • Daniel Chung (Wisconsin) - Early Cosmology
  • John Conway (UC Davis) - Results from CMS and the Tevatron; Detector Simulation Tutorial
  • Lisa Everett (Wisconsin) - Models of Supersymmetry Breaking
  • Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) - Astro and Particle Connections
  • Kyoungchul Kong (Kansas) - CalcHEP and PYTHIA Tutorials
  • Chris Lester (Cambridge) - Results from ATLAS; Mass and Spin Measurements
  • Zoltan Ligeti (LBL) – Heavy Flavor and CP Violation
  • Joseph Lykken (Fermilab) -ĚýThe Big Questions and Colliders to Address Them
  • Stephen Martin (Northern Illinois) – Supersymmetric Theories
  • Simona Murgia (SLAC/KIPAC) - Experimental Results on Indirect Dark Detection
  • Eduardo Ponton (Columbia) - Extra Dimensions and Beyond
  • Sasha Pukhov (Moscow) - Dark Matter Calculations with MicrOMEGAsĚý
  • Pierre Ramond (Florida) - Journeys through the Standard Model and beyond
  • Laura Reina (Florida State) - Higgs Phenomenology
  • Tarek Saab (Florida) - Experimental Results on Direct Dark Matter Detection
  • Jay Wacker (SLAC) - Interesting Anomalies and Models to Address Them
  • Lian-Tao Wang (University of Chicago) - Collider Techniques

Public Lectures

  • Pierre Ramond - Mathematics, Physics and the LHC (June 9)
  • Jonathan Feng - Dark Matter (June 21)

Program Co-Directors: Konstantin Matchev (Florida), Timothy Tait (UCI)

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2011. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2010 —Ěý“String theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale”

June 1-25, 2010

Lecturers and Topics:

Strings and Particle Physics:

  • Thomas Banks (Rutgers/UCSC) - Holography, Supersymmetry and Effective Gravitational Field Theory
  • Mirjam Cvetic (U of Penn) - String Vacua and D-branes: Perturbative and non-perturbative techniques
  • Frederik Denef (Harvard) - Vacua
  • Michael Dine (UCSC) - What LHC might tell us about String Theory
  • Jason Nielsen (UCSC) - LHC Experiments
  • Joseph Polchinski (KITP) - Introduction to Gauge-Gravity Duality
  • Nathan Seiberg (IAS) - Aspects of Supersymmetry
  • Matthew Strassler (Rutgers) - Theoretical Particle Physics at Hadron Colliders: An Introduction
  • Washington Taylor (MIT) - The scope of the landscape: Supergravity and string vacua in 10D, 6D and 4D

AdS/CFT Applications:

  • Steven Gubser (Princeton) - Applications of the Gauge-string Duality to High-temperature and Low-temperature systems
  • Sung-Sik Lee (McMaster U) - Emergent Supersymmetry and String in Condensed Matter Systems
  • Hong Liu (MIT) - From Black Holes to Strange Metals: Many-body Physics through a Gravitational Lens
  • Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR) - Non-linear Fluid Dynamics from Gravity
  • Krishna Rajagopal (MIT) - Quark-Gluon Plasma in QCD, at RHIC and LHC, and in String Theory
  • Subir Sachdev (Harvard) - Quantum Phase Transitions: from Antiferromagnets and Superconductors to Black Holes
  • Dam Tanh Son (U of Washington) - Holography for Strongly Coupled Media

Program Co-Directors: Michael Dine (UCSC), Thomas Banks (Rutgers/UCSC) and Subir Sachdev (Harvard)

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2010. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2009Ěý—Ěý“Physics of the Large and the Small”

June 1-26, 2009

Lecturers and Topics:

Particle Physics:

  • Hsin-Chia ChengĚý(Davis) - Introduction to extra dimensions
  • Roberto Contino (CERN) - The Higgs as a Pseudo-Goldstone boson
  • Patrick Fox (Fermilab) - Supersymmetry and the MSSM
  • Tony Gherghetta (Melbourne) - Warped extra dimensions and AdS/CFT
  • Eva Halkiadakis (Rutgers) - Introduction to the LHC experiments
  • Patrick Meade (IAS) - Gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking
  • Maxim Perelstein (Cornell) - Introduction to collider physics
  • Gilad Perez (Weizmann Inst.) - Flavor physics
  • David Shih (IAS) - Dynamical supersymmetry breaking
  • Witold Skiba (Yale) - Effective theories and electroweak precision constraints
  • Kathryn Zurek (Fermilab) - Unexpected signals at the LHC

Cosmology:

  • Rachel Bean (Cornell) - Dark Energy
  • Daniel Baumann (Harvard) - Inflation
  • Manoj Kaplinghat (Irvine) - Large Scale Structure
  • Elena Pierpaoli (USC) - Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Richard Schnee (Syracuse) - Dark Matter Experiment
  • Michael Turner (Chicago) - Introduction to Cosmology
  • Neal Weiner (NYU) - Dark Matter Theory

Program Co-Directors: Csaba Csaki (Cornell) and Scott Dotelson (Fermilab)

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2009. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2008Ěý—Ěý“The Dawn of the LHC Era”

June 2-27, 2008

Lecturers and Topics:

  • Howie BaerĚý(FSU) - Collider Signal II: Missing energy including SUSY, Tp, KKp etc., and dark matter connection
  • Marcela Carena (FNAL) - Collider Signal III: SM/SUSY Higgs searches at LHC, etc.
  • Luc M. Demortier (Rockefeller) - Data treatments, signal/backgrounds, statistics
  • Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL) - Intro to extra dimensions: ADD, UED, RS, and dual to TC, etc.
  • Scott Dodelson (FNAL) - WMAP, SDSS, other observations; cosmological parameters
  • Concha Gonzalez-Garcia (SUNY-Stony Brook/ICREA) - Theory of neutrino masses and oscillations, Majorana mass, phenomenology and LHC
  • Yual Grossman (Cornell) - SM flavor structure; quark mass, mixing and CPV, connection to LHC
  • Dan Hooper (FNAL) - Direct and indirect DM searches, and connection to collider physics
  • David E. Kaplan (Johns Hopkins) - Non-standard: U(1), SUL(2) x SUR(2), SU(5), SO(10), etc.
  • Will Kinney (SUNY-Buffalo) - Inflation, density perturbation, BBN, baryogenesis/leptogenesis
  • Paul Langacker (IAS) - Intro to the SM; EW precision physics
  • Lynn Orr (Rochester) - PDF, jets, QCD processes and QCD radiative corrections
  • Tilman Plehn (Edinburgh) - Kinematics to dynamics; signals/backgrounds; calculational tools/packages
  • Kate Scholberg (Duke) - Super K, SNO, Kamland, ν-less double β-decay, etc., etc.
  • Yuri Shirman (UC-Irvine) - Intro to SUSY; soft breaking parameters; SUSY breaking models and mediations
  • Gary Shiu (Madison) - Intro to strings; attempts for models; brane world, etc.
  • Tim Tait (Argonne/Northwestern) - Collider Signal I: Resonances--,Z', W', RS, lepton-quark/R-parity breaking, asymmetries
  • Tom Weiler (Vanderbilt) - Astro particle physics, AUGER, ν- telescopes etc., and new physics search
  • Peter Wittich (Cornell) - Accelerators/detectors, objects, sample searches and all that theorists should know
  • John Womersley (Sci & Tech Facilities Council, UK) - Public lecture: “Revealing the Quantum Universe – the Large Hadron Collider”

Program Co-Directors: Tao Han (UW - Madison) and Robin Erbacher (UC - Davis)

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2008. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2007 —Ěý"String Universe"

May 28 - June 22, 2007

Lecturers and Topics:Ěý

  • Mina Aganagic (Berkeley)—Topological Strings and Applications
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard)—Fundamental Physics, Cosmology and the Landscape
  • David Berenstein (UCSB)—Topics in AdS/CFT
  • Raphael Bousso (Berkeley)—CosmologyĚýand the Landscape
  • Claudio Campagnari (UCSB)—LHC Physics: An Experimentalist's Perspective
  • Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)—Topics in Cosmology
  • Eric D'Hoker (UCLA)—SUSY Gauge Theories and AdS/CFT
  • Steve Gubser (Princeton)—AdS/CFT and RHIC Physics
  • Ken Intriligator (UCSD)—Supersymmetry Breaking
  • Shamit Kachru (Stanford)—String Compactification
  • David Kutasov (Chicago)—Branes and Field Theory
  • Hong Liu (MIT)—Strings, Blackholes and Heavy Ion Collisions
  • Lisa Randall (Harvard)—TBA
  • Martin Schmaltz (Boston)—Beyond the Standard Model Particle Physics
  • Eva Silverstein (Stanford)—The Many Dimensions of String Duality
  • David Tong (Cambridge)—Solitons and Low-dimensional Gauge Theories
  • Johannes Walcher (IAS)—Calabi—Yau UniverseĚý
  • Barton Zwiebach (MIT)—Analytic Solutions in Open String Field Theory
  • and others

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2007. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY and string theory would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully-located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2006 —Ěý"Exploring New Frontiers Using Colliders and Neutrinos"

June 4 - 30, 2006

Lecturers and Topics

  • Kaustubh Agashe ( Syracuse) - Extra Dimensions
  • Kaladi Babu ( Oklahoma State) - Supersymmetric Models
  • Marco Battaglia (LBL) - International Linear Collider
  • John Beacom ( Ohio State) - Astrophysical Aspects of Neutrinos
  • Zvi Bern (UCLA) - QCD
  • Mu-Chun Chen (FNAL) - Leptogenesis
  • Janet Conrad ( Columbia) - Experimental Aspects of Neutrinos
  • John Conway (UC Davis) - Experiments at LHC
  • Sally Dawson (BNL) - Introduction to the Standard Model
  • Keith Dienes ( Arizona) - Strings
  • Scott Dodelson (FNAL) - Cosmology
  • Keith Ellis (FNAL) - Collider Physics
  • George Fuller (UCSD) - Neutrino Astrophysics
  • Boris Kayser (FNAL) - CP Violation and Neutrinos
  • Manfred Lindner ( Munich) - Long Base Line Neutrino Experiments
  • Rabindra Mohapatra ( Maryland) - Neutrino Theory
  • Michael Peskin (SLAC) - Introduction to Supersymmetry
  • Thomas Rizzo (SLAC) - Extra Z Bosons
  • David Rainwater ( Rochester) - Searching for the Higgs Boson
  • Alexei Smirnov (ICTP) - Neutrino Phenomenology
  • Petr Vogel (CalTech) - Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2006. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully-located dormitories at the University of Colorado.Ěý

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TASI 2005 —Ěý"The Many Dimensions of String Theory"

June 5 - July 1, 2005

Lecturers:

  • Mina Aganagic (Berkeley)
  • Raphael Bousso (Berkeley)
  • Shanta DeAlwis (Colorado)
  • Lance Dixon (SLAC)
  • Michael Douglas (Rutgers)
  • Gia Dvali (NYU)
  • Sergei Gukov (Harvard)
  • Joanne Hewett (SLAC)
  • Shamit Kachru (Stanford/SLAC)
  • Gordon Kane (Michigan)
  • Igor Klebanov (Princeton)
  • Samir Mathur (Ohio State)
  • Hitoshi Murayama ( Berkeley)
  • Joe Polchinski (KITP, UCSB)
  • Eva Silverstein (Stanford/SLAC)
  • David Tong (DAMTP, Cambridge)
  • Henry Tye (Cornell)
  • Angel Uranga ( Madrid)
  • Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
  • Matias Zaldarriaga (Harvard)

Topics:

  • AdS/CFT and QCD
  • Black Holes and String Theory
  • Brane Inflation
  • Cascading Gauge Theories and Their String Duals
  • Collider Physics
  • Early Universe Cosmology and Astrophysics
  • EWSB and Physics beyond the Standard Model
  • Holography and Cosmology
  • Infrared Modifications of Gravity
  • Noncritical Strings
  • Statistics of String Vacua
  • String Compactifications and Model Building
  • Topological Strings and Dualities

The program will consist of a pedagogical series of lectures and seminars. Lectures will be given over a four-week period, three or four lectures per day, Monday through Friday. The audience will be composed primarily of advanced theoretical graduate students. Experimentalists with a strong background in theory are also encouraged to apply. Some post-doctoral fellows will be admitted, but preference will be given to applicants who will not have received their Ph.D. before 2005. The minimum background needed to get full benefit of TASI is a knowledge of quantum field theory (including RGEs) and familiarity with the Standard Model. Some familiarity with SUSY would be helpful. We hope to provide some subsidy, but students will need partial support from other sources. Rooms, meals, and access to all facilities will be provided at reasonable rates in beautifully-located dormitories at the University of Colorado.