Theoretical Advanced Study Institute
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The Theoretical Advanced Study Institute or TASI is a four-week summer school in high-energy physics or astrophysics held yearly at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The school is meant primarily for advanced graduate students and consists of a series of pedagogical lectures on selected topics given by active researchers in the field. TASI is the most common summer school attended by high-energy physics graduate students in the United States.
Writeups of the TASI lectures are traditionally collected into a published volume each year, creating a valuable resource for students hoping to learn about current research topics in an accessible way. The writeups are typically also posted by the lecturers on arXiv.org, providing freely-accessible web-based sources on various physics topics. Since 2007, TASI has also posted video recordings of the lectures online.
Recent TASI schools
| Year | Date | Theme | Notable speakers | Lectures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | June 3 - 28 | The Frontiers of Particle Theory | |||
| 2023 | June 5 - 30 | Aspects of Symmetry | Juan Maldacena Nathan Seiberg | ||
| 2022 | June 6 - July 1 | Ten Years After the Higgs Discovery: Particle Physics Now and Future | Sally Dawson Philip SchusterRaman Sundrum | ||
| 2021 | June 7 - July 2 | Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Dualities | Henriette Elvang Netta EngelhardtPatrick HaydenMonika Schleier-SmithAshoke SenDouglas Stanford | ||
| 2020 | June 1 - 26 | The Obscure Universe: Neutrinos and Other Dark Matters | Kate Scholberg | ||
| 2019 | June 3 - 28 | The Many Dimensions of Quantum Field Theory | Nima Arkani-Hamed Juan MaldacenaNathan SeibergPedro VieiraSlava Rychkov | ||
| 2018 | June 4 - 28 | Theory in an Era of Data | Dan Hooper | ||
| 2017 | June 5 - 30 | Physics at the Fundamental Frontier | Juan Maldacena Cumrun Vafa Igor Klebanov | ||
| 2016 | June 6 - July 1 | Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics | Nima Arkani-Hamed Matias Zaldarriaga | ||
| 2015 | June 1 - 26 | New Frontiers in Fields and Strings | Joe Polchinski Juan Maldacena Pedro Vieira | ||
| 2014 | June 2 - 27 | Journeys through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for Colliders | Chris Quigg | ||
| 2013 | June 3 - 28 | Particle Physics: The Higgs Boson and Beyond | Max Tegmark | ||
| 2012 | June 4 - 29 | Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales | Michael Peskin | ||
| 2011 | June 6 - July 1 | The Dark Secrets of the Terascale | Pierre Ramond | ||
| 2010 | June 1 - 25 | String theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale | Tom Banks Joe Polchinski Subir Sachdev | ||
| 2009 | June 1 - 26 | Physics of the Large and the Small | Michael Turner | ||
| 2008 | June 2 - 27 | The Dawn of the LHC Era | David E. Kaplan Bogdan Dobrescu | ||
| 2007 | May 28 - June 22 | String Universe | Nima Arkani-Hamed Lisa Randall David Tong Barton Zwiebach Eva Silverstein Mina Aganagic | ||
| 2006 | June 4 - 30 | Exploring New Frontiers Using Colliders and Neutrinos | Keith Ellis Alexei Smirnov Michael Peskin | ||
| 2005 | June 5 - July 1 | The Many Dimensions of String Theory | David Tong Joe Polchinski Eva Silverstein | ||
| 2004 | June 6 – July 2 | Physics in D greater than or equal to 4 | George Sterman Raman Sundrum | ||
| 2003 | June 2 – 27 | Progress in String Theory | Juan Maldacena Eva Silverstein |
History
The first TASI was held in 1984 at the University of Michigan. Subsequent TASIs were held at Yale (1985), Santa Cruz (1986), Santa Fe (1987), and Brown (1988). Since 1989 TASI has been located in Boulder.