INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY HOSTS SUMMER PROGRAM IN COLLIDER PHYSICS

June 21, 2005, Princeton, N.J. – Prospects in Theoretical Physics, an intensive two-week summer program geared specifically to graduate students considering a career in theoretical physics, will take place at the Institute for Advanced Study from July 18 to 29. First held at the Institute in 2002, Prospects in Theoretical Physics has, in past years, covered topics ranging from string theory to cosmology.

This year’s program is designed to prepare young physicists for the physics that will emerge from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is an accelerator currently under construction in Geneva, Switzerland, that will bring protons into head-on collisions at higher energies than ever achieved before, and it is hoped that it will assist scientists in their efforts to better understand the structure of matter and to discover supersymmetry.

"This exciting program offers the next generation of scholars in theoretical physics the chance to learn the latest advances from the leaders in the field," says Chiara Nappi, Professor of Physics at Princeton University, one of the program organizers. "We make a special effort to reach out to women, minorities, and those in small universities who may not have the same opportunities as those in large research institutions."

In addition to Professor Nappi, this year’s organizers are Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study and Igor Klebanov of Princeton University. The program’s lecturers will include Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University); Lance Dixon (SLAC, Stanford University); Jonathan Feng (University of California, Irvine); Ian Hinchliffe (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida); Hitoshi Murayama (University of California, Berkeley); Michael Peskin (SLAC, Stanford University); Heidi Schellman (Northwestern University); Scott Thomas (Stanford University); Christopher Tully (Princeton University); and Dieter Zeppenfeld (University of Karlsruhe, Germany).

Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2005 is hosted by the Institute’s School of Natural Sciences and receives funding from The Concordia Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

For further information about the program, please call (609) 734-8389 or visit www.ias.edu/pitp.