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"The Standard
Model and Beyond"
July 16 - July 27, 2007
The deadline for application has now passed.
We are unable to accept any further applications
for this year's program.
2007
Program
Following on the PiTP 2005
program on collider physics, PiTP 2007 will focus on
particle physics phenomenology with special emphasis on
model building. The goal will be to help young
physicists prepare for the physics that will emerge from
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The program is open
to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in particle
theory/string theory/particle experiment who are familiar
with the basics of the standard model. To assist the
students in preparing for the school, a list of reading
material will be made available on this website several
weeks before the start of the program. PiTP 2007 will be organized more like
a workshop than a school, with three hour-long lectures in the mornings,
and afternoons devoted to study groups, tutorials, problem sessions,
and discussions with lecturers. Active student
participation is expected.
Professors Michael
Dine (University of California at Santa Cruz)
and Nathan
Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study) will be
the Scientific Directors for the 2007 program.
A partial
list of lecturers and organizers for PiTP 2007 includes: Nima
Arkani-Hamed (Harvard University), Michael
Dine (SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz), Stephen
D. Ellis (University of Washington), Igor
Klebanov (Princeton University), Paul Langacker
(Institute for Advanced Study), Markus
A. Luty (University of Maryland), Juan
Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study), Aneesh
V. Manohar (University of California, San Diego), Konstantin
Matchev (University of Florida), Chiara
R. Nappi
(Princeton University), Yosef
Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science), Michael
E. Peskin (SLAC, Stanford University), Nathan
Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study), Scott
Thomas (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey),
and Edward
Witten (Institute for Advanced Study).
Background on PiTP
Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) is
an intensive two-week summer program designed for graduate
students and postdoctoral scholars considering a career in theoretical physics.
First held by the School of Natural Sciences at the
Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 2002,
the PiTP program is designed to provide lecture courses
and informal sessions on the latest advances and open
questions in various areas of theoretical physics.
One of the goals of the program is to help
the physics community train the next generation of
scholars in theoretical physics. A special effort is made
to reach out to women and minorities, as well as to
graduate students in small universities who typically do
not have the same opportunities and access to leaders in
the field as graduate students in large research
institutions.
Prospects in Theoretical Physics builds on
the strong relationship of the research groups at the
Institute and Princeton University, and many faculty
members from the physics departments at
both institutions are actively involved in the program
together with scientists from neighboring institutions.
Program History: 2002 - 2006
The pilot program in the summer of 2002
was an introduction to string theory tailored to graduate
students entering the field, where much attention was paid
also to particle phenomenology and cosmology. PiTP
2003 was devoted to the problems and techniques at the
interface of particle physics and cosmology. PiTP 2004
was a program for advanced graduate students in string theory,
while PiTP 2005 was designed to provide an introduction to collider
physics. Finally, the 2006 Program -
"Applications of String Theory" - covered recent
advances in string theory that have found applications to
gauge theories, integrable models, cosmology and
mathematics.
Please see the links below for an
Application Form and tentative Program Schedule. For further information, please contact
Susan Higgins,
(609) 734-8389; e-mail: shiggins@ias.edu
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