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 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 Lectures2024June 3 - 28The Frontiers of Particle Theory2023June 5 - 30Aspects of SymmetryJuan Maldacena
Nathan Seiberg2022June 6 - July 1Ten Years After the Higgs Discovery: Particle Physics Now and FutureSally Dawson
Philip Schuster
Raman Sundrum2021June 7 - July 2Black Holes, Quantum Information, and DualitiesHenriette Elvang
Netta Engelhardt
Patrick Hayden
Monika Schleier-Smith
Ashoke Sen
Douglas Stanford 2020June 1 - 26The Obscure Universe: Neutrinos and Other Dark MattersKate Scholberg videos2019June 3 - 28The Many Dimensions of Quantum Field TheoryNima Arkani-Hamed Juan Maldacena
Nathan Seiberg
Pedro Vieira
Slava Rychkovvideos2018June 4 - 28Theory in an Era of DataDan Hoopervideosbook 2017 June 5 - 30 Physics at the Fundamental Frontier videos 2016 June 6 - July 1 Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics videos 2015 June 1 - 26 New Frontiers in Fields and Strings videos book 2014 June 2 - 27 Journeys through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for Colliders videos book 2013 June 3 - 28 Particle Physics: The Higgs Boson and Beyond videos 2012 June 4 - 29 Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales videos book 2011 June 6 - July 1 The Dark Secrets of the Terascale videos book 2010 June 1 - 25 String theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale videos book 2009 June 1 - 26 Physics of the Large and the Small videos book 2008 June 2 - 27 The Dawn of the LHC Era videos book 2007 May 28 - June 22 String Universe videos 2006 June 4 - 30 Exploring New Frontiers Using Colliders and Neutrinos book 2005 June 5 - July 1 The Many Dimensions of String Theory 2004 June 6 – July 2 Physics in D greater than or equal to 4 book 2003 June 2 – 27 Progress in String Theory book
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.
External links Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI) TASI lecture writeups on INSPIRE-HEP TASI Lectures on strings, branes, M-theory, quantum gravity, and related topics