Theoretical Advanced Study Institute
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 | Website | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | June 6 - July 1 | Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics | TASI 2016 | ||||
| 2015 | June 1 - 26 | New Frontiers in Fields and Strings | videos | writeups | TASI 2015 | ||
| 2014 | June 2 - 27 | Journeys through the Precision Frontier: Amplitudes for Colliders | videos | writeups | book | TASI 2014 | |
| 2013 | June 3 - 28 | Particle Physics: The Higgs Boson and Beyond | videos | writeups | TASI 2013 | ||
| 2012 | June 4 - 29 | Searching for New Physics at Small and Large Scales | videos | writeups | book | TASI 2012 | |
| 2011 | June 6 - July 1 | The Dark Secrets of the Terascale | videos | writeups | book | TASI 2011 | |
| 2010 | June 1 - 25 | String theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale | videos | writeups | book | TASI 2010 | |
| 2009 | June 1 - 26 | Physics of the Large and the Small | videos | writeups | book | TASI 2009 | |
| 2008 | June 2 - 27 | The Dawn of the LHC Era | videos | writeups | book | TASI 2008 | |
| 2007 | May 28 - June 22 | String Universe | videos | writeups | TASI 2007 | ||
| 2006 | June 4 - 30 | Exploring New Frontiers Using Colliders and Neutrinos | writeups | book | TASI 2006 | ||
| 2005 | June 5 - July 1 | The Many Dimensions of String Theory | writeups | TASI 2005 | |||
| 2004 | June 6 – July 2 | Physics in D greater than or equal to 4 | writeups | book | TASI 2004 UCD website | ||
| 2003 | June 2 – 27 | Progress in String Theory | writeups | 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.