FTPI News
Primordial Helium measured to most precise fraction to date
FTPI Professor Keith Olive and MIfA Professor Evan Skillman, along with a team of international physicists, have published a new measurement of primordial Helium in the most "precise
2026 Larkin Awards announced
The Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is proud to announce the 2026 Larkin Award recipients.
2026 Misel Family Public Lecture
19th Annual Misel Lecture with Professor Girvin, Yale University. Wednesday, October 28th @ 7:00 pm in the McNamara Alumni Center.
New A.S. Fine Chair named
Professor Maxim Pospelov named the new A.S. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics.
Larkin Award - Call for 2026 Nominations
The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Larkin Award in Theoretical Physics 2024.
Dark Matter and Ultra-relativistic Freeze-out
A recent paper on dark matter published in Physical Review Letters, is highlighted on phys.org by author Sam Jarman.
New Theoretical Framework for Analysing Decoherence in Non-linear Resonators Used to Create Bosonic Qubits
Researchers including FTPI's own Prof. Alex Kamenev have presented a "new theoretical framework for analysing decoherence in nonlinear resonators used to create bosonic qubits."
2025 Larkin Awards announced
The Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is proud to announce the 2025 Larkin Award recipients.
2025 Misel Family Public Lecture
18th Annual Misel Lecture with Professor Thorne, California Institute of Technology. Wednesday, October 29th @ 7:00 pm in the McNamara Alumni Center.
Pospelov awarded 2024 Frontiers of Science Award
FTPI Professor Maxim Pospelov was awarded a 2024 Frontiers of Science Award for his 2014 article, "Neutrino Trident Production: A Powerful Probe of New Physics with Neutrino Beams"
NASA’s MN Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) Student Symposium
John T. Tate Hall will play host to NASA’s MN Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) Student Symposium on Saturday, February 22, 2025 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.
FTPI Researchers Uncover New Mechanism for Unconventional Superconductivity
Fine Theoretical Physics Institute postdoc researcher Yasha Gindikin and Professor Alex Kamenev recently published a paper highlighted by Physics Magazine for its potential to reshape our