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The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is proud to host the 15th Annual Misel Family Lecture. This lecture is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Questions? Please contact us at ftpi@umn.edu or

Register for the workshop "Continuous Advances in QCD" now. The workshop will be hosted by FTPI May 12-14. 2022.

The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the inaugural Larkin Award in Theoretical Physics 2022.

After observing an excess of x-rays from neutron stars, a team of researchers found that the anomaly may have been caused by axions, hypothetical particles that could help scientists solve several

Professor Misha Voloshin was one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. He passed from heart failure on March 20, 2020.

FTPI Professor Boris Shklovskii was jointly awarded the 2019 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Elihu Abrahams and Alexei Efros by the American Physical Society

FTPI Professor Misha Shifman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in May 2019. Membership in the Academy is one of the highest honors given to an engineer or scientist.

In August of 2018, FTPI Professor Andrey Chubukov was awarded the John Bardeen Prize for "Seminal contributions to the theory of unconventional superconducivity, including applications to the

In April of 2018, FTPI Director Keith Olive was awarded the Hans A. Bethe Prize from the American Physical Society. The Hans A. Bethe prize is presented annually by the American Physical Society for