William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota

The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is a research institute in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering. FTPI was largely the work of physics Professor Emeritus, Stephen Gasiorowicz and University alumnus and Twin-Cities real-estate developer William I. Fine. The Institute officially came into existence in January 1987. FTPI faculty consists of seven permanent members: Alex Kamenev, Keith Olive, Mikhail Shifman, Boris Shklovskii, Arkady Vainshtein, Mikhail Voloshin, and Andrey V. Chubukov as well as postdoctoral and graduate students.

The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute has on Oversight Committee consisting of 8 members. The Oversight Committee is essentially a board of directors that make decisions concerning the staffing and budgeting of the Institute.

The Misel Family Lecture Series

The Irving and Edythe Misel Family Lecture Series, hosted by FTPI, invites physicists from around the world to the University of Minnesota to discuss physics with the general public. It is funded by a generous gift from the Edythe and Irving Misel family. The list of the Misel Lecturers to date is: 2006: Frank Wilczek (2004 Nobel Prize in Physics), 2007: Leo Kadanoff (1980 Wolf Prize), 2008: Jim Peebles (1982 Heineman Prize), 2009: Helen Quinn (2000 Dirac Medal), 2010: N. David Mermin (2010 Majorana Prize), 2011: Roger Blandford (1998 Heineman Prize), 2012: John Ellis (2005 Dirac Medal), 2013: Eric Cornell (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics), 2014: Andrei Linde (2012 Fundamental Physics Prize).

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