The Peking University Summer School International 2023 on Fundamental Physics offers students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in physics a unique opportunity to attend a series of courses specially prepared at Peking University in Beijing, China.

Several scientists from around the world share their knowledge about a wide range of topics in the fields of particles and fields, astrophysics, condensed matter physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, computing, and interdisciplinary knowledge in modern physics. Each course is divided into five or six lectures, starting from the theoretical foundation, all the way to the forefront of research in the corresponding fields. Lectures, discussions, visits to the facilities and experimental areas, and field trips are also part of the program. The selected students will find studying in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment an extremely enriching personal experience.

Candidates of all nationalities are welcome to apply for the program. The applicants, who are an undergraduate student in physics and should have completed by July 2023 at least two years of fulltime studies at university level, have both a CV and at least one recommendation letters from your lecturers in PDF format requested by sending to sun.y@pku.edu.cn. The applicants are expected to have a good knowledge of English.

The program will provide the admitted students with visa application documents, accommodation on campus, and travel grants.

Application deadline: 12 noon CST on 30 June 2023.

Confirmed lecturers (to update)

Alfred H. Mueller  High-Energy Nuclear/Particle Physics

Enrico Fermi Professor of Physics, Columbia University

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Andrius Baltuška  Diode pumped solid state lasers

University Professor, Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology

Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Ankur R. Desai  Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Professor, Department Chair in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union

Anthony Zee  Theoretical physics, science popularization writing

Professor, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

David A. Weitz  Colloid physics, biophysics and microfluidics

Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University

Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Gerrit E.-W. Bauer  Theoretical condensed matter theory

Professor, Tohoku University

Professor, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Gian Francesco Giudice  Collider Physics

Head, Theoretical Physics Department, CERN

Academician of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice

John E. Hopcroft  Theoretical computer science

IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science, Cornell University

Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences