The PKU Summer School International 2023 on Fundamental Physics
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