FRANK WILCZEK

Quantum Connections 2026 (the sixteenth Quantum Connections in Sweden summer school) brought together graduate students and postdocs, both theoretical and experimental, to work across the quantum frontier alongside leading researchers. The school took place from 7 to 20 June 2026 at Högberga Gård in Lidingö, Sweden. The lecture slides and materials are now available below. About the school Quantum Connections is a series of summer schools for graduate students and postdocs in

No new data centers without enough clean power to run them. Call it the artificial-intelligence crime wave. AI agents are breaking through safeguards, sneaking into outside systems and hiding from monitoring. This has led AI executives including Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk to call for slowing the development of these systems. Read more here : Let Physics Regulate the AI Industry - WSJ Opinion

Frank is hard at work on a new book with the working title Futures: From Science to Purpose Through Imagination. Its central concept is that by telling us what is, science empowers us to imagine what could be, and thus to think intelligently about what should be, and to make it happen. This defines the Threefold Way. Futures is expected to appear in 2027. It will be published by Penguin Press in the U.S. and by several other outlets internationally.

Frank Wilczek and collaborators report the first experimental evidence that vacuum fluctuations can enhance superconductivity. The team observed an increase in critical temperature when the layered superconductor NbSe2 was embedded in a split-ring cavity resonator, with the critical current and critical field also rising sharply near the transition. The work, published in Nature, offers a noninvasive way to control superconductivity using engineered vacuum fields rather than

The Wilczek Quantum Center will host a symposium, "Historical and Future Perspectives of Physics and Physicists," on August 17 and 18, 2026. The event will be livestreamed and preserved online. About the symposium The history of physics has repeatedly shown that a deep appreciation of the past and a forward-looking vision are often important at critical moments of major breakthroughs. Today, physics faces profound challenges, among which artificial intelligence brings both tr

Futures, by Nobel and Templeton laureate Frank Wilczek, is an expansive project spanning a public lecture series and writings, exploring what science reveals about reality and how human imagination can shape tomorrow. It centers on a "threefold way" framework: what is (science), what could be (possibilities), and what should be (purpose). About the series Produced by Arizona State University's Department of Physics, this six-part public lecture series brings the ideas of the

A four-part lecture series delivered by Frank Wilczek as part of the Cosmology Seminar Series at Arizona State University in Spring 2026. The series traces the axion from the theoretical gap that motivated it, through its role in cosmology, to the experimental efforts now searching for it. Lecture 1: T Symmetry and the θ Parameter Date February 27, 2026 Speaker Frank Wilczek, MIT Faculty Host Alex Rojewski Abstract A crisis and an opportunity. The standard model has an ex

Alongside his research and public lectures, Frank Wilczek remained active in the classroom and the seminar room at Arizona State University through the spring of 2026, teaching and taking part in the ongoing Cosmology Seminar Series at ASU's Goldwater Center. The Cosmology Initiative at ASU Frank Wilczek is a member of the faculty of ASU's Cosmology Initiative, which bridges the Department of Physics and the School of Earth and Space Exploration and explores the deepest quest

Frank Wilczek and Sreenath K. Manikandan (Nordita, Stockholm University and KTH) were awarded first prize in the 2025 Gravity Research Foundation essay competition for their essay "Probing Quantum Structure in Gravitational Radiation." The essay explores how the quantum nature of gravity could leave measurable imprints on gravitational waves. About the Essay The Gravity Research Foundation has run its essay competition annually since 1949, and it is one of the most respected

Not everything at Quantum Connections happens at the lectern. In this lighthearted moment, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek and his wife, Betsy Devine, perform a song about Schrödinger's Cat, the famous thought experiment in which a cat is, in a sense, both alive and dead at once. It's a playful reminder that a love of physics and a sense of fun go hand in hand. Physics Set to Music Schrödinger's Cat is one of the most well-known ideas in quantum mechanics, a thought experiment t