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

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

Invisible Palettes was a collaborative art and science exhibition held at Arizona State University's Harry Wood Gallery from 2 to 19 February 2026. The exhibition brought together a series of paintings by artist Penny Cagney, created in collaboration with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, Professor Nathan Newman, and the ASU SciHub team. Where art meets physics The paintings were inspired by and developed alongside the Hylighter, a device built by the ASU SciHub team that uses te

The Quantum Connections Winter School is the winter counterpart to the summer schools in Sweden, held in China each January. It gives students and young researchers an immersive experience across the fundamental and technological frontiers of quantum science, through lectures delivered by Nobel laureates and pioneering researchers from around the world. Participants explore the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, the landscape of quantum algorithms and communication,

On Friday 5 September 2025, Lund University welcomed Professor Frank Wilczek for a public lecture open to everyone. In a talk titled "My Life with Quantum Chromodynamics," he took the audience on a journey through some of the greatest ideas in modern physics. A lifetime with quantum physics Frank Wilczek is best known for discovering asymptotic freedom, a breakthrough that led to Quantum Chromodynamics, the modern theory describing how the strong force binds together the part

Frank Wilczek was among the invited speakers at the 2026 Nobel Symposium in Physics, hosted by Umeå University in Sweden from 29 June to 1 July 2026. The symposium explored metamaterials science and technology, and how light and sound can be structured in space and time. About the Symposium The symposium was organized by Associate Professor Nicolò Maccaferri and colleagues at the Department of Physics at Umeå University, within a framework set by the Nobel organisations. It b

The Quantum Connections series brings graduate students and postdocs together with leading researchers across the quantum frontier, from quantum matter and information to the fundamental structure of matter. The series runs summer schools in Sweden and winter schools in China. Explore the recent editions below. Navigate Through Past Quantum Connection Pages To explore these events in detail, use the buttons below to visit each year's Quantum Connection page: Each button links

When two black holes merge, the newly formed black hole "rings down," radiating gravitational waves at a set of characteristic frequencies known as quasinormal modes. In this work, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek and Sreenath K. Manikandan show that nonlinear gravitational effects cause these long-lived modes to become quantum mechanically squeezed, a subtle quantum correlation imprinted on the radiation. For the fundamental mode of a Schwarzschild black hole, they estimate the