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 transformative...

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 Futures project...

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 explanatory gap....