FTPI was largely the work of physics Professor Emeritus, Stephen Gasiorowicz and university alumnus and Twin Cities real-estate developer William I.
[2] FTPI faculty consists of six permanent members: Andrey V. Chubukov, Alex Kamenev, Keith Olive, Maxim Pospelov, Mikhail Shifman, and Boris Shklovskii.
The proceedings of the previous conferences – they are held biannually – reveal the developments of QCD and related theories from the early 1990s.
Keith Olive is a current Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Physics[15] and was awarded the 2018 Hans Bethe Prize.
[23] Mikhail Shifman was honored with the Lilienfeld Prize (2006),[24] and elected as Laureate of Les Chaires Internacionales de Recherche Blaise Pascal (2007).
This grant is entitled "Experimental and Theoretical High Energy Physics" and helps to support faculty and postdoctoral salaries.