Past Symposia
The First Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Lewis, Wisconsin, 14–18 May 1997
Historical Perspectives and Philosophical Problems in the Unification of Physics
The Second Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Lewis, Wisconsin, 13–17 May 1998
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Interplay of Physics and Mathematics
The Third Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Lewis, Wisconsin, 5–9 May 1999
The Field Concept in Physics
The Fourth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Lewis, Wisconsin, 10–14 May 2000
Issues in Modern Cosmology
The Fifth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota, 30 May–3 June 2001
The Quantum Nature of Gravitation, Space, and Time
The Sixth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota, 15–19 May 2002
Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Physics
The Seventh Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Seven Pines Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota, 7–11 May 2003
The Concept of the Vacuum in Physics
The Eighth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Outing Lodge at Pine Point near Stillwater, Minnesota, 5–9 May, 2004
Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, and Quantum Computation
The Ninth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Outing Lodge at Pine Point near Stillwater, Minnesota, 4–8 May 2005
The Classical-Quantum Borderlands
The Tenth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Outing Lodge at Pine Point near Stillwater, Minnesota, 3–7 May 2006
Probability and Improbability in Science
The Eleventh Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Outing Lodge at Pine Point near Stillwater, Minnesota, 2–6 May 2007
Emergence: From Physics to Biology
The Twelfth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Outing Lodge at Pine Point near Stillwater, Minnesota, 7–11 May 2008
The Unseen Universe: Dark Energy and Dark Matter
The Thirteenth Annual Seven Pines Symposium
Outing Lodge at Pine Point near Stillwater, Minnesota, 6–10 May 2009
Effective Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics
The Fourteenth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota, 5–9 May 2010
Decoherence and Entanglement
The Fifteenth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 18–22 May 2011
The Origins of Life
The Sixteenth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 16–20 May 2012
Analogy and Duality in Physics
The Seventeenth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 15–19 May 2013
The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics
The Eighteenth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 14–18 May 2014
History of Quantum Mechanics: Beyond the Formative Period
The Nineteenth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 13–17 May 2015
General Relativity; a Hundred Years After its Birth
The Twentieth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 11–15 May 2016
Big questions: some fundamental problems in physics
The Twenty First Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 17–21 May 2017
Black Holes in the Spotlight
The Twenty Second Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 16–20 May 2018
What Counts as Evidence?
The Twenty Third Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 15–19 May 2019
Quantum computers: imminent or illusion?
The 2020 and 2021 Seven Pines symposia were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Twenty Fourth Seven Pines Symposium
The Outing Lodge, Stillwater, Minnesota. 11–15 May 2022
Foundations of Thermal and Statistical Physics
