The William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute is a research institute in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering. FTPI was largely the work of physics Professor Emeritus, Stephen Gasiorowicz and university alumnus and Twin Cities real-estate developer William I. Fine.[1] The institute officially came into existence in January 1987.[2] FTPI faculty consists of six permanent members: Andrey V. Chubukov, Alex Kamenev, Keith Olive, Maxim Pospelov, Mikhail Shifman, and Boris Shklovskii.[3] The institute has on Oversight Committee consisting of ten members.[4] The Oversight Committee is the board of directors that make decisions concerning the staffing and budgeting of the institute.[5]
The institute is located at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus, in Tate Hall.[6]