During 2006-07 FTPI was pursuing an active visitor program related to high energy physics. The high energy group hosted 31 short-term and 4 long-term visitors.

The visitor program serves two main purposes: to enhance the standing of FTPI in the world physics community, and to promote the highest modern level of research in FTPI and the School of Physics and Astronomy. The visitors invited to FTPI over the last year are actively working researchers in all the directions of study currently pursued in FTPI:

1. Theoretical and phenomenological studies of new models of particle theories
2. Interfacing between high energy physics, cosmology, and astrophysics
3. Structure and properties of the vacuum and of nonperturbative configurations in supersymmetric theories
4. Non-Abelian dynamics in supersymmetric theories
5. Applications of QCD to high energy scattering of hadrons and to properties of hadrons
6. Theory and phenomenology of hadrons containing heavy quarks

These topics are among the most widely and actively researched throughout the high energy physics community, and advances in this research are of great interest. Therefore, these studies will be continued at FTPI into the 2007-08 academic year. We are also planning to maintain our active and successful visitor program.

The main event of the FTPI high energy program for 2007-08 will be the Workshop on Continuous Advances in QCD to be held on May 15-18, 2008. The workshop will be the eighth meeting in a series of workshops organized biannually by the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute. These workshops became a highly respected event in the high-energy theoretical community, and summarize the latest developments in quantum chromodynamics and gauge theories at large. The workshop is expected to continue our tradition of bringing together theorists whose research is focused on a large variety of topics at the cutting edge of QCD, including supersymmetric tools, holographic descriptions of QCD, large-N methods, heavy quarks, and others.

Inside the School of Physics and Astronomy, the Institute continues to support visitors in the field of theoretical physics, run a regular seminar in high energy physics and an informal lunch seminar in the same field.