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The Bahamas Advanced Study Institute, and the associated Conferences ("BASIC"), was informally established in 2016 by Physics Professors Thomas Curtright (University of Miami) and Eduardo Guendelman (Ben Gurion University), who were interested to create a forum for studies in theoretical physics and related fields in the tropics, in an English language environment, with relative ease of access to research scientists from points within the United States. Research was to be carried out by conference and workshop participants, by short term visitors, and eventually by long term members of the Institute.

Soon after being established, BASIC held its inaugural winter workshop, at Stella Maris, Long Island, The Bahamas, in 2016. Conferences and workshops have been held each year since 2016 (with the exception of 2021), all at Stella Maris.

The current long term members are: Thomas Curtright, Eduard Guendelman Jenny Wagner, and Peter West.