Welcome
Welcome to the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. True to the groundbreaking discoveries that have marked theoretical physics at Caltech, the Burke Institute will strengthen Caltech's leading role in humanity's quest to discover fundamental laws of nature and to explain natural phenomena at all scales—from subatomic, atomic, and molecular scales to the scales of celestial objects and the universe itself. Read more
Seminars
All Events
January 9, 2026
11:00 am
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Constraints on Long-Range Forces in De Sitter Space
Kurt Hinterbichler,
Case Western Reserve University,
January 9, 2026
12:00 pm
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Limitations of Noisy Geometrically Local Quantum Circuits
Joel Rajakumar,
University of Maryland,
January 12, 2026
4:00 pm
High Energy Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
CMB constraints on non-minimally coupled ultralight dark matter
Subhajit Ghosh,
University of Texas, Austin,