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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,

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