Visiting Scholars
The Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics hosts Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholars, Moore Distinguished Scholars, and other visitors with the goal of supporting collaborations that produce new schools of thought and new areas of investigation. This cross-pollination of bold ideas is foundational to the Institute.
Current visitors
| Visitor | Caltech host | Affiliation |
| Emanuele Berti | Yanbei Chen | Univ. Missisippi |
| Todd Brun | John Preskill | USC |
| Stanley Deser | John Schwarz | Brandeis Univ. |
| Olivier Dore | Jamie Bock | JPL |
| Steve Drasco | Yanbei Chen | Albert Einstein Institute |
| Pavel Fileviez Perez | Mark Wise | MPIK |
| Marc Favata | Yanbei Chen | Montclair State Univ. |
| Stephen Hawking | Tom Soifer | Cambridge Univ |
| Martin Houde | Tom Phillips | Univ. Western Ontario |
| Mansi Manoj Kasliwal | Sterl Phinney | Carnegie Observatories |
| Daniel Lidar | Gil Refael | USC |
| Ron Yitzhak Lifshitz | Mike Cross | Tel Aviv Univ. |
| Anthony Piro | Christian Ott | Carnegie Observatories |
| Leonid Pryadko | John Preskill | UC Riverside |
| Michael Ramsey-Musolf | Bradley Filippone | Univ. Massachusetts |
| Re'em Sari | Sterl Phinney | Hebrew Univ. |
| Piotr Sulkowski | Hirosi Ooguri | Univ. of WArsaw |
| David Tsang | Christian Ott | McGill Univ. |
| Michele Vallisneri | Yanbei Chen | JPL |
