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
November 6, 2024
11:00 am
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Quantum gravity corrections to absorption and emission of 4d near-extremal black holes in supergravity and Einstein gravity
Anna Biggs,
Princeton University,
November 7, 2024
12:00 pm
Special Quantum Matter Seminar
Identifying the topological order of quantized half-filled Landau levels through their daughter states
November 7, 2024
1:00 pm
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy
Brandon Rayhaun,
Stony Brook University,