Welcome
Welcome to the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. By connecting researchers from around the world at Caltech, the Burke Institute provides a hub for the exchange of ideas and fosters cross-continent and cross-discipline collaborations. It is our mission to advance humanity's quest to expand our understanding of 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 13, 2026
12:00 pm
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Learning the structure of open quantum systems
Laura Lewis,
University of California, Berkeley,
November 16, 2026
1:30 pm
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
TBA
Zachary Bogorad,
Fermilb,
November 19, 2026
2:30 pm
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Classical algorithms for sparse random Hamiltonians via free probability
Matthew Ding,
Stanford,














