skip to main content

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
A Grover-Accelerated Search for Dark Matter
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,

Connect With Us

Stay up to date on the latest from Burke Institute

jpg