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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 6, 2026
12:00 pm
IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar
Acoustic Levitation in the van der Waals Regime
Albert Isaac Nazeeri,
Stanford,
November 6, 2026
2:00 pm
TAPIR Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
White Dwarf Physics Across Ten Orders of Magnitude
Dang Pham,
McCray Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and JILA,
University of Colorado, Boulder,
November 9, 2026
1:30 pm
High Energy Theory Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Glimpses of the (quantum) black hole interior
Shada Ali Ahmad,
New York University,














