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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 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,
November 9, 2026 4:00 pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

Converting fractional charges into fractional Majorana modes at quantum Hall--spin-liquid interfaces
Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Condensed Matter Physics, Technion, Institute of Technology,
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,

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