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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
September 25, 2026 2:00 pm

Special TAPIR Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Ringdown from Eccentric Binary Black Hole Coalescences in the Extreme Mass Ratio Regime
Devin Becker, Graduate Student, Kavli Institute, MIT,
September 28, 2026 4:00 pm

Quantum Matter Seminar

Relax, it's stable! Superconductivity and kinetics of electron-phonon systems at strong coupling
Noga Bashan, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute,
September 30, 2026 12:00 pm

IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

Observation of pairing in a Pfaffian quantum Hall state of ultracold bosons
Perrin Segura, Harvard,

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