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Welcome to the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. True to the groundbreaking discoveries that have marked theoretical physics at Caltech, the Burke Institute will strengthen Caltech's leading role in humanity's quest to discover fundamental laws of nature and to explain 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
February 4, 2026 11:00 am

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Kinematic algebras and off-shell double copies
Maor Ben Shahar, MIT,
February 4, 2026 4:00 pm

CMS Special Colloquium with Peter Gacs

A reliable Turing machine
Peter Gacs, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, Boston University,
February 6, 2026 11:00 am

High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Unitary Architecture of Renormalization
Sebastian Mizera, Columbia University,

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