The Mani L. Bhaumik Institute welcomes visiting scholars throughout the year. The Institute's administrative offices are on the fourth floor of the Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB), which connects to Knudsen Hall.

Where we are

Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB), 4th floor
475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

PAB and Knudsen Hall are connected, just northwest of the intersection of Hilgard Avenue and Westholme Avenue, a short walk from Parking Structure 2.

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Parking

Visitor parking is in Parking Structure 2, at Hilgard and Westholme. Rates as of fall 2026:

Weekdays before 4 p.m. $5–$14 (1–3 hrs) · $18 all day
Weekdays after 4 p.m. $3–$6 (1–2 hrs) · $12 all night
Weekends $3–$6 (1–2 hrs) · $12 all day

Pay before leaving your car, at a pay-by-plate station (credit card, or exact cash in $1/$5/$10 bills) or with the ParkMobile app, zone 2503 ($0.45 fee). Permits expire at 7:59 a.m. the next day; no refunds.

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Recent Visiting Scholars

Fall Quarter 2026

Matthias Neubert

Matthias Neubert

JGU Mainz

October 9thSeminar

Spring Quarter 2026

Prateek Agrawal

Prateek Agrawal

UCSB

April 7th

Rajan Gupta

Rajan Gupta

Los Alamos

April 13th

Michal Heller

Michal Heller

Gent

April 14th

Shi Chen

Shi Chen

Minnesota

April 21st

Winter Quarter 2026

Sergei Gukov

Sergei Gukov

Caltech

January 20thTEP Seminar

Michele Tarquini

Michele Tarquini

Caltech

February 10thTEP Seminar

Mykhaylo Usatyuk

Mykhaylo Usatyuk

KITP

February 17thTEP Seminar

Haoyu Zhang

Haoyu Zhang

USC

February 24thTEP Seminar

Ranveer Singh

Ranveer Singh

Rutgers

February 27thStrings Journal Club

Simeon Hellerman

Simeon Hellerman

Kavli IPMU

March 2ndTEP Seminar

Lance Dixon

Lance Dixon

SLAC

March 3rdTEP Seminar

Luca Delacretaz

Luca Delacretaz

University of Chicago

March 10thTEP Seminar

Jan Boruch

Jan Boruch

UC Berkeley

March 13thStrings Journal Club

Justin Kulp

Justin Kulp

SCGP Stony Brook

March 17thTEP Seminar

Gabriel Cuomo

Gabriel Cuomo

SISSA

March 20thStrings Journal Club

Fall Quarter 2025

Jaewon Song

Jaewon Song

KAIST

October 28thTEP Seminar

Fedor Popov

SCGP Stony Brook

November 4thTEP Seminar

Brandon Rayhaun

Brandon Rayhaun

IAS

December 1stTEP Seminar

Sam Gralla

Sam Gralla

University of Arizona

December 2ndTEP Seminar

Spring Quarter 2025

Lorenzo Tancredi

Lorenzo Tancredi

TU Munich

April 3rdAmplitudes Journal Club

Eric Perlmutter

Eric Perlmutter

IPhT, Saclay

April 8thTEP Seminar

Brando Bellazzini

Brando Bellazzini

IPhT, Saclay

April 15thTEP Seminar

Andrea Antinucci

Andrea Antinucci

Oxford

April 22ndTEP Seminar

Ho Tat Lam

Ho Tat Lam

MIT

May 2ndStrings Journal Club

Michele Del Zotto

Michele Del Zotto

Uppsala

May 6thTEP Seminar

Nathan Benjamin

Nathan Benjamin

USC

May 13thTEP Seminar

Winter Quarter 2025

Anna Hasenfratz

Anna Hasenfratz

University of Colorado

January 21stTEP Seminar

Simon Catterall

Simon Catterall

Syracuse University

January 28thTEP Seminar

Thomas Gehrmann

Thomas Gehrmann

University of Zurich

January 30thAmplitudes Journal Club

Daniel Green

Daniel Green

UCSD

February 4thTEP Seminar

Riccardo Gonzo

Riccardo Gonzo

Edinburgh

February 6thAmplitudes Journal Club

Daniel Brennan

Daniel Brennan

UCSD

February 11thTEP Seminar

Francesco Riva

Francesco Riva

Geneva

February 13thAmplitudes Journal Club

Kristan Jensen

Kristan Jensen

University of Victoria

February 18thTEP Seminar

Donal O'Connell

Donal O'Connell

Edinburgh

February 20thAmplitudes Journal Club

Joan Elias Miro

Joan Elias Miro

ICTP

February 25thTEP Seminar

Chia-Hsien Shen

Chia-Hsien Shen

NTU

February 27thAmplitudes Journal Club

Guilherme Leite Pimentel

Guilherme Leite Pimentel

SNS Pisa

March 4thTEP Seminar

Samuel Abreu

Samuel Abreu

CERN + Edinburgh

March 6thAmplitudes Journal Club

Luca Iliesiu

Luca Iliesiu

UC Berkeley

March 7thStrings Journal Club

David Kosower

David Kosower

IPhT

March 11thTEP Seminar

Laurent Lellouch

Laurent Lellouch

CNRS & Aix-Marseille

March 13thAmplitudes Journal Club

Evgenii Ievlev

Evgenii Ievlev

Minnesota

March 18thTEP Seminar

Gavin Salam

Gavin Salam

Oxford

March 21stStrings Journal Club

Fall Quarter 2024

Alessio Miscioscia

Alessio Miscioscia

DESY

September 20th-October 2ndTEP Seminar

Alexandre Homrich

Alexandre Homrich

KITP

October 15thTEP Seminar

Nicolas Pavao

Nicolas Pavao

UCLA

October 22ndTEP Seminar

Miguel Correia

Miguel Correia

McGill

October 29thTEP Seminar

Shreya Vardhan

Shreya Vardhan

Stanford

November 5thTEP Seminar

Sean Colin-Ellerin

Sean Colin-Ellerin

UC Berkeley

November 12thTEP Seminar

Conghuan Luo

USC

December 3rdTEP Seminar

Earlier visitors (2018–2019)

November 2019

  • November 5th: Ahmed Almheiri, IAS

October 2019

  • October 1st-2nd: Enrico Herrmann, SLAC
  • October 8th: Aneesh Manohar, UCSD
  • October 14th-18th: Emanuel Malek, Max Planck Institute
  • October 11th-25th: Zohar Komargodski, SCGP
  • October 27th-29th: Mario Martone, UT Austin

July 2019

  • July 16th-26th: Sam Gralla, University of Arizona

June 2019

  • June 4th-6th: Guilherme Pimentel, University of Amsterdam

May 2019

  • May 2nd-11th: David Kosower, Saclay

April 2019

  • April 1st-2nd: Rachel Rosen, Columbia University
  • April 4th-5th: Mikhail Solon, Caltech
  • April 8th-9th: Simon Knapen (Institute for Advanced Study)
  • April 30th: Walter Goldberger, Yale

January 2019

  • January 28th-31st: Ibrahima Bah, Johns Hopkins
  • January 23rd-March 23rd: Massimo Porrati, New York University

December 2018

  • 1st week of December: Thomas Blum, UCONN; Lance Dixon, SLAC; William Marciano, Brookhaven (Organizers for SchwingerFest2018: g-2)
  • December 11: Matt Reece, Harvard, TEP Seminar speaker

November 2018

  • November 6th: Markus Luty, UC Davis, TEP Seminar speaker
  • November 13: Daniel Brennan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, TEP Seminar speaker
  • November 20: Alejandra Castro, University of Amsterdam, TEP Seminar speaker
  • November 27th: Silviu Pufu, Princeton, TEP Seminar speaker (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)

October 2018

  • October 2nd: Mark Trodden, UPenn, TEP Seminar speaker (hosted by Chia-Hsien Shen)
  • October 9th: Tom Hartman, Cornell University, TEP Seminar speaker (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)
  • October 16th-17th: Anna Ijjas, Harvard, TEP Seminar speaker (hosted by Zvi Bern)
  • October 23rd: Clay Cordova, Princeton, TEP Seminar speaker (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)
  • October 30th: Alex Belin, University of Amsterdam, TEP Seminar speaker (hosted by Per Kraus)

September 2018

  • September 9th-12th: Achilleas Passias, Uppsala (hosted by Michael Gutperle)

August 2018

  • July 30th-August 3rd: Enrico Herrmann, SLAC (hosted by Zvi Bern)
  • August 13th-14th: Emily Nardoni, UCSD (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)
  • August 31st: Ken Intriligator, UCSD (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)

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