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.
Get directions →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.
UCLA visitor parking →Recent Visiting Scholars
Fall Quarter 2026
Matthias Neubert
JGU Mainz
Spring Quarter 2026
Prateek Agrawal
UCSB
Rajan Gupta
Los Alamos
Michal Heller
Gent
Shi Chen
Minnesota
Winter Quarter 2026
Sergei Gukov
Caltech
Michele Tarquini
Caltech
Mykhaylo Usatyuk
KITP
Haoyu Zhang
USC
Ranveer Singh
Rutgers
Simeon Hellerman
Kavli IPMU
Lance Dixon
SLAC
Luca Delacretaz
University of Chicago
Jan Boruch
UC Berkeley
Justin Kulp
SCGP Stony Brook
Gabriel Cuomo
SISSA
Fall Quarter 2025
Jaewon Song
KAIST
Fedor Popov
SCGP Stony Brook
Brandon Rayhaun
IAS
Sam Gralla
University of Arizona
Spring Quarter 2025
Lorenzo Tancredi
TU Munich
Eric Perlmutter
IPhT, Saclay
Brando Bellazzini
IPhT, Saclay
Andrea Antinucci
Oxford
Ho Tat Lam
MIT
Michele Del Zotto
Uppsala
Nathan Benjamin
USC
Winter Quarter 2025
Anna Hasenfratz
University of Colorado
Simon Catterall
Syracuse University
Thomas Gehrmann
University of Zurich
Daniel Green
UCSD
Riccardo Gonzo
Edinburgh
Daniel Brennan
UCSD
Francesco Riva
Geneva
Kristan Jensen
University of Victoria
Donal O'Connell
Edinburgh
Joan Elias Miro
ICTP
Chia-Hsien Shen
NTU
Guilherme Leite Pimentel
SNS Pisa
Samuel Abreu
CERN + Edinburgh
Luca Iliesiu
UC Berkeley
David Kosower
IPhT
Laurent Lellouch
CNRS & Aix-Marseille
Evgenii Ievlev
Minnesota
Gavin Salam
Oxford
Fall Quarter 2024
Alessio Miscioscia
DESY
Alexandre Homrich
KITP
Nicolas Pavao
UCLA
Miguel Correia
McGill
Shreya Vardhan
Stanford
Sean Colin-Ellerin
UC Berkeley
Conghuan Luo
USC
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)
