The UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy is located in the Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB) and Knudsen Hall. The administrative offices of the Mani L. Bhaumik Institute are located on the fourth floor of the Physics and Astronomy building.
To view an interactive campus map and complete driving directions, visit the UCLA Campus maps website.
PAB and Knudsen Hall are connected and located northwest of the intersection between Hilgard Avenue and Westholme Avenue. Parking Structure 2 (P2) and the Parking Information Kiosk (i) are both located at this intersection.
All-day parking permits for Parking Structure 2 are available for $12.00 cash at the Information Kiosk ($13.00 after July 1, 2019). All-day and short-term permits are also available for purchase by credit card via Pay-by-Space meters inside Parking Structure 2. Look for the Pay-by-Space entrances located at various intervals around Parking Structure 2.
Recent Visiting Scholars
Spring Quarter 2026
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April 7th: Prateek Agrawal (UCSB) |
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April 13th: Rajan Gupta (Los Alamos) |
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April 14th: Michal Heller (Gent) |
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April 21st: Shi Chen (Minnesota) |
Winter Quarter 2026
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January 20th:Sergei Gukov (Caltech), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 10th: Michele Tarquini (Caltech), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 17th: Mykhaylo Usatyuk (KITP), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 24th: Haoyu Zhang (USC), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 27th: Ranveer Singh (Rutgers), Strings Journal Club Speaker |
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March 2nd: Simeon Hellerman (Kavli IPMU), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 3rd: Lance Dixon (SLAC), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 10th: Luca Delacretaz (University of Chicago), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 13th: Jan Boruch (UC Berkeley), Strings Journal Club Speaker |
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March 17th: Justin Kulp (SCGP Stony Brook), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 20th: Gabriel Cuomo (SISSA), Strings Journal Club Speaker |
Fall Quarter 2025
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October 28th: Jaewon Song (KAIST), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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November 4th: Fedor Popov (SCGP Stony Brook), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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December 1st: Brandon Rayhaun (IAS), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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December 2nd: Sam Gralla (University of Arizona), TEP Seminar Speaker |
Spring Quarter 2025
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April 3rd: Lorenzo Tancredi (TU Munich), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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April 8th: Eric Perlmutter (IPhT, Saclay), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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April 15th: Brando Bellazzini (IPhT, Saclay), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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April 22nd: Andrea Antinucci (Oxford), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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May 2nd: Ho Tat Lam (MIT), Strings Journal Club Speaker |
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May 6th: Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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May 13th: Nathan Benjamin (USC), TEP Seminar Speaker |
Winter Quarter 2025
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January 21st: Anna Hasenfratz (University of Colorado), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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January 28th: Simon Catterall (Syracuse University), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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January 30th: Thomas Gehrmann (University of Zurich), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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February 4th: Daniel Green (UCSD), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 6th: Riccardo Gonzo (Edinburgh), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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February 11th: Daniel Brennan (UCSD), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 13th: Francesco Riva (Geneva), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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February 18th: Kristan Jensen (University of Victoria), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 20th: Donal O'Connell (Edinburgh), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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February 25th: Joan Elias Miro (ICTP), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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February 27th: Chia-Hsien Shen (NTU), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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March 4th: Guilherme Leite Pimentel (SNS Pisa), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 6th: Samuel Abreu (CERN + Edinburgh), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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March 7th: Luca Iliesiu (UC Berkeley), Strings Journal Club Speaker |
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March 11th: David Kosower (IPhT), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 13th: Laurent Lellouch (CNRS & Aix-Marseille), Amplitudes Journal Club Speaker |
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March 18th: Evgenii Ievlev (Minnesota), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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March 21st: Gavin Salam (Oxford), Strings Journal Club Speaker |
Fall Quarter 2024
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September 20th-October 2nd: Alessio Miscioscia (DESY), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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October 15th: Alexandre Homrich (KITP), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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October 22nd: Nicolas Pavao (UCLA), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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October 29th: Miguel Correia (McGil), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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November 5th: Shreya Vardhan (Stanford), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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November 12th: Sean Colin-Ellerin (UC Berkeley), TEP Seminar Speaker |
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December 3rd: Conghuan Luo (USC), TEP Seminar Speaker |
November 2019
November 5th: Ahemed 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, John 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 Herrman, SLAC (hosted by Zvi Bern)
August 13th-14th: Emily Nardoni, UCSD (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)
August 31st: Ken Intriligator, UCSD (hosted by Thomas Dumitrescu)