MONDAY, May 20
High Energy Physics Seminar, 4 pm, 469 Lauritsen
"Sniffing out BSM Physics with Standard Model Standard Candles," David Curtin, SUNY, Stonybrook.
Astronomy Tea Talk, 4 pm, Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill
"TBA," Sebastiano Cantalupo, UC Santa Cruz.
Condensed Matter Physics, 4 pm, 114 E. Bridge
"Effective Field Theories for Topological Insulators via Functional Bosonization," Shinsei Ryu, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne.
Biophysics Lecture, 4 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Time Travel in Experimental Evolution," Richard Lenski, Professor of Microbial Ecology, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University.

TUESDAY, May 21
LIGO Seminar, 1 pm, SCR, 351 W. Bridge
"Gravitational Waves from Phase Transitions," John T. Giblin, Jr (Kenyon College).
IQI Seminar, 3 pm, 107 Annenberg
"Quantum metrology and many-body physics with optical lattice clocks," Michael Martin, JILA, University of Colorado.
High Energy Physics Seminar, 4 pm, 469 Lauritsen
"SNO+," Jeff Hartnell, University of Sussex.
Kliegel Lectures in Planetary Science, 4 pm, 365 S Mudd - Salvatori Room
"Puzzles in Giant Planet Formation," Katherine Kretke Postdoctoral Researcher Southwest Research Institute (SwRI).
Special Seminar in Applied Math, 4 pm, 105 Annenberg
"Multilevel Monte Carlo Method," Mike Giles, Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford.
Chemical Physics Seminar, 4 pm, 147 Noyes
"Elucidating Correlations in Intracellular Dynamics," Aaron R. Dinner, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago.
Caltech Y Event, 7:30 pm, Annenberg Lecture Hall
"When I Die, They'll Send Me Home" – A Human Rights Perspective on Juvenile Justice in California.

WEDNESDAY, May 22
IPAC Seminar, 12:15 pm, MR LCR
"The Galactic Center: not an AGN," Solange Ramirex (NExScl).
Astronomy Colloquium, 4 pm, Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill
"CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization," Ranga-Ram Chary, Caltech.
Earnest C. Watson Lecture, 8 pm, Beckman Auditorium
"Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein's Life," Shu-ou Shan, Caltech.

THURSDAY, May 23
SRL Sack Lunch Seminar, noon, 273 Cahill
"Probing the central engines of active galactic nuclei," Anne Lohfink, University of Maryland.
Symposium on the Emerging Science of Big Data Visualization, 9:30 am - 3 pm, Ramo Auditorium
Note: Caltech registration deadline is May 8th.
Physics Research Conference, 4 pm, 201 E. Bridge
"Frustrated Magnets and Quantum Spin Liquids," Steven White, UC Irvine.

FRIDAY, May 24
High Energy Theory Seminar, 11 am, 469 Lauritsen
"TBA," Gonzalo Torroba, Stanford University.
TAPIR Seminar, 2 pm, 370 Cahill
"Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets," Leslie Rogers, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech.
IQIM Postdoc and Grad Student Seminars, 4:30 pm, 114 E. Bridge
@ 4:30 pm: "Quantum degenerate dipolar gases of dysprosium, in Bose and Fermi flavor," Mingwu Lu, Ben Lev's group, Stanford University.
@ 5:15 pm: "Magnetic flux 1/f noise in SQUIDs and qubits," Steven Anton, John Clarke's group, UC Berkeley.
Special Seminar, 5 pm, Beckman Institute Auditorium
"Science and Human Values, Professor G. V. Venkataraman, Physicist, Retired; Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.