Monday, December 1
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Next Frontiers in the Investigation of Extraterrestrial Organics Chen 100
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Next Frontiers in the Investigation of Extraterrestrial Organics Chen 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Hot and (Un)bothered: Unveiling the Complex Dynamical Histories of Hot Jupiters Brandon Radzom, graduate student; Indiana University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-invertible chiral symmetry and the ABJ anomaly on the lattice Professor Lukasz Fidkowski, Associate Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter - Quantum Information, University of Washington, Seattle,

Tuesday, December 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Polynomial Szemerédi for sets with large Hausdorff dimension on the Torus Guo Dong Hong, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Furkan Ozturk, Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 TBD Sumanth Varambally, PhD Student, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 The inverse mean curvature flow Kai Xu, Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, December 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Brandon Rayhaun, Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Anomalies of Defect Parameter Spaces and a Spin-Flux Duality Brandon Rayhaun, Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Drew Gilpin Faust Athenaeum
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Hyper-u-amenability and hyperfiniteness of treeable equivalence relations Andrea Vaccaro, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Properties of Quasar Host Galaxies: Star Formation Histories and Stellar Populations Maria Stone, INAF, Rome and FINCA, Finland,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Parallel Sampling via Autospeculation Thuy-Duong (June) Vuong, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley/UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Lightning Talks Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lightning Talks for All New Postdocs and Research Staff
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Gaussian Bosonic Dynamics in the Presence of Symmetry: Engineering, Monotones and Conservation Laws Nick Koukoulekidis, Duke University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Special Probability Seminar Linde Hall 387 Infinite-dimensional diffusions from random matrix dynamics Theo Assiotis, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh,

Thursday, December 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Aidan Reilly, Stanford University,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 The phantom tautological ring for the moduli of Shtukas Zhiwei Yun, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Convergent points for random power series on the unit circle Marcus Michelen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Jo Dunkley, Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Asymptotics of the Resistance of the Critical Series-Parallel Graph via Parabolic PDE Theory Peter Morfe, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Localization and support in D(G) Claus Sorensen, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Extremal quantum cohomology and Gamma structure for standard flips Mark Shoemaker, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Exact dimensionality of harmonic measures for random walks on lamplighter groups Peter Kosenko, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,

Friday, December 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFT and Holography Jaewon Song, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology),
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple Yongtao Zhan, Preskill group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Emergent Flat Space from Quantum Entanglement Tianli Wang, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Stellar forensics: tracing the origin of interaction-powered supernovae and Type-Ia supernova remnants Soham Mandal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations Aaron Landesman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The History of the Solar System: Insights from JWST Observations of Asteroids Katherine de Kleer, Professor, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,

Monday, December 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars/Creating Space-Based, All-Sky Surveys to Study the Death and Afterlife of Stars Laura Duffy, graduate student, Penn State University, Hannah Gulick, graduate student, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Math Teaching Seminar Linde Hall 359 Mathematics Teaching Seminar Jedi Tsang, CTLO Program Manager, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality Furkan Ozturk, Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar, Geobiology and Geochemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Yuval Grossman, Cornell University,
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	The Continuing Legacy of Galileo at 30 Chen 100

Tuesday, December 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Flow matching for (generalized) Schrödinger bridges and dynamical optimal transport Stephen Zhang, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Mean-Field Actor-Critic Flow: A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Mean-Field Game Haosheng Zhou, PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics & Applied Probability, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Heat, wave, and Schrödinger dynamics of Gibbs measures Bjoern Bringmann, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

Wednesday, December 10
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Euclid space mission M. Claudia Scarlata, Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA), Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota,

Thursday, December 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Decoding the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries Mudit Garg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics, New York University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture Online and In-Person Event Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors Dan Kasen, Professor of Physics, Physics, UB Berkeley,

Friday, December 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Nishad Maskara, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Metastable helium in the upper thermosphere Shri Kulkarni, Professor, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 289 TBD Alexander Dunn, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 289 Late-time tails for nonlinear waves in four dimensions Shi-Zhuo Looi, Olga Taussky and John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Chaotic properties of smooth systems and related topics Adam Kanigowski, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,