Friday, February 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Complementarity vs Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum gravity effects near black hole horizons? Donald Marolf, UC Santa Barbara,

Monday, February 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum states of matter and anti-matter in gravitational and centrifugal potentials Valery Nesvizhevsky, Institut Laue-Langevin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Building a Better Robot: Designing Automated Control Systems for Astronomical Instruments Reed L. Riddle, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 A Fresh Look at Active Sets

Tuesday, February 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Device-independent quantum information Velario Scarani, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Influence of Baryons in Interpreting the Cosmological Model Alyson Brooks, University of Wisconsin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Challenges in searches for binary black holes and black hole-neutron star systems Duncan Brown, Syracuse University,

Wednesday, February 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Quantification of Nonlinearity Norden Huang, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Taiwan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Searches for new physics at CMS in hadronic final states Maurizio Pierini, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly Genevieve Graves, Princeton,

Thursday, February 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals Judea Pearl, Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics, UCLA,

Friday, February 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Warped Conformal Field Theory Stephane Detournay, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Cosmology 2017: Testing Gravity, Dark Energy, and Neutrinos Eric Linder, Co-Director, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar Annenberg 213 TBD Fernando Brandao, ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Monday, February 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Spitzer's Greatest Hits Mike Werner, JPL/Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Computational Protein Interface Design, Cystic Fibrosis, and HIV Bruce Donald, Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry, Departments of Computer Science and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105

Tuesday, February 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Exponential decay of correlations implies area law Fernando Brandao, ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies Charlie Conroy, Prof., UCSC,

Wednesday, February 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing Galaxy Assembly Henry Ferguson, STScI,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Nadia Lapusta: Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics Frans Pretorius, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, February 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 2d TQFT structure of the superconformal indices with outer-automorphism twists Jaewon Song, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarf Binaries Francesca Valsecchi, Graduate Student, Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University,

Tuesday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Dusty Universe Unveiled by the Herschel Space Observatory Asantha Cooray, Prof., UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill 370 Development of ultra-low loss acoustic resonator from Superfluid Helium-4 Keith Schwab, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmological Parameters from the Complete ACT Survey Renee Hlozek, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Connecting Protein Dynamics with Catalytic Function from QM/MM Simulations Jiali Gao, L. I. Smith Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

Wednesday, February 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 107 The Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments James Belak, Dr., Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Reionization Era Richard Ellis, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Lecture Beckman Auditorium Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers Jim Bell, Arizona State University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) This Talk is Cancelled, To Be Rescheduled at a Later Date John Grotzinger, Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, Caltech,

Friday, February 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Metal-insulator transition in holography Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Shining Light on the Properties of Dark Matter: Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models Fabio Governato, Research Professor, Astronomy Department, University of Washington,

Monday, February 25
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME/LOCATION** Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Cluster Trees, Near-Neighbor Graphs, and Continuum Percolation Sanjoy Dasgupta, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT): Latest Developments and Next Steps Gary Sanders, TMT/Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators Ribhu Kaul, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Kentucky,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Probing bacterial cell shape determination by watching the dynamics of synthetic enzymes Ethan Garner, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fundamental Physics with Optically Levitated Objects Asimina Arvanitaki, Stanford University,

Tuesday, February 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electrochemistry vs. Battery System Engineering: Deconstructing the Recent Spate of Battery Failures Rob Ferber, Founder, ElectronVault, Inc., Linda Maepa, Founder, ElectronVault, Inc.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Alan Dressler, Dr., Carnegie Observatories,

Wednesday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Bridged Gap: Transients in the Local Universe Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar Annenberg 105 Learning and Optimization Karthik Sridharan, Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,

Thursday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,