Thursday, January 2
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Spin Transport and Majorana Fermions: Exploiting Spin-Orbit Coupling in Semiconductor Nanowires and Topological Insulators Vlad Pribiag, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology,

Monday, January 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Jets without Jets Jesse Thaler, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Observation of Floquet-Bloch States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator Nuh Gedik, Professor, MIT,

Tuesday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Is the simplest chemical reaction really so simple? Richard N. Zare, Marguerite Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The evolution of obscured accretion probed by deep and hard X-ray surveys Andrea Comastri, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna,

Thursday, January 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity Robert Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University,

Friday, January 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Geometry of Supersymmetric Partition Functions Thomas Dumitrescu, Princeton,

Monday, January 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Geometry and Physics seminar Lauritsen 469 Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4 Clifford Taubes, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Imaging Current in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators Katja Nowack, Postdoc, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nucleosynthesis, Neff, and Neutrino Mass Implications from Dark Radiation Evan Grohs, UC San Diego,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Tracking Influence in Dynamic Social Networks Rebecca Willett, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Tracing the growth history of the active black hole population with the black hole mass function Andreas Schulze, Kavli IPMU,

Tuesday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploiting Energetic and Spatial Structure in Quantum Chemistry: Foundations for a New Paradigm Eric Neuscamman, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Close Major-Merger Pairs Since z = 1: Evolution of Merger Rate & sSfr Enhancement Dr. Kevin Xu, IPAC, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reverse engineering galaxies Simon Lilly, ETH, Zurith,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Exploring Mission Concepts with the JPL Innovation Foundry A-Team Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) John Ziemer, Concept Innovation Methods Chief, Innovation Foundry, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Jean E. Ensminger - Aiding and Abetting a Culture of Corruption Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Probing Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure Cora Dvorkin, Postdoctoral Member, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Photonic generation of ultrastable microwave signals Scott Diddams, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),

Friday, January 17
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Characterizing Anisotropy in the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing Arrays Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Graduate Student, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham,

Tuesday, January 21
2:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4 Clifford Taubes, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Excitons in Organic Semiconductors: Elucidating the Mechanism of Singlet Fission Timothy C. Berkelbach, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Measuring the neutron-star equation of state with gravitational waves from binary inspiral John Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Symmetry Protected Topological Phases: Prediction, Construction, and Classification Xie Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, January 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Extra-solar planetary system formation and evolution in the golden age of high contrast imaging Dimitri Mawet, ESO,

Thursday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Reconstructing regulatory circuits: lessons from immune cells Aviv Regev, Associate Professor, HHMI and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases Martin Zwierlein, Silverman Family Career Development Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, January 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Broken Symmetry Julian Sonner, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Binary inspiral with extreme mass ratios John Friedman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellog Seminar Lauritsen Library Status of the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly Gerry Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Monday, January 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Manipulating microwave photons in complex circuits David Schuster, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large-Scale Structures Leonardo Senatore, Stanford,

Tuesday, January 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint IQI/CMP Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Information, Entanglement, and Many-Body Physics Fernando Brandao, Lecturer, University College London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantum Effects and Coherent Dynamics in Biological and Biomimetic Systems Gregory S. Engel, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Tony Pieo, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Live Fast Die Young: The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death Selma de Mink, CIT/Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Topology, symmetry, and edge states in graphene heterostructures Andrea Young, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ali Hajimiri - 1+1=3 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Holistic Circuits Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum thermalization and many-body Anderson localization David Huse, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, January 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 UV Surprises in supergravity Zvi Bern, UCLA,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 312 Questioning Λ: where can we go? Miguel Zumalacárregui, Research Associate, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Annenberg 213 Extracting hidden structure from data: Robust Subspace Clustering and Phase Retrieval Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,