Monday, November 3
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - One Shot to Glory: Designing Adaptive Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond Broad 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles Asher Berlin, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Tides, Tori, and Disintegration: Spectral and Photometric Signatures of Volcanic Exoplanets and Exomoons Apurva V. Oza, Research Scientist, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm	Engineering a Sustainable Future: Science, Innovation, and Human Welfare Beckman Auditorium

Tuesday, November 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special AMO Seminar East Bridge 114 Pseudogap at ultralow temperatures in a Fermi-Hubbard quantum simulator Lev Kendrick, Department of Physics- Lithium Lab, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 A Lie-Algebraic Perspective on Tree-Adjoining Grammars Elizabeth Xiao, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Asymptotics for the Toda Lattice Amol Aggarwal, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs Jinzhao Wang, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Rokhlin's lemma for infinite measure preserving bijections François Le Maître, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Burgundy Institute of Mathematics (IMB),
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Systematic Uncertainties in Transiting Exoplanets and Their Host Stars Alison Duck, JPL,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap Sebastian Harris, DESY,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 r(3,k) in two bites Dylan King, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 An introduction to quantum image encryption Claire Levaillant, Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems from the Outside In Brendan Bowler, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Thursday, November 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special QM Seminar West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room) Controlling material properties at the femtosecond timescale Daniel Lesko, Chair of Laser Physics, Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Quantum Schubert Calculus from lattice models Leonardo Mihalcea, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Demystifying Graviton Detection Igor Pikovski, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs Fanjun Meng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of California - San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Affine Schubert varieties are splinters Robert Cass, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont McKenna College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Scaling limit of the half-space KPZ equation Christian Serio, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Locality of Epidemics on Graphs Yeganeh Alimohammadi, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, USC,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum TBA Christopher Hoffman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

Friday, November 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Entropic Order Fedor Popov, Stony Brook University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks Igor Pikovski, Stevens Institute of Technology,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event The role of triple evolution in shaping Galactic binaries and transients Abinaya Rajamuthukumar, Graduate Student, Astrophysics, MPA-Garching,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Singularities of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces Filippo Gaia, SNSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Building the World's Most Powerful Radio Telescope Gregg Hallinan, Professor of Astronomy; Director of Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Caltech,

Monday, November 10
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm	Math Teaching Seminar Linde Hall 359 Conversations About Math Teaching Tynan Ochse, Curriculum Director, Art of Problem Solving,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 From phason mass to the magneto-chiral instability: THz nonlinear electrodynamics of collective excitations in solids Professor Fahad Mahmood, Assistant Professor, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Cosmology of dark forces: strong limits and 𝜈 effects Erwin Tanin, Stanford University,

Tuesday, November 11
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Automated Conjecturing and Discovery in Mathematics Randy Davila, Lecturer, Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Formation and dissociation of hydrocarbons under interstellar conditions Jordy Bouwman, Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Where can free waves concentrate? Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Berkeley,

Wednesday, November 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event A Black Hole Airy Tail Pratik Rath, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Minimal Subdynamics: Descriptive ideas about Dynamical Questions Josh Frisch, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - San Diego,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Potential Target Stars and Planetary Systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Caleb Harada, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Fold-transversal surface code cultivation Kaavya Sahay, Yale,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres and protostellar mass flows with JWST Tom Greene, Research Professor of Astronomy; Executive Director IPAC, Caltech,

Thursday, November 13
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Matrix points on varieties Yifan Wei, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UW-Madison,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Annenberg 213 An area law for metastable states Chi Fang (Anthony) Chen, Simons Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Hodge-theoretic open/closed correspondence and integral structures Song Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Yan Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Local and global biases of modular forms Kimball Martin, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Osaka Metropolitan University and University of Oklahoma,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event The quest to improve Gravitational wave detection, parameter inference algorithms, and multi-messenger astrophysics Barak Zackay, Professor, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Friday, November 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Algebras and Emergence of Time: global physics from a local state Nima Lashkari, Purdue University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Error Correction in Nearly Critical Toric Codes Zack Weinstein, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Alicea Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources Zeyuan Xuan, Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy Department, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Beck-Fiala and Komlós Bounds Beyond Banaszczyk Haotian Jiang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago,

Saturday, November 15
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	David Baltimore Memorial Beckman Auditorium

Sunday, November 16
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm	City of Astronomy Science Festival

Monday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation Santiago Agüí-Salcedo, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Rains & Quakes in 3D Massive Stars: First Light of the AREPO-Star Project Jing-ze Ma, PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,

Tuesday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Can quantum invariants read the geometry of a knot? Lara San Martinez Suarez, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 From Optimal Transport to Collective Intelligence: Lifelong and Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Task Embeddings Eva Liu, Ph.D. student, Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies, Vanderbilt University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Yang-Mills, probability, and stochastic PDE Sky Cao, NSF postdoctoral fellow and C.L.E. Moore Instructor, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Plasma Physics" and "Building a Star" Eva Kostadinova, Professor, Department of Physics, Auburn University, Oak Nelson, Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,

Wednesday, November 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs Yoav Zigdon, Tel Aviv University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event The Radon–Nikodym topography of measure-class-preserving equivalence relations Anush Tserunyan, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics Department, McGill University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) New Views on Extreme Starbursts: Clumps in Local ULIRGs with JWST Laura Lenkić, Caltech/IPAC,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Rotationally symmetric plabic graphs and the Lagrangian Grassmannian Olha Shevchenko, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New Views of Gas, Stellar Feedback, and the Interstellar Medium Adam Leroy, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Thirteen Years in the Dust: How a Robot Showed that Mars Was Once Habitable, with Ashwin Vasavada Beckman Auditorium Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,

Thursday, November 20
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Annenberg 213 Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement Ethan Lake, UC Berkeley,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Quantum Invariants and Fiberedness Lara San Martin Suarez, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Rings of scalar-valued automorphic forms on certain Deligne–Mostow Shimura varieties Yuxin Lin, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Universality in the Collective Behavior of Open Quantum Systems Ana Asenjo Garcia, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar The homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in affine space Jaspreet Singh, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Our Sun" and "Nuclear Fusion on Earth" David Schaffner, Professor, Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College, Mario Manuel, Research Scientist, General Atomics,

Friday, November 21
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Astronomy Special Seminar Cahill 370 Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Universe with NASA's Aspera Mission and Advancing UV Detector Technologies Aafaque R. Khan, PhD. Candidate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Maximizing the Interaction Strength Miguel Correia, McGill University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory Ting-Chun (David) Lin, University of California San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Star formation and evolution in AGN disks - general applications of planet formation across cosmic scales Yixian Chen, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Non-collapsing of Ricci shrinkers with bounded curvature Conghan Dong, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,

Monday, November 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Spectrum completeness from dispersion relations Michele Tarquini, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Cosmic Detectives: Discovering High-Redshift Quasars and Solving the Mystery of Their Gas Halos Tatevik Mkrtchyan, graduate student; Universidad Diego Portales, Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos,
4:00 pm - 4:55 pm	Math Teaching Seminar Linde Hall 359 Conversations About Teaching Jaeden Bardati, PhD Student, Department of Physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. DePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Linde Hall 310 What is your number? Logic puzzles for mathematicians Joel David Hamkins, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Logic, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online Event Bhargava's geometry-of-numbers beyond Davenport's lemma Artane Siad, Assistant Professor, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,