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 - 1:00 pm	Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Drew Gilpin Faust Athenaeum
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,
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	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,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Lightning Talks Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lightning Talks for All New Postdocs and Research Staff
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 Astrophysical Signals of Asymmetric Dark Matter 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	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,
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	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	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,
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
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 387 Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions. Bjoern Bringmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
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 The Return of the Kaon Yuval Grossman, Cornell University,
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	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars Laura Duffy, graduate student, Penn State 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 Fast and scalable quantum simulation of fermionic systems 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 Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions 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,

Monday, December 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talks Cahill 370 Creating Space-Based, All-Sky Surveys to Study the Death and Afterlife of Stars Hannah Gulick, graduate student, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, December 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Advancing Quantum Research and Education through the LPS Qubit Collaboratory Kasra Sardashti, Assistant Professor of Physics, Executive Director, Quantum Collaborative Research Corp (QCoR), University of Maryland,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) The Early Universe in Our Backyard: Dust, Ices, Outflows and Protostellar Accretion in the Low-Metallicity Star-Forming Region NGC 346 Nolan Habel, JPL,