Monday, September 8
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Nonlinear and active nanoplasmonics: fundamental studies and new applications Stefan Maier, Professor, Imperial College London,

Tuesday, September 9
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies: An Interstellar Conversation Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, September 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar Cahill 370 The Star Formation Main Sequence in the Illustris Simulation Martin Sparre, PhD student, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,

Thursday, September 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Simple Picture of Universal Geometric Response of Fractional Quantum Hall Gil Young Cho, University of Illinois - Urbana,

Friday, September 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Magic Pyramid of Supergravities Leo Hughes, Imperial College,

Tuesday, September 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Stellar Graveyard of the Milky Way Dr. Jason Kalirai, STScI,

Friday, September 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar A structured form of the Hadamard matrix conjecture Illias Kotsireas, Dr., Physics and Computer Science, Wilfred Laurier University,

Monday, September 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Piers Coleman, Rutgers University,

Tuesday, September 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Zooming in on Planets and Disks in the Solar Neighborhood Dr. T. J. Rodigas, DTM, Carnegie Institution,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Physically-motivated force fields from symmetry-adapted perturbation theory Jordan R. "JR" Schmidt, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Wednesday, October 1
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Photonic crystal cavities for nonlinear optics Sonia Buckley, Stanford University,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Interplay between CO and [C II], and the suppression of SF in Compact Group galaxies: a Herschel and CARMA view Katherine Alatalo, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Evryscope: the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope Nicholas Law, Univ of North Carolina,

Thursday, October 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Quantum networks with spins in diamond: From remote entanglement to unconditional quantum teleportation Hannes Bernien, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft, Netherlands,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar On the complexity of full groups François Le Maître, Post Doc, Mathematics, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Correlations, Fluctuations, and Disorder at Chromium's Quantum Phase Transition Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, October 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Perturbative and nonperturbative worldsheet string theory in AdS^n x S_n x M^{10-2n} Radu Roiban, Penn State,
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Partition functions, topology, and hydrodynamics with QFT anomalies Piotr Sulkowski, Univ of Warsaw,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Combinatorial constructions of Heegaard Floer homology using bordered invariants. Bohua Zhan, Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Reflectionless measures for singular integral operators. Abstract: A reflectionless measure for an $s$-dimensional singular integral operator $T$ acting in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (with $s\in (0,d)$) is, roughly speaking, a measure $\mu$ for which $T(\mu)$ is cons Benjamin Jaye, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences, Kent State,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy John Harter, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Hsieh Group, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar The kitchen sink: asymptotic analysis of random matrix models, partition function expansions, singular limits of integrable PDEs, and maybe some rudimentary approximation theory Ken MacLaughlin, Professor, Mathematics, University of Arizona,

Sunday, October 5
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Okularfest Beckman Mall
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Okularfest Beckman Auditorium

Monday, October 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark matter searches at ATLAS Ning Zhou, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Sean Hartnoll, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Structure of Instability in Moduli Theory Dan Halpern-Leistner, Ph.D student, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Kasper Schmidt, UCSB,

Wednesday, October 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Monotonicity of relative entropies and convexity of some trace functions Rupert Frank, Professor, Mathematics, Caltech,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) KMTNet: A Cold Exoplanet Census Through a Global Microlensing Survey Calen Henderson, Graduate Student, Oregon State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium How Black Holes Dine above the Eddington "Limit" without Overeating or Excessive Belching Shane Davis, Virginia,

Thursday, October 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Chain conditions and elementary amenable groups Jay Williams, Postdoc, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Irreversibility, information and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale Christopher Jarzynski, Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Weil Sums of Binomials and Helleseth's Conjecture Daniel Katz, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, California State University, Northridge,

Friday, October 10
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM Vladimir Kazakov, Ecole Normale Superieure d'Universite Paris,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator Satoshi Nawata, NIKHEF,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium There's Government in Your Science Josh Shiode, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, American Astronomical Society,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar New results on Hitchin representations Tengren Zhang, Grad Student, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems Noravee Kanchanavatee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Maple Group, Univ of California, San Diego,

Monday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD T. Senthil, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Parametrically Enhanced Transmission of Hidden Photons via Longitudinal Modes Yue Zhao, SLAC,

Tuesday, October 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Algebraic Groups for Everybody! Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems Yi-Chen Huang, IQIM, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Dynamics of super-rotor molecules in an optical centrifuge Amy S. Mullin, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers Yuri Levin, Monash University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Final Products of Stellar Evolution in High Metallicity Envirnonments and the UV Excess in Elliptical Galaxies Prof. Giovanni Carraro, ESO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers Yuri Levin, Monash University,

Wednesday, October 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the Hadamard parametrix construction. Isak Mottelson, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Gaps, Warps, Rings and Collisions: How Planets Interact with Debris Disks Erika Nesvold, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits J. E. Bowers, University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The First Stars and Galaxies in the Universe John Wise, Georgia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Average-case tightness of semidefinite relaxations of maximum likelihood estimation problems Afonso Bandeira, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	David Hsieh - Quantum States of Matter in Crystals Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 16
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Tits buildings, class groups, and the high-dimensional cohomology of SLnOK Tom Church, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Advances on base change, symmetric powers and tensor product functoriality Luis Dieulefait, Professor Agregat, Departament d'Àlgebra i Geometria, University of Barcelona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Journey to the Center of the Earth David J. Stevenson, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Friday, October 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Ilarion Melnikov, Texas A&M,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Too-big-to-fail in the Local Group: A Challenge for LCDM Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Cosmology, U.C. Irvine,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The moduli space of S1-type zero loci for Z2-harmonic spinors in dimension 3 Ryosuke Takahashi, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Graduate Student, Physics, MIT,

Monday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Speaker TBD ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Stellar particle physics Alexander Friedland, LANL,

Tuesday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Extreme Outflows and the Gas Around Galaxies Dr. Aleks Diamond-Stanic, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison,

Wednesday, October 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Ginzburg-Landau equations with self-generated magnetic field Christian Hainzl, Dr., Mathematics, University of Tuebingen,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) TBD Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi, Visiting Graduate Student Fellow,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 PandaX: A dark matter experiment at China JinPing Underground Lab Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland/Shanghai Jian Tong University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Preludes to a Theory and Phenomenology of Galactic Winds Todd Thompson, Ohio State,

Thursday, October 23
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Variations on the finite Gowers' Theorem and the Lelek fan Dana Bartosova, Mathematics, University of San Paolo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring sp2-bonded materials: From graphene liquid cells to atomic collapse Alex Zettl, Professor of Physics, Physics, UC Berkeley,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Science and the University-Government Partnership Beckman Auditorium

Friday, October 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota,
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs Masayuki Okano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models Arkady Vainshtein, University of Minnesota,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual time - 1:00p Cahill 370 Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts Camille Avestruz, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Yale University,
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Inauguration of Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum Beckman Mall
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	All-Campus Reception Olive Walk
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Attosecond Electron Control Mohammed Tharwat Hassan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Zewail group, Caltech,

Monday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Topology of the tropical moduli spaces M_{1,n} and M_{2,n} Melody Chan, NSF Postdoc Fellow , Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Shining light on new physics with improved dijet resonance identification Eder Izaguirre, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Karen Michaeli, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Tuesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Entropy of Dynamical Systems Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Nash Codes for Noisy Channels Bernhard von Stengel, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Early Star Forming Galaxies and Cosmic Rionization Prof. Dan Stark, Univ. of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Optical Communication and Quantum Optics Matt Shaw, JPL,

Wednesday, October 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Global Existence and Dispersion for the Klein-Gordon equation with long range nonhomogeneous nonlinearites Avy Soffer, Professor, Mathematics, Rutgers University,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Enabling the Search for Microbial Life in Other Worlds' Oceans with Digital Holographic Microscopy Jonas Kuhn, JPL,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Introduction to the Ricci and Kahler-Ricci Flows Zhou Zhang, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planet Formation through Radio Eyes Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Marcenko-Pastur Law for Tyler's and Maronna's M-estimators Teng Zhang, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University,

Thursday, October 30
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence, II Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Math, Physics and Duality Mina Aganagic, Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Ext analogues of branching laws Dipendra Prasad, Senior Professor, Mathematics, Tata Institute,

Friday, October 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Triality and AGT Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar A constructive approach to homological mirror symmetry Siu-Cheong Lau, Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Mathematics, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Impact of inhomogeneous blazar heating on the intergalactic medium Astrid Lamberts, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and symmetric domains Stergios Antonakoudis, Dr., Pure Mathematics & Mthematical Statistics , Univ of Cambridge,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Torsten Karzig, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory, Caltech,

Monday, November 3
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	The Keck Institute for Space Studies presents a short course on: Star Formation (from top to bottom) Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Speaker TBD ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Project 8: Towards a Radio-Frequency Measurement of the Neutrino Mass Luiz de Viveiros, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Group compactifications and moduli problems Pablo Solis, OLGA TAUSSKY-JOHN TODD INSTRUCTOR, Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium gLISA: geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Massimo Tinto, JPL/Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Alycia Weinberger, DTM, Carnegie Institution,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Beyond Equilibria (1st of 2 parts. Cont. on Nov. 11.) Georgios Piliouras, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The mystery of water and its condensed phases James L. Skinner, Joseph O. and Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Wednesday, November 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Mean field dynamics of mixed fermionic states Benjamin Schlein, Mathematics, University of Zufich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Sudakov Safety Jesse Thaler, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planetary Systems in 4D Bekki Dawson, Berkeley,

Thursday, November 6
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual day Cahill 370 Large-scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method Cora Uhlemann, PhD student, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Beyond invariance: A notion of cost for quasi-invariant measures Manuel Inselmann, University of Münster,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Local character expansions, hyperelliptic curves, and endoscopy Cheng-Chiang Tsai, Grad Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Case for Jet Substructure Jesse Thaler, Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, MIT,

Friday, November 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum supergravity and exact holography Joao Gomes, University of Cambridge,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Limits of high power fiber lasers, slab fiber waveguides and fabrication and test of microstructures optical fibers Jay Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Four topics on the centers of galaxies Scott Tremaine, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Cubic Differentials and Limits of Convex RP2 Structures under Neck Pinches John Loftin, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Anna Mazzucato, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Penn State,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Novel Mechanism of Low-Temperature CVD Graphene Growth David Boyd, Staff Scientist, Yeh Group, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Mihai Putinar, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

Monday, November 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 GeV Gamma-Rays from the Central Milky Way and the Case for Annihilating Dark Matter Tracy Slatyer, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Stability of line bundles on reducible varieties Atoshi Chordhury, RTG Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins,

Tuesday, November 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar On Ratner's Closed Orbit Theorem Lei Fu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Beyond Equilibria (2nd of 2 parts) Georgios Piliouras, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Resonances in general relativity Semyon Dyatlov, Clay Research Fellow, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Convexity and Subconvexity bounds for automorphic periods and representation theory Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Flying into the Unknown: Air Traffic Management in the Presence of Uncertainty Hamsa Balakrishnan, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing the Origin of Supermassive Black Holes with Dwarf Galaxies Amy Reines, Univ of Michigan,

Thursday, November 13
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar The Langlands-Shahidi method over function fields for the classical groups and the Ramanujan conjecture. Luis Lomeli, Dr., MSRI,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence, III Peter Burton, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Taussky-Todd Lecture Series II: Convexity and subconvexity bounds for automorphic periods Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Nathan Smith, Univ. of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum dot micromaser driven by single electron tunneling Jason Petta, Associate Professor of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, November 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Jonathan Maltz, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption as Probes of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function Nicholas Stone, Postdoctoral Researcher, Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Non-uniquely ergodic laminations and limit sets of geodesics in the Thurston compactification of Teichmüller space Babak Modami, Visiting Scholar, Mathematics, UIUC,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Electron tunneling in Van der Waals heterostructures Chandni U. , IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Eisenstein Group, Caltech,

Monday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Probing physics behind neutrino masses Kaladi Babu, Oklahoma State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Moduli spaces of principal bundles and compactifications of character varieties Christopher Manon, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Phuan Ong, Princeton University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Combinatorial tangle Floer homology Ina Petkova, G. C. Evans Intructor, Mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, November 18
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Information Causality, Szemeredi-Trotter, and algebraic variants of CHSH Mohammad Bavarian, MIT,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar A new approach to amenability and Ramsey theory Andy Zucker, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Matter and the Theory for Baryon Number at the LHC Pavel Fileviez Perez, MPIK, Heidelberg & Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Brian Metzger, Columbia Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch: The statistical thermodynamics of self-replication and evolution Jeremy L. England, Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, November 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Asymptotics of Chebyshev Polynomials for General Subsets of the Real Line Barry Simon, I.B.M. Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium MASSIVE Galaxies and Small Supermassive Black Holes Jenny Greene, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Approximate Separability of Green's Function for Helmholtz Equation in the High Frequency Limit Professor Hongkai Zhao, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Woodward Fischer - Photosynthesis: A Planetary Revolution Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Astrophysical Shocks, Dust and Molecular Clouds Dr. Sibylle Anderl, Univ. of Grenoble,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Machine Learning Seth Lloyd, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT,

Friday, November 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Babak Haghighat, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Extremes of compact object birth, from the dimmest to the super-luminous Brian Metzger, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics , Columbia University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Geometry of arc, curve and sphere graphs (and what it is good for) Sebastian Hansel, Dickson Instructor, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-Abelian phases in Fractional Quantum Hall states Roger Mong, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

Monday, November 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Speaker TBD ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 Flavor-Covariant Formalism for Transport Phenomena Bhupal Dev, University of Manchester, UK,

Tuesday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 1) Siddharth Barman, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Freeze-in Dark Matter James Unwin, University of Notre Dame,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Comparisons of Simulated and Observed Galaxies Prof. Joel Primack, UC Santa Cruz,

Wednesday, November 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Periodic block Jacobi matrices and the XY spin chain Milivoje Lukic, Postdoctoral Fellow UTM, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Monday, December 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Higgs bundles, spectral data, and applications Laura Schaposnik, J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Urbana Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Michael Hermele, University of Colorado - Boulder,

Tuesday, December 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Cyclic Pursuit on Manifolds Dmitri Gekhtman, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The geometry of the Hitchin component Richard Canary, Professor, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Paul W. Merrill: The Man Who Discovered the Evolving Universe Jacob Berkowitz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)

Wednesday, December 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System Konstantin Batygin, Caltech (GPS),

Thursday, December 4
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar The greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow from the Boolean algebra point of view Dana Bartosova, Professor, Mathematics, University of San Paulo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Gravity and Entanglement Mark Van Raamsdonk, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia,

Friday, December 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks Masahito Yamazaki, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen Elizabeth Lovegrove, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups Mark Hagen, RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Decouplings and applications Ciprian Demeter, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Indiana University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow Shauna Kravec, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, San Diego,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse) David Levermore, Professor, Mathematics, University of Maryland,

Monday, December 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Downs 107 Searches for long-lived particles Abi Soffer, SLAC,

Tuesday, December 9
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Taussky-Todd Lecture Stacks in Representation Theory (What is a continuous representation of an algebraic group?) Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Prospects for gravitational-wave background detection with Advanced LIGO/Virgo Eric Thrane, Monash University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk, Univ. of Toronto,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Nima Arkani-Hamed: Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime in the 21st Century Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, December 10
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Biard Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Future of Particle Colliders Nima Arkani-Hamed, Biard Visiting Lecturer, IAS,

Thursday, December 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar The eigencurve at classical weight one points Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Mathematics, University Lille 1,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Paul Dirac - the theorist's theorist Graham Farmelo, Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston ,

Friday, December 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Some outstanding problems in the evolution of supernova progenitors Samuel Jones, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Polyhedra inscribed in quadrics, AdS and HP geometries Sara Maloni, Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Combinatorial methods on actions on character varieties Sara Maloni, Mathemtics, Brown University,

Tuesday, December 16
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Taussky-Todd Lecture Taussky-Todd Lecture Series IV: Periods and global invariants of automorphic representations Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Many-body effects in quasi-2D transition metal dichalcogenides Timothy C. Berkelbach, Ph.D., Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Particle physics solutions to cosmological lithium problem Maxim Pospelov, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Probing the Dark Matter Halo of the Milky Way Prof. Nitya Kallivayalil, Univ. of Virginia,

Wednesday, December 17
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Andrei Faraon - Controlling Light on a Chip at the Single-Photon Level Beckman Auditorium

Friday, December 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Jim Halverson, KITP, UCSB,