Tuesday, September 8
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves Rhondale Tso, LIGO, Caltech,

Tuesday, September 15
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Entropy, majorization and thermodynamics in quantum theory and beyond Howard Barnum, University of New Mexico,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium New Insights into Cosmic Reionization Prof. Steven Furlanetto, UCLA,

Wednesday, September 16
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Looking for Life As (We Think) We Know It: Enceladus and Europa - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Jonathan Lunine, Professor in the Physical Sciences and Director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University,

Tuesday, September 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Rychard Bouwens, Leiden,

Thursday, September 24
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Singular values and inter-relations between classical random matrix ensembles Peter Forrester, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne,

Friday, September 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Twisted quantum spectral curve of AdS5/CFT4 Vladimir Kazakov, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et d'Université Paris,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Strongly interacting photons in a synthetic magnetic field Pedram Roushan, Quantum Electronics Engineer, Google Inc., Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, September 29
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Observing Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae in the Advanced Detector Era Sarah Gossan, LIGO/Tapir, Caltech,

Wednesday, September 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Gaussian measures on manifolds of metrics Dmitry Jakobson, Peter Redpath Professor, Professor, McGill University, Montreal,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "But Wait! There's more: A Wealth of Science from Millisecond Pulsars" Scott Ransom, NRAO,

Thursday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector Holger Müller, Assistant Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, October 2
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Pulsar timing limit on gravitational waves necessitates re-think of binary supermassive black hole evolution Vikram Ravi, Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept of Astronomy, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots Ken Baker, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Miami,

Monday, October 5
9:30 am - 3:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course South Mudd 365 Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Calculations in Dirac Gaugino Models: Operators, Expansions, and Effects Jessica Goodman, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, October 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Gapped boundaries, group cohomology and fault-tolerant logical gates Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers and the origin of heavy elements Kenta Hotokezaka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Vibrational Signatures of Electronic Properties in Energy and Biology Ryan P. Steele, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,

Wednesday, October 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the structure of band edges of 2d periodic elliptic operators Ilya Kachkovsky, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Toward mathematical characterization of "topological" phases of matter Alexei Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, October 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Winding Road to Topological Insulators Eugene Mele, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On a Filtration of CH0 for an Abelian Variety A Valia Gazaki, University of Chicago,

Friday, October 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum Hydrodynamics from Large-N Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Peter Koroteev, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites Coral Wheeler, Graduate Student, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Corrin Clarkson, Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Indiana University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR Andrew Mounce, Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Ben Krause, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Bartosz Trojan, Mathematics, University of Wroclaw,

Monday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar K-Stability for Fano Varieties with Torus Action Nathan Ilten, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Simon Fraser University,

Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Recovering elliptic curves from their p-torsion Jacob Tsimmerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Surrogate Models of Numerical Relativity Binary Black Hole Waveforms Jonathan Backman, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Andre-Oort and other problems in Unlikely intersections Jacob Tsimerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Wednesday, October 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Regularity theory for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations Tianling Jin, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation with Kepler Jennifer van Saders, Carnegie,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Paul Weissman - Back to the Beginning: The Rosetta Comet Rendezvous Mission Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 15
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Furstenberg-Poisson boundary 101 Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics, Humanities and Social Science, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars Jim Fuller, Postdoctoral Scholar in the TAPIR Group, Caltech,

Friday, October 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Looking for a Bulk Point David Simmons-Duffin, IAS & Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Tests of strong gravity with compact objects Emanuele Berti, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Algebraic Knots, Upsilon invariant and optimal cobordisms Shida Wang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Indiana University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library New Cryogenic Targets for Nuclear Physics David Kendellen, Postdoctoral Scholar, TUNL, Duke University,

Monday, October 19
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Applied & Computational Mathematics Annenberg 213 A Hybrid Framework with Analysis for Stochastic Wave Propagation Models Mahadevan Ganesh, College of Engineering & Computational Sciences, Colorado School of Mines,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantum Chemical Games of Life Ali Alavi, FRS, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Strange duality of Conformal Blocks Swarnava Mukhopadhyay, Brin Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Distinguishing the new physics via the correlation of the single Higgs and double Higgs production Hao Zhang, UC Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, October 20
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains Stergios Antonakoudis, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electronic Stopping under Proton Irradiation: Understanding Electronic Excitation Dynamics using First-Principles Theory Yosuke Kanai, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Wednesday, October 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Dimension reduction for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates with anisotropic confinement Christof Sparber, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Holographic Entropy Cone Ning Bao, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Future of Astronomy is Super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astronomy Ben Mazin, UCSB,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Analysis of a Classical Matrix Preconditioning Algorithm Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,

Thursday, October 22
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Unexpected distribution phenomenon resulting from Cantor series expansions Dylan Airey, Undergraduate Student, Mathematics, University of Texas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA Matthew Weidner, Undergraduate, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference - TeachWeek Keynote Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Confessions of a Converted Lecturer Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The motivic class of the complement of arrangements associated to finite groups Ivan Marino, SNSF- Post Doc, Mathematics, University of Fribourg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: TeachWeek Keynote by Eric Mazur East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Friday, October 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 On the shape dependence of entanglement entropy Dean Carmi, Tel Aviv University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Evolution of baryons in the high-redshift universe Hamsa Padmanabhan, Research Scholar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar An Introduction to Mumford-Tate groups Emad Nasrollahpoursamami, Grad Student, mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Jianfeng Lin, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale Surjeet Rajendran, UC Berkelely,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar What makes a neural code convex? Nora Youngs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,

Tuesday, October 27
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Crackle, crackle little blade: experimental investigations of mechanical up conversion in Advanced LIGO suspensions Gabriele , Vajente, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological Phases in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems Alexey Gorshkov, NIST/JQI,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Predictive Methods for Catalyst and Materials Optimization Paul M. Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Stability of Causal Inference Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium In Quest of Low Mass Planets in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan, Penn. State Univ.,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Space Entrepreneurship Panel Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Profits in the Final Frontier: Entrepreneurial Pursuits in Space

Wednesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Gang Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain George Djorgovski, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar TBA Zeev Dvir, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics, Princeton,

Thursday, October 29
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Local spectral gap in simple Lie groups Adrian Ioana, Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA M. Hadi Hedayatzadeh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Purdue,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Experiments Big and Small Savas Dimopoulos, The Hamamoto Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University,

Friday, October 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories Aleksey Cherman, Univ of Washington, Seattle,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Wave Excitation by Turbulent Stellar Convection Daniel Lecoanet, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Special HEP Seminar Lauritsen 469 The sPHENIX Detector at RHIC Dr. Craig Woody, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Lab,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Gauge theory on G2-manifolds Thomas Walpushi, C L E Moore Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics Bassam Helou, Graduate Student, Yanbei Chen's Group,

Monday, November 2
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course Beckman Institute Auditorium Fundamentals of Optical Frequency Comb Technology and Applications
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Fast Solvers for the High-Frequency Helmholtz Equation Assistant Professor Leonardo Andrés Zepeda Núñez, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction in HEP complex event topologies Chris Rogan, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar P=W for nodal curves Michael McBreen, C L E Moore Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,

Tuesday, November 3
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Exploring astrophysics with Gravitational Waves Jonah Kanner, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY: LOW-ENERGY CONSEQUENCES & TABLE-TOP TESTS Philip Stamp, Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Mark Swain, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The Chemical Distance in Critical Percolation Phillippe Sosoe, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Single Cell 42-plex Cytokine Analysis: From Normal Immune Defense to Autoimmunity Rong Fan, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering , Yale University,

Wednesday, November 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Subdiffusive concentration in First-Passage Percolation Phillippe Sosoe, Mathematics, Harvard University,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Gapped Fermionic Phases of Matter and Spin Structures Anton Kapustin, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, PMA, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks Sean Andrews, CfZ Harvard,
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Light, Atomic Clocks, and Testing Einstein's Assumptions Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Dr. John L. Hall, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST,

Thursday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute,

Friday, November 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 No Transmission Principle in Holography Netta Engelhart, UCSB,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quiver gauge theories, TQFT and integrable lattice models Junya Yagi, Univ of Warsaw,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 How gas accretion and galactic outflows affect galaxies and their haloes Freeke van de Voort, Joint TAC-ASIAA Fellow, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley / ASIAA,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics Nicole Yunger Halpern, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Learning Seminar Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures (II) Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Peter Feller, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Boston College,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Learning Seminar CM Abelian Varieties over C and their Hodge Structures Brian Hwang, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, November 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Mixing Light and Sound in Nanophotonic Circuits Peter T. Rakich, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LHCb results on tetra- and penta-quark candidates Tomasz Skwarnicki, Syracuse University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Perverse sheaves on arc spaces and local L-factors Alexis Bouthier, Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, November 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Entanglement entropy from thermodynamic entropy in one higher dimension Mohammad Maghrebi, JQI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Recent developments in graph Ramsey theory David Conlon, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of OXford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Low Energy Muon Production For Future Muon experiments Yu Bao, UC Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Fishing for Spectral Lines in the (Lensed) High-z Universe Dr. Adi Zitrin, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Instability and exponential dichotomy of Hamiltonian PDE Chongchun Zeng, Professor, Mathematics, Georgia Tech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Good Quotients of Spectral Triples Branimir Cacic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Texas A & M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The asteroseismic revolution of red giant stars: from stellar interiors to the structure of the Milky Way Dennis Stello, Univ. Sydney,

Thursday, November 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) SPECIAL DIVISION SEMINAR -- See the Sound: In Search of the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Taylor coefficients of L-functions for function fields Zhiwei Yun, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,

Friday, November 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Which quantum field theories have emergent gravity? Shamit Kachru, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 1 of 2 Gil Cohen, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Compact object mergers with spinning neutron stars Will East, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept of Physics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Cohomology of algebraic varieties Xinwen Zhu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots Olga Plameneuskaya, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Stony Brook,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 The quenched-induced geometric Hall response Justin Wilson, Postdoctoral Scholar,

Monday, November 16
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 The Application of Cryogenic Rare Earth Ion Dopants for Quantum Information and Biomedical Imaging Jevon Longdell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Otago, New Zealand,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Logarithmic geometry and some applications Mattia Talpo, Post Doc, Mathematics, UBC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Prospects of direct search for dark photons and dark Higgs in p+A collisions at Fermilab E-1067/SeaQuest experiment Ming Liu, LANL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Definite surfaces and alternating links Josh Greene, Professor, Mathematics, Boston College,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A higher-height lift of Rohlin's Theorem: on \eta^3 Mike Hill, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Detecting topological order in the Heisenberg pictureWe introduce a numerical method for identifying topological order in two-dimensional models based on one-dimensional bulk operators. The idea is to identify approximate symmetries supported on thin str David Poulin, University of Sherbrooke,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Measurement of the Ar(n,p)Cl cross section below 50 MeV Nick Walsh, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Knot homologies and their deformations Paul Wedrich, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Johanna Teske, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism - CIW,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding the chemical processes that affect growth rates of atmospheric nanoparticles James N. Smith, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The GRACE Follow-On Laser Ranging Interferometer Brent Ware, JPL,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	The Space Connection: Navigating the Bridge between JPL and the Caltech Campus Beckman Institute Auditorium

Wednesday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Compact manifolds with integral bounds on the negative part of Ricci curvature and the Kato class Christian Rose, Professor, Mathematics, Technische Universitat Chemnitz & UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Numerically detectable spectrum: why there exists no constructive proof of Wiener's 1/f theorem Nikolai Nikkolski, Professeur Emérite, Mathematics, Bordeaux/ Steklov Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Evolution of the ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies Jin Koda, Stonybrook,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ellen Rothenberg - Choosing the T-Cell Profession: Higher Education for Stem Cells Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar the Geometry Near Infinity of shrinking Ricci Solitons Bennett Chow, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Some degenerate Whittaker functions for Sp_n(R) Stephen Kudia, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Einstein's Equations From Entanglement Brian Swingle, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Friday, November 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 What is Temperature of a Pure State? Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The X-ray through optical fluxes of Tidal Disruption Events Nathan Roth, Graduate Student, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Absolute Hodge Cycles Matthias Flach, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Laura Starkson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator' photonic crystal waveguide Jonathan Hood, Graduate Student, Kimble Group,

Monday, November 23
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 High energy analysis at KamLAND and application to dark matter search Michinari Sakai, University of Hawaii,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The syzygies of some thickenings of determinantal varieties Claudiu Raicu, Instructor, Mathematics, Norte Dame,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation Bharat Ratra, Kansas State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Membrane Geometry and Multi-Scale Dynamics Hamid Noori, University of Heidelberg,

Tuesday, November 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) A new paradigm for binary black-hole spin precession Michael Kesden, Professor, Department of Physics, UTDallas,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Colloidal Structures from Unexpected Interactions: From Dielectric Many-Body Effects to Non-Equilibrium Phase Behavior Erik Luijten, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2 Gil Cohen, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics In a shadow of the Riemann Hypothesis: Approximation Problems on the Hilbert Multidisc Nikolai Nikolski, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Bordeaux,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab SuYin Wang, Femilab,

Wednesday, November 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The LOFAR EoR project: science goals, foregrounds, processing challenges and status Ger de Bruyn, Univ of Groningen,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Carlson-Landau inequalities and magnetic Schrödinger operators Ari Laptev, Professor, Mathematics, Imperial College London and Mittag-Leffler Institute,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Semnar TBA Jed Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, Mathematics, University of Minnesota,

Monday, November 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar TBA Sam Gunningham, Postdoc, Mathematics, UT Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Interpreting Cosmic Ray Signals "Energy-peak" Way Doojin Kim, Univ of Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Semnar Polynomials vanishing on Cartesian products Orit Raz, PhD Student, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The Joint LA Topology Seminar

Tuesday, December 1
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) aLIGO test masses, revisited Hiroaki Yamamoto, Physicist, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum work fluctuations: notions and exact results Sebastian Deffner, Los Alamos,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Automatic continuity notions and locally compact Polish groups Phillip Wesolek, Professor, Mathematics, Université Catholique de Louvain,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Sunlight and water – agents of chemical complexity in the environment Veronica Vaida, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Generalized Low Rank Models (part 1 of 2) Madeleine Udell, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Light-ish Elements in Dwarf Galaxies: The Enigmas of Lithium, Carbon, Magnesium, and More Prof. Evan Kirby, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Near-future prospects for detection and astrophysical inference with pulsar-timing arrays Stephen Taylor, NASA-JPL,

Wednesday, December 2
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar New Developments for Scattering Amplitudes Ulrich Schubert, Max-Planck Institute for Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Some New Thoughts on EW Baryogenesis Tao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Anastasiia Tsvietkova, Krener Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Universe's most extreme star-forming galaxies Caitlin Casey, UT Austin,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Maria Spiropulu - Complex Quantum Cosmos: Science Puzzles and Technology Solutions Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Physics The Donaldson-Thomas theory of K3xE and the Igusa cusp form Jim Bryan, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA Laurent Fargues, Directeur de Recherche CNRS , Mathematics, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Science communication and the making of The PHD Movie 2 Jorge Cham, PHD Comics,

Friday, December 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supersymmetric flavors on curved space and a precision test of AdS/CFT Christopher Uhelmann, Univ of Washington,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Integrated accretion disk angular momentum removal and astrophysical jet acceleration mechanism Paul Bellan, Professor, Applied Physics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Introduction to Tanakian Catagories Jize Yu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Semiconducting-to-metallic Photoconductivity Crossover in Graphene Alex Frenzel, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC San Diego,

Monday, December 7
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course South Mudd 365 Methane on Mars
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special IQI Seminar Annenberg 107 Limitations of monogamy, Tsirelson-type bounds, and other semidefinite programs in quantum information Xiaodi Wu, University of Oregon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Single variable calculus and local geometric Langlands Sam Raskin, CLE Moore Instructor , Mathematics, MIT,

Tuesday, December 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Stacked codes: universal fault-tolerant quantum computation in a two-dimensional layout Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Generalized Low Rank Models (part 2 of 2) Madeleine Udell, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium All Planets Great and Small Dr. Rebekah Dawson, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, December 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On a theorem of Deligne and the Etale slice theorem in positive characteristics Vikraman Balaji, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, CMI, Chennia,

Friday, December 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Perfect Resolutions of SU(2)xSU(3) Model of Elliptic Fibration Monica Kang, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Recent Progress on Multi-D Boltzmann-Neutrino-Hydrodynamics Simulations for Core Collapse in Massive Stars Hiroki Nagakura, Research Assistant Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,

Tuesday, December 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Dusting for Prints of Exoplanetary Systems Dr. Christine Chen, STScI,

Friday, December 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQI Seminar Annenberg 213 Noise tailoring for scalable quantum computation via randomized compiling Joseph Emerson, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, ,

Tuesday, December 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Direct Observation of the Formation, Structures and Dynamics of Individual Nanocrystals Jungwon Park, Dr., School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,