Tuesday, September 6
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Electromagnetic Follow-up Pipeline Using Shapelet Analysis for Automatic Transient Detection Kendall Ackley, Physics, University of Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium On the Dynamics of Planets, Stars and Black Holes - New Insights from Triples Prof. Smadar Naoz, UCLA,

Friday, September 9
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall The Invisible Universe Revealed: From Glowing Dust to Spinning Stellar Corpses Anna Ho, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Monday, September 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Darkly-Charged Dark Matter Lisa Randall, Harvard University,

Tuesday, September 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium GMT Science Performance, Integrted Modeling, and Analysis Dr. Rebecca Bernstein, Giant Magellan Telescope Organization,

Friday, September 16
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept? Professor Mark Girolami, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick,

Tuesday, September 20
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Maximizing the sensitivity of LIGO and the electromagnetic followup of its events Michael Coughlin, Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Courtney Dressing, Caltech,

Friday, September 23
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Revealing the nature of dark matter with Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies Mei-Yu Wang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Texas A&M University,

Tuesday, September 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Laura Sales, UC Riverside,

Wednesday, September 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Asymptotic stability in the variable-speed $\phi^4$ model Stanley Snelson, L. E. Dickson Instructor, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Heavy Element Enrichment in Early Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Environmnents Robert Simcoe, MIT-Kavli,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Star Men Screening - Bringing the Universe Down to Earth Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, September 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room) A quantum gas of polar KRb molecules in an optical lattice Jacob Covey, Graduate Student, Jun Ye's Group, JILA/ University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The LISA Pathfinder mission: first results and implications for an orbiting gravitational wave observatory William Joseph Weber, Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Trento, and TIFPA/INFN, Italy,

Friday, September 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Studying IR Dynamics with Conformal Truncation Matthew Walters, Boston University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Unraveling the history of the Milky Way Yuan-Sen Ting, Graduate Student, Harvard University,

Monday, October 3
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course Beckman Institute Auditorium What is Exploration Telepresence and How Can it Help Us Explore Planetary Surfaces of the Solar System?
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Graph Cohomology via Toric Geometry Dagan Karp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Naturalness from a Composite Top? Yue Zhao, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, October 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Fractional Borel Chromatic Numbers Connor Meehan, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Discovering Chemistry From First Principles: The Ab Initio Nanoreactor Todd Martinez, Ehrsam and Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, October 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Sharp Lieb–Thirring inequalities on the continuum and related spectral inequalities for Jacobi operators Lukas Schimmer, Harry Bateman Research Instructor , Department of Mathematics , California Institute of Technology,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence for Quantum Spectral Curves Yan Soibelman, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Operational Thoughts on Data Driven Decision Making Beckman Institute Auditorium

Thursday, October 6
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	SPECIAL TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Evolution of Supernova Remnants near the Galactic Center Almog Yalinewich, Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition Matthew P.A. Fisher, KITP/UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, October 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory Andrew McLeod, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Complete Reionization Constraints from Planck 2015 Polarization Chen He Heinrich, KICP Graduate Student, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The unlikely intersection theory and the cosmetic surgery Conjecture BoGwang Jeon, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics Liyuan Zhao, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Hsieh Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages Matthew Blair, Associate Professor , Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Mexico,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Ioannis Angelopoulos, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall Cosmic Explosions through the Ages: Supernovae Seen with the Naked Eye Jacob Jencson, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Monday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Experimental tests of vacuum energy Csaba Csaki, Cornell University,

Tuesday, October 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Sofic groups Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Topological quantum field theory and geometric invariants Yongbin Ruan, William Fulton Collegiate Professor, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan LSA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Some Equivalence Relations without the Mycielski Property William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Multipartite Multichannel Interferometry for Quantum Information Processing Barry Sanders, University of Calgary,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence Yongbin Ruan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

Wednesday, October 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Global Bifurcations and Coherent States in Nonlinear Wave Equations Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Nanophotonic Quantum Networks in Diamond Alp Sipahigil, Senior Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN Julie Comerford, Colorado,

Thursday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Symmetry Through Geometry Nalini Joshi, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) New Topological Phases of Matter: Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions Zahid Hasan, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Integrated Modeling of GMT Dr. Antonin Bouchez, GMTO,

Friday, October 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Seiberg-Witten theory as a Fermi gas Alba Grassi, ICTP Trieste,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity Wolfgang Wieland, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Relativistic effects on LSS: power spectrum and bispectrum Enea Di Dio, Postdoctoral Fellow, INAF-OATS (Trieste Observatory),
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A monopole invariant for foliations without transverse measure Boyu Zhang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,

Monday, October 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups Hongbin Sun, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon PDF. Aneesh Manohar, UCSD,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar Equivariant Floer homology Sucharit Sarkar, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Prospects for Gravitational Wave Searches for Core-Collapse Supernovae within the Local Universe Jasmine Gill, Department of Physics, ERAU,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Thompson's group F is not strongly amenable Pooya Vahidi Ferdowsi, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Bounds for Finite Linear Groups: From Jordan and Minkowski to a Question of Serre Michael Collins, Emeritus Professor, Mathematics, Oxford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Overview and Status of the GMT Site, Enclosure and Facilities Design and Development Dr. Bruce Bigelow, Giant Magellan Telescope Organization,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Fate of Axion Stars Hong Zhang, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Lateral lipid organization in model membranes Peter Tieleman, Professor of Biochemistry, Biocomputing Group, The University of Calgary,

Wednesday, October 19
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Topics in Matrix Inequalities Rupert Frank, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The MUSCLES Treasury Survey: An X-ray to IR Spectral Survey of Low-Mass Exoplanet Host Stars Kevin France, U. Colorado,

Thursday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Eric Chauvin & Dave Ashby , GMTO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Broadening the Searchlight: New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection Kathryn Zurek, LBNL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Special cycles on non-compact Shimura varieties Zavosh Amir-Khosravi, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, October 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Massive Star Clusters Anna Rosen, Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Hrant Hakobyan, Mathematics Department, Kansas State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects Alon Ron, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,

Monday, October 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmology & Effective Field Theories: Higgs Evolution in Inflation and Large Scale Structure Kathyrn Zurek, LBNL,

Tuesday, October 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar - please note date & time Zeta polynomials for modular forms Ken Ono, Mathematics & Computer Science, Emory University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 265 Observing coating Brownian noise in silicon optics at the zero-expansion point Johannes Eichholz, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Logical aspects of profinite groups André Nies, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland ,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Adiabatic optimization versus diffusion Monte Carlo Stephen Jordan, NIST,
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Memorial Service & Reception for Tom Apostol Athenaeum, Main Lounge
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave. Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes Lars Brink, Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Directed assembly in liquid crystalline environments Juan J. de Pablo, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Fast radio bursts from across the Universe? Vikram Ravi, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups Nathan Kaplan, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Rustem Ismagilov - Diagnostics for Global Health and Antimicrobial Stewardship Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Mod p isogeny classes on Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure Rong Zhou, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis Boris Shraiman, Susan F. Gurley Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biology, Permanent Member of KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hasse Principle for multinorm equations Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 314 Using Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision Joe Kileel, UC Berkeley,

Friday, October 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum computing and topological invariants Stephen Jordan, NIST,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Welzl's Theorem on Graph Homomorphisms Jalex Stark, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Simulating Galactic Winds on Supercomputers Using "Cholla" Evan Schneider, Graduate Student, University of Arizona,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Realization of prism manifolds by integer surgery William Ballinger & Tynan Ochse, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,

Monday, October 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Partially Acoustic Dark Matter, Interacting Dark Radiation, and Large Scale Structure Yuhsin Tsai, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Kerr Comb Generation: Dark Pulse Mode-locking in Normal Dispersion Microresonators Andrew M. Weiner, Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University,

Tuesday, November 1
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Automating Interferometer Control and Noise Regression Eric Quintero, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Interactive Proofs for Quantum Computations Urmila Mahadev, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Amenability of discrete groups Kate Juschenko, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Current Progress in Density Functional Theories Donald G. Truhlar, Regents Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,

Wednesday, November 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral shift functions and Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps Jussi Behrndt, Institut für Numerische Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Cosmic microwave background spectral distortions and their cosmological implications Siavash Yasini, Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cool and Luminous Transients from Merging Binary Stars Ondrej Pejcha, Princeton,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Artificial Intelligence Support of Rosetta Orbiter Science Operations Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Thursday, November 3
10:00 am - 11:00 am	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Deep Learning: the promise and the pitfalls Ashish Mahabal, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Light from Darkness? Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky Tracy Slatyer, Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, November 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 3d N = 2 theories on circle bundles and the Bethe equations Brian Willett, KITP/UCSB,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exact solutions of N = (0 , 2) Landau - Ginzburg models Pavel Putrov, IAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Constraining Dark Physics with Simulations Oliver Elbert, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Summability condition and rigidity for finite type maps Matthieu Astorg, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Rare-earth ions in crystals for integrating quantum resources John Bartholomew, Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice Marta Kwiatkowska, Trinity College, Unversity of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Maximizers for Tomas Stein inequality Rupert Frank, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Joseph Viola, Mathematics Department, Universite de Nantes,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall How to Prepare for the Great American Eclipse of 2017 Erika Hamden, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Caltech,

Monday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Convex Polytopes and Local Models of Shimura Varieties Qiao Zhou, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD JiJi Fan, Ultralight Repulsive Dark Matter, Brown University,

Tuesday, November 8
10:00 am - 4:00 pm	JPL Research Poster Conference JPL
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 106 Brain-Computer Interface Systems and Emerging Directions Brendan Allison, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Kevin Schlaufman, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A new beginning for transient gravitational-wave astrophysics Vivien Raymond, Albert Einstein Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nanotechnology Meets Mechanobiology Young-wook Jun, Associate Professor, Programs in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Robotics for Space Exploration - Challenge to the Moon and Beyond Gates-Thomas 135

Wednesday, November 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Quantum Approximate Markov Chains and the Locality of Entanglement Spectrum Fernando Brandao, Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar A Gromov-Hausdorff Distance for Hilbert Modules Frederic Latremoliere, Mathematics Department, University of Denver,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing the faint universe in emission Erika Hamden, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Carol Raymond - Ceres: An Ancient Ocean World from the Dawn of the Solar System Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors Abhay Pasupathy, Associate Professor of Physics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar An approach to the Casselman-Jacquet functor Alexander Yom Din, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, November 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Callum Quigley, University of Toronto,
11:40 am - 1:00 pm	Veterans Day Celebration & Barbecue Lunch Beckman Mall
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar FERMAT'S LITTLE THEOREM AND EULER'S THEOREM IN THE GAUSSIAN INTEGERS Milan Roberson, California Institute of Technology,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography and the quantum renormalization group Elias Kiritsis, University of Crete,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography and the quantum renormalization group Elias Kiritsis, University of Crete,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Surprising Physics of Boundary Layer Accretion Mikhail Belyaev, TAC Fellow, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Active Semiconductor Nanowire and Metafilm Devices Mark Brongersma, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The geometry of maximal representations in SO(2,3) Jeremy Toulisse, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Classification and simulation of quantum phases by symmetric tensor networks Shenghan Jiang, Graduate Student, Boston College,

Monday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Open Effective Field Theory for Deeply Inelastic Reactions Eric Braaten, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, November 15
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Guestimation of large angle scattering Hiroaki Yamamoto, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium A Proof of Onsager's Conjecture for the Incompressible Euler Equations Philip Isett, Mathematics Department, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia Univ.,

Wednesday, November 16
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Arithmetic of Special Values of L-functions Cristian D. Popescu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era, evidence for hybrid plasma? Andrew Fabian, Cambridge,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Polygonal C*-algebras and their K-theory Alina Vdovina, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Annenberg 213 A generalized Alon-Boppana bound and weak Ramanujan graphs Fan Chung, Mathematics Department, UC San Diego,

Thursday, November 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Measure-preserving group actions and the Lov\'asz Local Lemma Anton Bernshteyn, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hodge-Newton Filtration for p-divisible groups of Hodge type Serin Hong, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum mechanics ?and geometry of spacetime Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study,

Friday, November 18
All Day	Symposium to Celebrate the 75th Birthday of John Schwartz Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy Games Entangled State Dimension Chinmay Nirkhe, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications Kai-Mei Fu, Assistant Professor, Physics and Electrical Engineering , Department of Physics, University of Washington,
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Growth and singularity in 2D fluids Andrej Zlatos, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Measurement protocols for entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra of cold atoms Hannes Pichler, AMP, Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 What is the contribution of blazars to the IceCube neutrino flux? Maria Petropoulou, Einstein Post Doctoral Fellow, Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar On the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology of plumbed 3-manifolds Irving Dai, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus The weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations Cheng Yu, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion Gregory Eskin, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, November 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Many-body Systems Guanyu Zhu, Joint Quantum Institute (NIST-University of Maryland),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Moore B280 Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach. Christoph Flamm, Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Annenberg 105 Multisymplectic HDG methods Ari Stern, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,

Tuesday, November 22
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Multimessenger Astronomy in the First Two Years of Advanced LIGO Alex Urban, LIGO, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 A unified treatment of tidal disruption by Schwarzschild black holes Mike Kesden, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Dallas,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Separating quantum communication complexity and approximate log-rank Ankit Garg, Postdoctoral Scholar, Microsoft Research, New England,

Tuesday, November 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Aqueous Flow Through Two-Dimensional Crystals Joel Eaves, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Marcia Rieke, Univ. of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy Steve Cundiff, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,

Wednesday, November 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Theory Sum Rules, Meromorphic Herglotz Functions and Large Deviations Barry Simon, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Speaker: Omri Azencot, Ph.D. candidate at the Technion (Israel) Title: Operator Representations in Geometry Processing and Applications Annenberg 105 Computing and Mathematicals Sciences Seminar Omri Azencot, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Operator Representations in Geometry Processing and Applications Annenberg 105 Computing and Mathematicals Sciences Seminar Omri Azencot, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium ALMA Observations of Galaxy Evolution and Arp 220 Nick Scoville, Caltech,

Thursday, December 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Friday, December 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gravity from conformal large-N gauge theory Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Automorphy, Wall Crossing, and Symmetries of BPS States Natalie Paquette, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers and their Gravitational Waves Luke Kelley, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States are Hard to Approximate Aram Harrow, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric David Dumas, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Shahaf Nitzan, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Diameter bounds for the Cayley graphs of finite simple groups of large rank Yilong Yang, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, December 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Jonelle Walsh, Texas A & M,

Tuesday, December 6
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Effect of sine-Gaussian transients on searches of gravitational waves from compact coalescing binaries Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Physics, IUCAA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) By Indirections Find Directions Out: Molecular Photovoltaics Mark A. Ratner, Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Chemistry, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, December 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral asymptotics for fractional Laplacian Victor Ivrii, Mathematics Department, University of Toronto,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar On the number of ordinary lines determined by sets in complex space Abdul Basit, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Konstantin Batygin - Planet Nine from Outer Space Beckman Auditorium

Friday, December 9
10:00 am - 11:00 am	"Realizing NSF's Vision for Research and Discovery," a talk with France Cordova, NSF director Kerckhoff 119
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Homological densities Melanie Matchett Wood, Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Visualizing the Behavior of Relativistic Electrons in Simple 2D Potentials in Graphene Dillon Wong, Crommie Group, University of California, Berkeley,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall ALMA: A Revolutionary New View of the Cosmos Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Tuesday, December 13
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 An overview of data quality issues in Advanced LIGO's second observing run  Jess McIver, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium CANCELLED -- Will try to reschedule at a later date Prof. Vicky Kaspi, McGill Univ.,

Friday, December 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Updates on Kilonova Models Jennifer Barnes, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,

Sunday, December 18
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Art Inspired by Astronomy: Maria Popova and Lia Halloran in Conversation Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Tuesday, December 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A Fresh Look at Molecular Gases in Galaxies Prof. Jason Glenn, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder,