Tuesday, September 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum Computation with Identical Bosons Alex Arkhipov, MIT,

Monday, September 11
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	To Boldly Go... Well, You Know: NASA's Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Friday, September 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Probing the strong gravity regime with black-hole ringdowns Swetha Bhagwat, Syracuse University,

Tuesday, September 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nanoscale Lasing: a Conundrum? Teri W. Odom, Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, September 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dust Formation Is Not Voodoo Chris Kichanek, Ohio State University,

Friday, September 22
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Where to Find Real Time Machines and How to Use Them Andreas Faisst, Postdoctoral Research, IPAC, Caltech,

Tuesday, September 26
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Gravity Spy - Integrating LIGO detector characterization, citizen science, and machine learning Scott Coughlin, Northwestern,

Wednesday, September 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium SPHEREx: An All-sky Infrared Spectral Survey Explorer Satellite Jamie Bock, Caltech,

Thursday, September 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale by imaging Xiaowei Zhuang, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, September 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Coulomb branches of conformal field theories Philip Argyres, University of Cincinnati,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Opportunities at the entanglement frontier John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Testing the Caustic Ring Dark Matter Halo Model Against Observations in the Milky Way Julie Dumas, Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbuilt University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Geometric Structures with Quasi-Hitchin Holonomy Daniele Alessandrini, Mathematical Institute, University of Heidelberg,

Monday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars Nirmal Raj, Notre Dame University,

Tuesday, October 3
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) The impact of detector characterization on gravitational wave searches Derek Thomas Davis, Syracuse,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 105 CANCELLED - Stability in the homology of configuration spaces Jenny Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Tropical motivic integration Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,

Wednesday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium AS4: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) CANCELLED - Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces Alex Wright, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Moonshine, Automorphy, and String Theory Natalie Paquette, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

Thursday, October 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales? Renato Renner, Professor for Theoretical Physics and head of the research group for Quantum Information Theory, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials Shana Kelley, Distinguished Professor , Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 p-adic L-functions for nearly finite slope Hilbert modular forms and the Exceptional Zero Conjecture Mladen Dimitrov, Mathematics Department, Université Lille 1,

Friday, October 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Uncovering flavor of N=2 SCFTs through geometry Matteo Lotito, University of Cincinnati,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Thermodynamics at the nano scale: The work cost of information processing Philippe Faist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation David Guszejnov, Graduate Student, TAPIR Group, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Complex curves through a contact lens Kyle Hayden, Department of Mathemaatics, Boston College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 A Polynomial Roth theorem on the Real Line Polona Durcik, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 TBA Laura Cladek, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, October 9
8:40 am - 12:30 pm	Short Course: Accessing the Subsurface Oceans of Icy Worlds South Mudd 365
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Empirical determination of Dark Matter velocity distribution Lina Necib, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Dimension-free estimates for discrete spherical maximal functions Ben Krause, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planets Close-in and Far-out Eve J. Lee, Caltech,

Thursday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) First Light Matt Dobbs, Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), Astrophysics & Cosmology in the Department of Physics, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Etale and crystalline companions: some applications of the Langlands correspondence Kiran Kedlaya, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,

Friday, October 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Applications of the Average Null Energy Condition Clay Cordova, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Universal Hamiltonians for Exponentially Long Simulation Thom Bohdanowicz, Graduate Student, Brandao Group,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Geometric Constructions Luke Juusola, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Moving Mesh Astrophysics Paul Duffell, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Projective Anosov representations and convex cocompact actions Andrew Zimmer, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary,

Monday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Parallel transport and the p-adic Simpson correspondence Daxin Xu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Non-Gaussian Enhancements of Galactic Halo Correlators due to Isocurvaton Mediated Inflaton Interactions Alexander Ridgway, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 The Geometry of the Quantum Set Koon Tong Goh, National University of Singapore,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Higher walks and stronger homology theories Jeffrey Bergfalk, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,

Wednesday, October 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Food patterns and obesity prevalence across countries: A machine learning application Jocelyn Dunstan, University of Chile, Santiago,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 131 TBA Zaher Hani, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies Robyn Ellyn Sanderson, Caltech,

Thursday, October 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science Mikhail Lukin, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 multiple zeta-half values, double shuffle equation, and connection with cusp forms Ming Da, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,

Friday, October 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Markov property of the CFT vacuum and the entropic proof of the a-theorem Eduardo Teste Lino, Centro Atomico Bariloche,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Exactly Solvable Model for Two Dimensional Topological Superconductor Zitao Wang, Graduate Student, Xie Chen Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Searching for Biases in Observations of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies Using Simulations Andrew Graus, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Concordance invariants from truncated Heegaard Floer homology Linh Truong, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Eigenvalue Asymptotics for Dirichlet-to-Neumann Operator Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Konstantin Tikhomirov, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Fireworks Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Matter and the LZ Experiment Carter Hall, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Categorification at prime roots of unity You Qi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Comparing SSS17a with GW170817 Michael Coughlin, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Entanglement transformation and the structure of matrix space Yinan Li, University of Technology Sydney,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Combinatorics Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Simple 3-designs constructed from finite classic groups and Preparata codes Hao Shen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 A recursion theoretic property of analytic equivalence relations Howard Becker, Visiting Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Diophantine equations, L-functions, and Shimura varieties Yifeng Liu, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis" Herbert Levine, Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Director, Center of Theoretical Biological Physics, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (1st of 2 parts) Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium GW170817: Gravitational Waves from the Merger of Two Neutron Stars Jess McIver, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Debris Disks as Probes of Planetary System Evolution Meredith MacGregor, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 p-adic Mellin amplitudes Sarthak Parikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, October 26
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Searching for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups Siddarth Mishra-Sharma, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics Steve Giddings, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The Hasse-Weil zeta functions of orthogonal Shimura varieties Yihang Zhu, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University ,

Friday, October 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Complexity in holography and QFT Shira Chapman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Shining Light On Quantum Magnetism Nicholas Laurita, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Erdős-Szekeres convex polygon problem Gideon Leeper, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The history of inter- and circumgalactic gas since reionization Phoebe Upton-Sanderbeck, Graduate Student, University of Washington,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	CMS/EE Special Seminar Annenberg 213 Causal Inference in the Presence of Latent Nodes Negar Kiyavash, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants Tian Yang, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,

Monday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Monodromic complexes, Koszul duality, and tilting characters of reductive Shotaro Makisumi, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unlocking the potential of CMS data: boosted Higgs, low-mass dijet resonances, and data scouting Javier Duarte, Fermilab,

Tuesday, October 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Strong conceptual completeness for L_{\omega_1\omega} Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Efficient classical simulation of noisy quantum circuit Xun Gao, Tsinghua University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Meet the Laureates Olive Walk
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Constructing pseudorandom matrices with polynomial convolutions Adam Marcus, Mathematics Department, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing and Isolation Lemma (2nd of 2 parts) Rohit Gurjar, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stellar-mass black holes: X-ray binaries vs LIGO/Virgo? Peter Jonker, SRON/NL,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Linda J. Spilker - "Going Out in a Blaze of Glory: Cassini Mission Highlights" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture - Quantum matter without quasiparticles: strange metals and black holes Subir Sachdev, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The pseudo-identity operator on automorphic functions Jonathan Wang, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,

Friday, November 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Dynamical Holographic Entropy Cone and General Holography Sean Weinberg, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Engineering topological materials in one and two dimensions Stevan Nadj-Perge, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 A multi-scale portrait of the circumgalactic medium Drummond Fielding, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 314 Recovering quantum gates from few average gate fidelities Ingo Roth, FU Berlin ,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem David Gabai, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Downs 103 Univalent wandering domains in the Eremenko-Lyubich Class Kirill Lazebnik, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Downs 103 L^2 Estimates for the Discrete Quadratic Carleson Operator Ben Krause, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Developments and Prospects in Precision Timing Detectors Artur Apresyan, CERN,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments: Steampunk Meets Spacecraft Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Tuesday, November 7
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Numerical binary black hole mergers in dynamical Chern-Simons Maria Okounkova, Caltech,
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Stability in the homology of configuration spaces Jenny Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Strange structures from computable model theory Howard Becker, visiting Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces Alex Wright, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 8
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 A Thurston boundary for the Teichmüller space of an infinite Riemann surface Francis Bonahon, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: the Kepler Light Curves Krista Lynne Smith, KIPAC, Stanford,

Thursday, November 9
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Sharp estimates for Hörmander-type operators with positive-definite phase Marina Iliopoulou, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Demonology: The Curious Role of Intelligence in Physics & Biology James Crutchfield, Professor of Physics, Directory of Complexity Sciences Center, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Supersingular Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography Kristin Lauter, Cryptography Group, Microsoft Research,

Friday, November 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BPS Graphs of Class S Theories Pietro Longhi, Uppsala University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Algebraic Geometry Error-Correcting Codes Matthew Weidner, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes Yoni BenTov, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kitaev Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 GPU accelerated thermochemistry and radiative transfer on protoplanetary disks and exoplanet outflows Lile Wang, Graduate Student, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces Koray Aydin, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University,

Monday, November 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Singular support for coherent sheaves and categories Dima Arinkin, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Accelerating axion dark matter searches with quantum information technology Konrad Lehnert, JILA,

Tuesday, November 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Non-archimedean distributions attached to twisted tensor L-functions Baskar Balasubramanyam, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Science Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Gravitational-wave polarizations: what have we learned, what will we learn, and why does it matter Maximiliano Isi, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 An Operator Algebraic Tool for Deducing Measure Equivalence of Groups Daniel Hoff, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information David Perez-Garcia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces Netanel Raviv, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves Dima Arinkin, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium TBD Mansi Kasliwal & Gregg Hallinan, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 15
10:00 am - 4:00 pm	2017 JPL Research Poster Conference JPL
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium An X-ray View of the Dusty Universe Lia Corrales, Univ of Wisconsin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A multiplier functional calculus Michael Hartz, Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Heather A. Knutson - "The Grand Tour: Exploring Planets Outside the Solar System" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 16
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A string-inspired SYK model and some 4d black hole phenomenology Tarek Anous, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay Chen-Yu Liu, Assistant Professor, CEEM/Physics Department, Indiana University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Steering Photons: From detectors and smart windows to space propulsion and quantum forces Jeremy Munday, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Globally analytic representations of the pro-p Iwahori of GL(2) and Laurent Clozel, Département de Mathématiques d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud,

Friday, November 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Theory and Integrability (Part 1)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides Alex Burgers, Postdoctoral Scholar, Kimble Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Theory and Integrability (Part 2) Mashahito Yamazaki, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Make it, Mix it and Shake it — a recipe for cold gas in circumgalactic medium Suoqing Ji, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Bordered theory for pillowcase homology Artem Kotelskiy, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Jonathan Luk, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Victor Lie, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Lenses: Bending Light with Gravity Denise Schmitz, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, November 20
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar The simplification of singularities of Lagrangian and Legendrian fronts Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The (noncommutative) geometry of difference equations Eric Rains, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Peaks, Valleys, Deserts: Searching for the invisible at the LHC Christopher Rogan, University of Kansas,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar A sheaf-theoretic model for SL(2,C) Floer homology Ciprian Manolescu, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar - NOTE THE DIFFERENT DAY Cahill 370 Formation of eccentric black hole gravitational wave mergers Johan Samsing, Einstein and Spitzer-Cotsen Fellow, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Interpolating sequences and Kadison-Singer Michael Hartz, Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Products of projections in Hilbert space: The interplay of slow convergence of cyclic projections and non-convergence of random projections Eva Kopecka, Institut für Mathematik, Universitat Innsbruck,

Wednesday, November 22
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Isoperimetric shapes in supercritical bond percolation Julian Gold, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,

Monday, November 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Drinfeld-Gaitsgory functor and contragradient duality for $(g,K)$-modules Sasha Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fine-tuning, Vorticity, and Singularities Peter Graham, Stanford University,

Tuesday, November 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Non-classification of Cartan subalgebras for a class of von Neumann algebras Pieter Spaas, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Irreversibility and symmetry principles for general quantum processes David Jennings, University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Recent progress on correlations of multiplicative functions Maksym Radziwill, Department of Mathematics, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Gradient coding -- When coding theory and distributed computing meet Netanel Raviv, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Astrochemistry at the dawn of star and planet formation in the ALMA Era Paola Caselli, MPI,

Thursday, November 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Topological photonics: from classical to quantum Mohammed Hafezi, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics Departments, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Supercuspidal L-packets Tasho Kaletha, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan ,

Friday, December 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Ricardo Schiappa, Universidade de Lisboa,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Exploring non-equilibrium phase transitions with driven Rydberg ensembles Michael Buchhold, Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Tin Sulejmanpasic, ENS Paris,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Exploring compact-binary astrophysics with multi-messenger astronomy Katelyn Breivik, Graduate Student, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Downs 103 TBA Philip Isett, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Congruences between base change and non base change Jacques Tilouine, Institut Galilée, Universite Paris 13,
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Downs 103 TBA Matthew Foreman, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,

Monday, December 4
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Irreducible SL(2,C)-representations of integer homology 3-spheres Raphael Zentner, Mathematics Department, University of Regensburg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Matter in neutron-star mergers Jocelyn Read, California State University Fullerton,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Smooth structures, stable homotopy groups of spheres and motivic homotopy theory Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, MIT,

Tuesday, December 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Large-Scale Data Science Fabian Gieseke, Large-Scale Data Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 The Fraisse Limit of Finite Dimensional Matrix Algebras with the Rank Metric Aaron Anderson, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Classical branches and entanglement structure in the wavefunction of cosmological fluctuations Elliot Nelson, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Factorization Homology John Francis, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, December 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Invariant vectors by deeper Iwahori subgroups in non-supercuspidal representations of U(2,1) Mladen Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, University of Lille,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Aaron D. Ames - "Toward the Robots of Science Fiction" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 7
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Extensions of vector bundles on the Fargues-Fontaine curve Serin Hong, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Friday, December 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Entanglement in gauge theories and gravity Jennifer Lin, Institute for Advanced Study,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic Mellin Amplitudes Xinan Zhou, SUNY Stony Brook,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special ACM and CMX Seminar Annenberg 213 Numerical Methods for Fractional Laplacians Professor Gabriel Acosta, Department of Mathematics, Univeristy of Buenos Aires,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Reconciling optical and radio observations of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1640+2224 Sarah Vigeland, Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 TBA Sarah Vigeland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 TBA Jonah Gaster, Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Brown Dwarfs: Too Small a Star; Too Massive a Planet Kaew Tinyanont, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, December 9
8:30 am - 5:00 pm	Symposium - Plan B: Engineering a Cooler Earth Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
8:30 am - 5:00 pm	Symposium - Plan B: Engineering a Cooler Earth Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Monday, December 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 On the structure of some p-adic period domains Laurent Fargues, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu and CNRS,

Tuesday, December 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Beyond classical computing via randomized low-depth quantum circuits Michael Bremner, University of Technology Sydney,

Friday, December 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 White Dwarf – Neutron Star Mergers: from Peculiar Supernovae to Pulsar Planets Ben Tal Margalit, Graduate Student, Columbia University,