Friday, September 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Finite-Temperature Quantum Topological Order in Three Dimensions Tibor Rakovszky, Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdoc Launch Seminar Chen 130

Monday, September 22
8:15 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Interplanetary Laser Trilateration Network Chen 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 What Do Rare Weirdos Tell Us About the Broader Population? An Examination of the Progenitor Systems of Type Ia Supernovae Chang Liu, Graduate Student, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, September 24
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Online Event Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars Laura Duffy, Pennsylvania State University,

Friday, September 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Cosmic Ray Magnetohydrodynamics: A New Two-Moment Framework with Numerical Implementation Xihui Zhao, Graduate Student, Astrophysics, IAS, Princeton and Tsinghua University,

Monday, September 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon Vedant Chandra, Graduate Student, Harvard University,

Tuesday, September 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shaowei Li, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,

Wednesday, October 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Towards an Analytic Bootstrap Framework for Thermal CFTs Deniz Bozkurt, DESY,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Mapping Lines and PAHs Across Cosmic Time in the Infrared Spectral-Photometry Era Yun-Ting Cheng, Caltech/JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Evolution of Star Formation, Gas, and Dust in Galaxies Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Astronomy Department, Caltech, Andreas Faisst, Staff Scientist, IPAC, Caltech,

Thursday, October 2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Unoriented 2-dimensional TQFTs Agustina Czenky, Simons Collaboration Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Fundamental Physics with Polyatomic Molecules and Exotic Nuclei Nick Hutzler, Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Intersection of Hecke correspondences and a general conjecture Qiao He, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Scaling limit of a weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process in the framework of regularity structures Hendrik Weber, Professor, Münster Mathematics, Universität Münster,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Quot schemes of points on torus knot singularities Yifeng Huang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, USC,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 The Zigzag Strategy for Random Band Matrices. Volodymyr Riabov, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Erdoes Research Group,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Sampling Duality Adrian Gonzalez Casanova, Associate Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizone State University,

Friday, October 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 TBD Ali Naseri Sadr, PhD Candidate, Department of Mathematics, Boston College,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Searching for Near-Earth Objects Joe Masiero, Research Scientist, Caltech IPAC,

Monday, October 6
8:00 am - Wednesday 5:00 pm	Infrared Spectroscopy from Space: New Frontiers from Exoplanets to the Early Universe Ramo Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Final Results from the Muon $g-2$ Experiment at Fermilab James Labounty, University of Washington,

Tuesday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Bridging Quantum and Classical: an Efficient Framework for Capturing Zero-Point Effects in Hydrogen-Rlated Chemistry Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin- Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Covariance-Modulated Optimal Transport and Gradient Flows Franca Hoffmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Bottom-up de Sitter holography David Kolchmeyer, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Multidimensional Physics of Stars & other Astrophysical Bodies Daniel Lecoanet, Assistant Professor, CIERA, Northwestern University, ,

Thursday, October 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Could modern CMOS ICs provide a platform for quantum sensors, computers and simulators? John Morton, Professor, Nanoelectronics & Nanophotonics, University College London (UCL),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Energy Correlators at the Collider Frontier Ian Moult, Assistant Professor of Physics, Particle Physics, Yale,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Arithmetic aspects of Hecke traces Liubomir Chiriac, Associate Professor, Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University,

Friday, October 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Horizon Edge Modes in Λ > 0 Quantum Gravity Albert Law, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Prethermal dynamical regimes and resonant melting in quenched quantum matter Alexey Khudorozhkov, Boston University,
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm	GW251010: Celebrating 10 years of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with LIGO Ramo Auditorium Welcome ,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Energy Operators in Particle Physics, QFT, and Gravity Ian Moult, Yale University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Accretion and Feedback from Galaxies to Event Horizons Minghao Guo, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 TBD Kai Nakamura, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,

Monday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Quantum Forces in Standard Model and Dark Sector Bingrong Yu, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 The Inhomogeneous Evolution of Uranus and Neptune Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Astrophysical Sciences Department, Princeton University,

Tuesday, October 14
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning Yash Jhaveri, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers University–Newark,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Action Gaps and Advantages in Continuous-Time Distributional Reinforcement Learning Yash Jhaveri, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rutgers University-Newark,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Detecting the First Hydration Shell Structures of Biopolymers Elsa Yan, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Yale University,

Wednesday, October 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event The soft physics of amplitudes in background fields Sonja Klisch, Perimeter Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Tarski's circle squaring problem with algebraic translations and few pieces Andrew Marks, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Exponential anticoncentration of the permanent Matthew Kwan, Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Talk Online Event Determination of Physical Properties of Main Belt Asteroids Using WISE/NEOWISE Data Kiana McFadden, University of Arizona,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Lagrangian Dual Sections: A Topological View of Hidden Convexity Kevin Shu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, EM Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes Smadar Naoz, Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,

Thursday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event The search for axion dark matter Ben Safdi, Associate Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Malle's conjecture over function fields Aaron Landesman, Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	PMA Fall Gathering

Friday, October 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Triangulating Quantum Gravity in AdS_3 Tom Hartman, Cornell University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 310 Engineering Coupled Quantum Interfaces for Superconducting Quantum Technologies Hung-Yu Yang, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdoc Launch Seminar Broad 100
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Evolution of Gas Giant Planets Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Unoriented link Floer homology and Khovanov homology Gheehyun Nahm, PhD Student, Princeton Math, Princeton University,

Monday, October 20
8:15 am - 12:30 pm	CANCELLED: KISS Short Course - Hybrid Space-Ground Observatories: Revolutionizing the Search for Earth-Like Exoplanets Chen 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Probing Ultra-heavy Particle Physics using Precision Cosmology Soubhik Kumar, Tufts University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Towards coarse-grained models of molecules David Pekker, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh,

Tuesday, October 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Percolation on transitive graphs Minghao Pan, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Informal Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with Light Judith Su, Craig M. Berge Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor in Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Equivariant Birational Geometry Yuri Tschinkel, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

Wednesday, October 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Analytic Functional in the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap Zechuan Zheng, Perimeter Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Generic group properties Tamás Kátay, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) New Tools for Debris Disk Imaging: Keck/NIRC2-Pol and GRaTer-JAX GPU Models Briley Lewis, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Missing Link: Planet Formation from Millions to Billions of Years Meredith Hughes, Chair, Astronomy Department; Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University,
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	CANCELLED: Revolutionizing Astrophysics: How Space and Ground Telescopes Can Work Together Chen 100
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Molecules, Mysteries, and the Matter of Existence, with Nick Hutzler Beckman Auditorium Nick Hutzler, assistant professor of physics,

Thursday, October 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Fast, Ultrasensitive, Label-Free Molecular Detection with FLOWER and Beyond Judith Su, Associate Professor, Optical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Whittaker averaging and singular support Jeremy Taylor, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Los Angeles,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event From Lab to Cosmos: Three Frontiers in the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth Sara Seager, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Manin's conjecture for Châtelet surfaces Katharine Woo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Quantum cohomology of variations of GIT quotients and flips Zhaoxing Gu, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Friday, October 24
9:30 am - 10:30 am	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Gravitational Waves from the Fifth-Force Mergers Xingpeng Wang, Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Algebras for generalized entanglement wedges? Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Digital quantum simulation and error correction frontier with atom arrays Simon Evered, Harvard,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Bridging Scales in Black Hole Accretion and Feedback: Relativistic Jet linking the Horizon to the Host Galaxy Hyerin Cho, Graduate Student, CfA, Harvard University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Splitting spheres and barbells Alison Tatsuoka, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Dark Radiation from the Axiverse Christopher Dessert, Flatiron Institute CCA,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap Exoplanets Katelyn Horstman, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech, Aniket Sanghi, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event On Theories of Neutrino Masses and Dark Matter Pavel Fileviez Perez, Case Western University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Spectroscopic Probes of (Interstellar) Aromatic Molecular Evolution Brett A McGuire, Associate Professor; Adjunct Assistant Astronomer,, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, October 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Flat Space/Carrollian Limit of AdS/CFT Romain Ruzziconi, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces Riccardo Camerlo, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Università di Genova,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Kernel Based Moving Object Detection Dino Bektešević, U. Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Discoveries of Interstellar PAHs from Cold Clouds to the Solar System Brett McGuire, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Thursday, October 30
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum advantage from random geometrically-two-local Hamiltonian dynamics Yihui Queck, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Hunting the Unexpected: Anomaly Detection and Real-Time Triggers at the Large Hadron Collider Jennifer Ngadiuba, Fermilab,

Friday, October 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Continuous Non-Invertible Symmetries Diego Delmastro, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Planar fault-tolerant circuits for non-Clifford logic gates – decoding non-Abelian phases Julio Magdalena, Freie Universitat Berlin, ,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Towards Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes and Stochastic Backgrounds Luca Reali, Graduate Student, Astrophysics & Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Curvature, macroscopic dimensions, and symmetric products of surfaces Ekansh Jauhari, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida,

Monday, November 3
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - One Shot to Glory: Designing Adaptive Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond Broad 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Particles Asher Berlin, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Tides, Tori, and Disintegration: Spectral and Photometric Signatures of Volcanic Exoplanets and Exomoons Apurva V. Oza, Research Scientist, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm	Engineering a Sustainable Future: Science, Innovation, and Human Welfare Beckman Auditorium

Tuesday, November 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 A Lie-Algebraic Perspective on Tree-Adjoining Grammars Elizabeth Xiao, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special AMO Seminar East Bridge 114 Pseudogap at ultralow temperatures in a Fermi-Hubbard quantum simulator Lev Kendrick, Department of Physics- Lithium Lab, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Asymptotics for the Toda Lattice Amol Aggarwal, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Free mutual information and higher-point OTOCs Jinzhao Wang, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Rokhlin's lemma for infinite measure preserving bijections François Le Maître, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Burgundy Institute of Mathematics (IMB),
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Systematic Uncertainties in Transiting Exoplanets and Their Host Stars Alison Duck, JPL,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Sparsity in the numerical six-point bootstrap Sebastian Harris, DESY,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 r(3,k) in two bites Dylan King, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 An introduction to quantum image encryption Claire Levaillant, Professor, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems from the Outside In Brendan Bowler, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Thursday, November 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special QM Seminar West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room) Controlling material properties at the femtosecond timescale Daniel Lesko, Chair of Laser Physics, Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Quantum Schubert Calculus from lattice models Leonardo Mihalcea, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Demystifying Graviton Detection Igor Pikovski, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Affine Schubert varieties are splinters Robert Cass, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont McKenna College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Wall crossing for moduli of stable pairs Fanjun Meng, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, University of California - San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Scaling limit of the half-space KPZ equation Christian Serio, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Locality of Epidemics on Graphs Yeganeh Alimohammadi, Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, USC,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum TBA Christopher Hoffman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

Friday, November 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Entropic Order Fedor Popov, Stony Brook University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Testing Quantum Theory on Curved Space-Time with Atomic Clocks Igor Pikovski, Stevens Institute of Technology,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event The role of triple evolution in shaping Galactic binaries and transients Abinaya Rajamuthukumar, Graduate Student, Astrophysics, MPA-Garching,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Singularities of Hamiltonian Stationary Lagrangian Surfaces Filippo Gaia, SNSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Building the World's Most Powerful Radio Telescope Gregg Hallinan, Professor of Astronomy; Director of Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Caltech,

Monday, November 10
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm	Math Teaching Seminar Linde Hall 359 Conversations About Math Teaching Tynan Ochse, Curriculum Director, Art of Problem Solving,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 From phason mass to the magneto-chiral instability: THz nonlinear electrodynamics of collective excitations in solids Professor Fahad Mahmood, Assistant Professor, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Cosmology of dark forces: strong limits and 𝜈 effects Erwin Tanin, Stanford University,

Tuesday, November 11
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Automated Conjecturing and Discovery in Mathematics Randy Davila, Lecturer, Department of Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Formation and dissociation of hydrocarbons under interstellar conditions Jordy Bouwman, Assistant Professor of Cosmochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Where can free waves concentrate? Ruixiang Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Berkeley,

Wednesday, November 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event A Black Hole Airy Tail Pratik Rath, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Minimal Subdynamics: Descriptive ideas about Dynamical Questions Josh Frisch, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - San Diego,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Potential Target Stars and Planetary Systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Caleb Harada, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres and protostellar mass flows with JWST Tom Greene, Research Professor of Astronomy; Executive Director IPAC, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Fold-transversal surface code cultivation Kaavya Sahay, Yale,

Thursday, November 13
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Annenberg 213 An area law for metastable states Chi Fang (Anthony) Chen, Simons Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Matrix points on varieties Yifan Wei, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UW-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event The quest to improve Gravitational wave detection, parameter inference algorithms, and multi-messenger astrophysics Barak Zackay, Professor, Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Local and global biases of modular forms Kimball Martin, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Osaka Metropolitan University and University of Oklahoma,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Hodge-theoretic open/closed correspondence and integral structures Song Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Yan Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,

Friday, November 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Algebras and Emergence of Time: global physics from a local state Nima Lashkari, Purdue University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Error Correction in Nearly Critical Toric Codes Zack Weinstein, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Alicea Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event From Gravitational Wave Bursts to Binary Dynamics: Unlocking the Astrophysics of Eccentric Sources Zeyuan Xuan, Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy Department, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Beck-Fiala and Komlós Bounds Beyond Banaszczyk Haotian Jiang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago,

Saturday, November 15
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	David Baltimore Memorial Beckman Auditorium

Sunday, November 16
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm	City of Astronomy Science Festival

Monday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Open Effective Field Theory of Inflation Santiago Agüí-Salcedo, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Rains & Quakes in 3D Massive Stars: First Light of the AREPO-Star Project Jing-ze Ma, PhD Student at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,

Tuesday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Can quantum invariants read the geometry of a knot? Lara San Martinez Suarez, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 From Optimal Transport to Collective Intelligence: Lifelong and Agentic Reinforcement Learning via Task Embeddings Eva Liu, Ph.D. student, Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies, Vanderbilt University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Yang-Mills, probability, and stochastic PDE Sky Cao, NSF postdoctoral fellow and C.L.E. Moore Instructor, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Plasma Physics" and "Building a Star" Eva Kostadinova, Professor, Department of Physics, Auburn University, Oak Nelson, Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Columbia University,

Wednesday, November 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Ensemble Averages of Fuzzballs Yoav Zigdon, Tel Aviv University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event The Radon–Nikodym topography of measure-class-preserving equivalence relations Anush Tserunyan, Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics Department, McGill University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) New Views on Extreme Starbursts: Clumps in Local ULIRGs with JWST Laura Lenkić, Caltech/IPAC,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Rotationally symmetric plabic graphs and the Lagrangian Grassmannian Olha Shevchenko, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New Views of Gas, Stellar Feedback, and the Interstellar Medium Adam Leroy, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Thirteen Years in the Dust: How a Robot Showed that Mars Was Once Habitable, with Ashwin Vasavada Beckman Auditorium Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist, Mars Science Laboratory, JPL,

Thursday, November 20
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Annenberg 213 Local fault-tolerant error correction with simulated confinement Ethan Lake, UC Berkeley,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Quantum Invariants and Fiberedness Lara San Martin Suarez, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Universality in the Collective Behavior of Open Quantum Systems Ana Asenjo Garcia, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar The homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in affine space Jaspreet Singh, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Rings of scalar-valued automorphic forms on certain Deligne–Mostow Shimura varieties Yuxin Lin, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Our Sun" and "Nuclear Fusion on Earth" David Schaffner, Professor, Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College, Mario Manuel, Research Scientist, General Atomics,

Friday, November 21
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Astronomy Special Seminar Cahill 370 Mapping the Diffuse Ultraviolet Universe with NASA's Aspera Mission and Advancing UV Detector Technologies Aafaque R. Khan, PhD. Candidate, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Maximizing the Interaction Strength Miguel Correia, McGill University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Entanglement Bootstrap and Conformal Field Theory Ting-Chun (David) Lin, University of California San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Star formation and evolution in AGN disks - general applications of planet formation across cosmic scales Yixian Chen, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Non-collapsing of Ricci shrinkers with bounded curvature Conghan Dong, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Mathematics, Duke University,

Monday, November 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Spectrum completeness from dispersion relations Michele Tarquini, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Cosmic Detectives: Discovering High-Redshift Quasars and Solving the Mystery of Their Gas Halos Tatevik Mkrtchyan, graduate student; Universidad Diego Portales, Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos,
4:00 pm - 4:55 pm	Math Teaching Seminar Linde Hall 359 Conversations About Teaching Jaeden Bardati, PhD Student, Department of Physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. DePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Linde Hall 310 What is your number? Logic puzzles for mathematicians Joel David Hamkins, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Logic, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online Event Bhargava's geometry-of-numbers beyond Davenport's lemma Artane Siad, Assistant Professor, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,

Monday, December 1
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Next Frontiers in the Investigation of Extraterrestrial Organics Chen 100
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Next Frontiers in the Investigation of Extraterrestrial Organics Chen 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-invertible chiral symmetry and the ABJ anomaly on the lattice Professor Lukasz Fidkowski, Associate Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter - Quantum Information, University of Washington, Seattle,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Hot and (Un)bothered: Unveiling the Complex Dynamical Histories of Hot Jupiters Brandon Radzom, graduate student; Indiana University,

Tuesday, December 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Polynomial Szemerédi for sets with large Hausdorff dimension on the Torus Guo Dong Hong, PhD Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Furkan Ozturk, Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry, Division of Geological and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 TBD Sumanth Varambally, PhD Student, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 The inverse mean curvature flow Kai Xu, Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, December 3
11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Drew Gilpin Faust Athenaeum
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Brandon Rayhaun, Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Anomalies of Defect Parameter Spaces and a Spin-Flux Duality Brandon Rayhaun, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Hyper-u-amenability and hyperfiniteness of treeable equivalence relations Andrea Vaccaro, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): The Properties of Quasar Host Galaxies: Star Formation Histories and Stellar Populations Maria Stone, INAF, Rome and FINCA, Finland,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Parallel Sampling via Autospeculation Thuy-Duong (June) Vuong, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley/UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Lightning Talks Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lightning Talks for All New Postdocs and Research Staff
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Gaussian Bosonic Dynamics in the Presence of Symmetry: Engineering, Monotones and Conservation Laws Nick Koukoulekidis, Duke University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Special Probability Seminar Linde Hall 387 Infinite-dimensional diffusions from random matrix dynamics Theo Assiotis, Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh,

Thursday, December 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Aidan Reilly, Stanford University,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 The phantom tautological ring for the moduli of Shtukas Zhiwei Yun, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Convergent points for random power series on the unit circle Marcus Michelen, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background Jo Dunkley, Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Asymptotics of the Resistance of the Critical Series-Parallel Graph via Parabolic PDE Theory Peter Morfe, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Localization and support in D(G) Claus Sorensen, Professor, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC Joint Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310 Extremal quantum cohomology and Gamma structure for standard flips Mark Shoemaker, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Exact dimensionality of harmonic measures for random walks on lamplighter groups Peter Kosenko, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,

Friday, December 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Large N Universality of 4d N=1 SCFT and Holography Jaewon Song, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology),
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 End-to-End Efficient Quantum Thermal and Ground State Preparation Made Simple Yongtao Zhan, Preskill group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Emergent Flat Space from Quantum Entanglement Tianli Wang, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Stellar forensics: tracing the origin of interaction-powered supernovae and Type-Ia supernova remnants Soham Mandal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Painlevé VI: the search for canonical representations Aaron Landesman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The History of the Solar System: Insights from JWST Observations of Asteroids Katherine de Kleer, Professor, Department of Planetary Science, Caltech,

Monday, December 8
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 387 TBD Bjoern Bringmann, TBD, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Yuval Grossman, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Electron Spin, Chiral Symmetry Breaking, and Life's Homochirality Furkan Ozturk, Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Geochemistry; William H. Hurt Scholar, Geobiology and Geochemistry, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Sleeping Giants: Telling Case Studies of Changing-look Quasars/Creating Space-Based, All-Sky Surveys to Study the Death and Afterlife of Stars Laura Duffy, graduate student, Penn State University, Hannah Gulick, graduate student, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Math Teaching Seminar Linde Hall 359 Mathematics Teaching Seminar Jedi Tsang, CTLO Program Manager, Center for Teaching, Learning, & Outreach, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	The Continuing Legacy of Galileo at 30 Chen 100

Tuesday, December 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Flow matching for (generalized) Schrödinger bridges and dynamical optimal transport Stephen Zhang, PhD Student, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Mean-Field Actor-Critic Flow: A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Mean-Field Game Haosheng Zhou, PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics & Applied Probability, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Heat, wave, and Schrödinger dynamics of Gibbs measures Bjoern Bringmann, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

Wednesday, December 10
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Studying the three-dimensional architecture of transiting planets and their outer companions in the era of Gaia Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Euclid space mission M. Claudia Scarlata, Distinguished McKnight University Professor (Director of MIfA), Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota,

Thursday, December 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Decoding the sub-parsec scale environment of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries Mudit Garg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics, New York University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium - Christy Lecture Online and In-Person Event Neutron Star Mergers, Kilonovae, and Kilonova Impostors Dan Kasen, Professor of Physics, Physics, UB Berkeley,

Friday, December 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Nishad Maskara, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Metastable helium in the upper thermosphere Shri Kulkarni, Professor, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 289 Non-vanishing for cubic Hecke $L$-functions Alexander Dunn, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 289 Late-time tails for nonlinear waves in four dimensions Shi-Zhuo Looi, Olga Taussky and John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Chaotic properties of smooth systems and related topics Adam Kanigowski, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland,