Monday, March 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Probing quantum many-body systems at the single-particle level Manuel Endres, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exploring dark sectors with low-energy experiments Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Thirty Meter Telescope: The Next Generation of Ground Based Optical/Infra Red Observatory Warren Skidmore, TMT,

Tuesday, April 1
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Random Walks and their Scaling Limits Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Stellar and Dark Mass Assembly of Galaxies Dr. Niv Drory, Univ. of Texas, Austin,

Wednesday, April 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Singularities and why we love them: universal behaviors in geometric heat flows Dan Knopf, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Univ. of Texas at Austin,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Mutual dimension Jack Lutz, Professor , Mathematics, Iowa State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The EAGLE Universe Richard Bower, Durham,
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Arlases consisting of Bruhat cells Allen Knutson, Professor, Mathematics, Cornell University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Sarkis Mazmanian - Say Hello to Your Little Friends: How Gut Bacteria Can Be Harnessed as Novel Therapies for Disease Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On level 1 algebraic cusp forms of classical groups Gaetan Chenevier, Professor, Mathematics, École Polytechnique ,
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part II Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Explaining Physics in a Minute (or Two) Henry Reich, MinutePhysics,

Friday, April 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Ibou Bah, University of Southern California,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs Andrew Wetzel, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Seiberg-Witten Floer KO-theory and intersection forms of spin 4-manifolds Jianfen Lin, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Congruent skein relations for quantum invariants of links Qingtao Chen, Professor, Mathematics, ICTP,

Monday, April 7
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part III Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene Inti Sodemann, University of Texas at Austin,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The specific Star Formation Rate Plateau and the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies between z~8 and z~4 Valentino Gonzalez, UC Riverside,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Spatio-Temporal Correlation Mining Professor Alfred Hero, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Michigan ,

Tuesday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Direct Dynamics and Intrinsic Non-RRKM Dynamics. Applications to SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions William L. Hase, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Tidally Heated ExoMoons (THEM): Theory, Observational Prospects & Astrobiological Possibilities Prof. Edwin Turner, Princeton Univ.,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Free Public Panel: The Future of Human Spaceflight Beckman Auditorium
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	FREE PUBLIC PANEL: Beckman Auditorium The Future of Human Spaceflight

Wednesday, April 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar An inverse spectral problem for Hankel operators Alexander Pushnitski, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, King's College London,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar Some Hurewicz-like tests on the product of two Polish spaces Rafael Zamora, Mathematics, University of Paris,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Nearby Galaxies: Star Formation in Your Neighborhood Daniela Calzetti, UMass,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Conformal Bootstrap Near the Lightcone, and Universality of Long-Distance AdS Physics Liam Fitzpatrick, Stanford University,

Thursday, April 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Determination of quadratic forms by their representation numbers Vinayak Vatsal, Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces Harold Hwang, Professor of Applied Physics, Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar p-adic distribution of period integrals for unitary groups Eric Urban, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Columbia,

Friday, April 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials Noppadol Mekareeya, CERN,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era Elisabeth Krause, Post-doctoral Researcher, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Framed instantons and Khovanov homology Christopher Scaduto, Grad Student, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, April 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Polynomials on Products Frank de Zeeuw, Mathematics, EPFL, Lausanne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions Marcel Franz, Professor, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Nick Hutzler, Harvard University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The distribution of metals in the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium Neil Crighton, Swinburne,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Free Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes Using Space Observations Dr. Andrea Donnellan, Principal Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Tuesday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New signs of naturalness Nathaniel Craig, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Submillimeter Perspective on Cosmic Star Formation Dr. Caitlin Casey, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Macromolecular Translocation Through Nanopores Murugappan Muthukumar, Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,

Wednesday, April 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Function approximation on unstructured data Hrushikesh Mhaskar, Visiting Associate, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolutionury Sun Kwok, Univ of Hong Kong,

Thursday, April 17
9:30 am - 5:30 pm	Dark Matter in Southern California (DaMaSC) Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) TBA

Friday, April 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Jennifer Lin, University of Chicago,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms Guillaume Bossard, Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,

Monday, April 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The mean-field limit of Bosons in the Heisenberg picture Antti Knowles, Mathematics, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Non-commutative strict higher C*-categories Paolo Bertozzini, Mathematics, Thammasat University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent BICEP-2 results Grant Teply, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Influence of Symmetry on Quantum Hall States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene Ben Feldman, Postdoc, Princeton University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies Karin Sandstrom, Arizona,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Statistical Learning and Optimization Based on Comparative Judgements Robert Nowak, McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Tuesday, April 22
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 TBD Debbie Leung, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Three Dimensional Milky Way Galaxy Dr. Bob Benjamin, Univ. of Wisconsin - Whitewater,

Wednesday, April 23
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar Random partitions and weak containment of the Bernoulli shift (after Abert and Weiss) Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Y Dwarfs and the Field Substellar Mass Function Davy Kirkpatrick, IPAC/Clatech,

Thursday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) A Quiet Revolution in Optical Microscopy Steven Chu, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate , Physics Department, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Albanese quotients of Picard modular surfaces, and rational points Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Mathematics, University Lille 1,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmic clues for dark matter Kathryn Zurek, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,

Friday, April 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Guilherme Pimentel, Princeton University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Update after AMS: implications on Dark Matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources Ilias Cholis, Research Associate, Astrophysics, FNAL,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A diagrammatic categorification of a Clifford algebra via contact topology Yin Tian, Mathematics, USC,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Distinguishing topologically and smoothly doubly slice knots Jeffrey Meier, Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,

Monday, April 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar "Green kernels for Schrödinger equations" Ari Laptev, Professor, Mathematics, Imperial College London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Strongly-Interacting Supersymmetry: Theoretical Motivations and Phenomenology Lauren Pearce, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Incidences, Polynomial Partitioning, and Hilbert Polynomials Adam Sheffer, Tel Aviv University, Mathematics, Tel Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Phase transitions and Majorana bound states in engineered topological superconductors Aaron Finck, Postdoc, UIUC,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Multidimensional parameter space, the final frontier Ciro Donalek, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The orbits of the Earth and Planets and Their Relation to the Celestial Reference Frame Bill Folkner, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Stella Ofner, Yale Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) What Color are Atmospheric Aerosols? Development of a Novel UV-Vis Aerosol Absorption Spectrophotometer Geoffrey D. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia,

Wednesday, April 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Universality and regularity of the integration operator Vassilis Nestoridis, Professor, Mathematics, University of Athens,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Pre-Supernova Evolution of Massive Stars Nathan Smith, Arizona,

Thursday, May 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Open compact subgroups of SO_{2n+1}(F) Pei-Yu Tsai, OLGA TAUSSKY-JOHN TODD INSTRUCTOR, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED: Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Measurement of attosecond electron tunnel ionization times Hadas Soifer, Weizmann Institute,

Friday, May 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifoulds Sungjay Lee, University of Chicago,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 T-duality and scattering of stringy states Jnan Maharana, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects Ken Chen, IAU-Gruber Fellow, Astronomy and Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Geometry and topology of finite volume, bounded negatively curved manifolds Yunhui Wu, Professor, Mathematics, Rice University,

Monday, May 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity and a naturally light dilaton Prateek Agrawal, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D Fiona Burnell, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater John Grotzinger, Professor of Geology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook,

Tuesday, May 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Search for Young Planets Prof. Russel White, Georgia State Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Excitonic Dynamics in Conjugated Molecular Materials Peter J. Rossky, Marvin K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Introduction to categorification Mikhail Khovanov, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium TBA Mikhai Khovanov, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia,

Wednesday, May 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the functional analysis of quantum variables Edward Effros, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar Every action of a non-amenable group is the factor of a small action Brandon Seward, Grad Student, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dark Matter Dymanics Tom Abel, Stanford,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Sarah E. Reisman - From Nature to the Pharmacy: The Chemistry Behind Modern Medicines Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Controlling superconductivity with light Alessandra Lanzara, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Heegner cycles and p-adic L-functions Francesc Castella, Dr., Mathematics, UCLA,

Friday, May 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unitarity and crossing symmetry in the S Matrix of large N Chern Simons theory with fundamental matter Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters Michael Fall, Astronomer w/tenure, Space Telescope Science Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Categorification at a prime root of unity Mikhail Khovanov, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Heegaard Floer theory and L-space knots Faramarz Vafaee, Professor, Mathematics, Michigan State University,

Monday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Manipulating single electrons in silicon for quantum computing Michael Lilly, Scientist, The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar TBA Mira Peterka, Mathematics, University of Kansas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Techniques for difficult LHC signatures Matthew Buckley, Rutgers University,

Tuesday, May 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings Steven E. Wheeler, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Laura Perez, NRAO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black holes, star products and entanglement Monica Guica, University of Pennsylvania,

Wednesday, May 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Validity of spin wave theory for the quantum Heisenberg model Robert Seiringer, Mathematics, IST Austria,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, I Andy Zucker, Grad Student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Greenstein Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Hunt for Millisecond Pulsar Vicki Kaspi, McGill,

Thursday, May 15
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, II Andy , Zucker, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture 32nd Annual Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture Avi Wigderson, Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Explorations in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine Shamit Kachru, Professor of Physics, Stanford University,

Friday, May 16
9:00 am - Saturday 5:30 pm	Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology Workshop Keck Center
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 I-Love-Q Nico Yunes, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Montana State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Knotting and Unknotting Surfaces Nathan Sunukjian, Instructor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Stony Brook University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems Tony Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular nad Optical Physics (ITAMP), Harvard University,

Monday, May 19
8:15 am - 12:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Multi-Functional Energy Projecting Systems for Planetary Exploration
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lessons in Near-Field Cosmology from Simulating the Local Group Shea Garrison-Kimmel, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Banach Space Projections and Petrov-Galerkin Estimates Ari Stern, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,

Tuesday, May 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Symmetry-Protected Topological Entanglement Iman Marvian, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium HSTPROMO: Local Group Dynamics from HST Proper Motions Dr. Roeland van der Marel, STScI,

Wednesday, May 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar The Pinned Cardinal of Analytic Equivalence Relations William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Rest-frame Optical Spectra: A Window into Galaxy Formation at z~2 Alice Shapley, UCLA,

Thursday, May 22
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A Morse-Bott approach to Pin(2)-monopole Floer homology Francesco Lin, Grad Student, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA David Geraghty, Mathematics, Boston College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System Kevin Hand, Deputy Chief Scientist, Solar System Exploration, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Patching and the p-adic local Langlands Correspondence David Geraghty, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Boston College,

Friday, May 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Bootstrapping Conformal Field Theories David Simmons-Duffin, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase ISM Blakesley Burkhart, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Plane Floer Homology and the Knot Concordance Group Aliakbar Daemi, Grad Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Transfer-matrix treatment of surface disorder in topological insulator Kun Woo Kim, Graduate Student, Condensed Matter Theory - Refael Group, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Rapid Mixing of Quantum Local Dissipative Systems Angelo Lucia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Joe Silk, Johns Hopkins Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring the Bio-Nano Interface: Integrating Live Cells with Nanosensors Bianxiao Cui, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar A positive proportion of plane cubics fail the Hasse principle Manjul Bhargava, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University visiting Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium IZI: Inferring Metallicities and Ionization Parameters with Bayesian Statistics Guillermo Blanc, Carnegie,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Resiliency of the Power Grid Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Long Space Age: An Economic History of American Space Exploration Alexander MacDonald, Executive Staff Specialist, Civil and Commercial Space Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 28
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar A model-theoretic portrait of a family of countably universal graphs Rehana Patel, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Olin College of Engineering,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The chemistry of planet formation Karin Oberg, Harvard,

Thursday, May 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On the image of complex conjugation in certain Galois representations Anna Caraiani, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of our Galaxy Andrea Ghez, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,

Friday, May 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 QCD in the Veneziano Limit Elias Kiritsis, University of Crete,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Design of 3D printed mathematical art Henry Segerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Oklahoma State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Structure on the set of triangulations Henry Segerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Oklahoma State University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Measuring the pseudo-spin space of hydrogenated graphene Thomas Szkopek, Associate Professor , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University,

Monday, June 2
8:00 am - 12:00 pm	The Keck Institute for Space Studies presents a short course on: Probing the Interior of Venus South Mudd 365
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Infinite gap sets and Lieb-Thirring bounds Jacob Christiansen, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Lund University, Sweden,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Most hyperelliptic curves over Q have no rational points Manjul Bhargava, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University visiting Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar CMV Matrices with Super Exponentially Decaying Verblunsky Coefficients Maxim Zinchenko, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of New Mexico,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Investigating Neutron Star Mergers Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum Tony Piro, Caltech,

Tuesday, June 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 POSTPONED until June 10, 2014
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Showing elliptic curves have rational points (without actually finding them) Christopher Skinner, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Showing elliptic curves have rational points (without actually finding them) Christopher Skinner, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton, visiting Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy and THz Coherent Control Keith A. Nelson, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies presents an open lecture: Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New Frontiers of Planetary Seismology Philippe Lognonné, Professor, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Université Paris Diderot-Sorbonne Paris Cité, France,

Wednesday, June 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Studying disc-jet coupling at Eddington rates: an ultraluminous microquasar in M31 James Miller-Jones, Curtin,

Thursday, June 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Geometry of Numbers and Arithmetic Statistics Manjul Bhargava, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University visiting Caltech,

Friday, June 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exact solutions of 2d supersymmetric gauge theories Abhijit Gadde, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quasiparticle Coherence, Collective Modes, and Competing Order in Cuprate Superconductors James Hinton, Graduate Student, Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science, University of CA - Berkeley/ LBNL,

Tuesday, June 10
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 NOTE TIME CHANGE Quantum-proof extractors via operator space theory Omar Fawzi, ETH, Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A New Exploration of the Inner Milky Way Dr. Dante Minniti, Pontifica Univ. Catolica de Chile,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmology with gravitational-wave detection Chiara Caprini, CEA Saclay,

Friday, June 13
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 TBD Torsten Karzig, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory, Caltech,