Monday, March 30
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Tropical schemes and the Berkovich analytification Noah Giansiracusa, RTG Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, University of Georgia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Soft Theorems from Effective Field Theory Andrew Larkoski, MIT,

Tuesday, March 31
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Gapped and gapless phases of frustration-free spin-1/2 chains David Gosset, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Optical losses and the optical power requirements in the traditional and the intracavity readout topologies of laser gravitational-wave detectors F. YA. Khalili, Physics, Moscow State University,
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Single mode cavity to avoid parametric instability in laser gravitational wave detector Sergey Vyachanin, Physics, Moscow State University,

Wednesday, April 1
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Dynamics of the homeomorphism group of the Lelek fan Aleksandra Kwiatkowska, Hedrick Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Chemical Signatures of Planet Formation in Gas Rich Disks Edwin Bergin, U. Michigan,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Mars Helicopter Scout MiMi Aung, Autonomous Systems Deputy Division Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Pamela J. Bjorkman - A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System Versus HIV Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Convergence polygons for p-adic differential equati Kiran Kedlaya, Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The CMB and Neutrinos Lyman Page, Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, April 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Generalized Global Symmetries Anton Kapustin, Caltech and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Enhancing Generalized Unitarity Jacob Bourjaily, Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Weak lensing calibrated scaling relations of galaxy groups and poor clusters Maggie Lieu, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Space Research (ASR), University of Birmingham,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A graph TQFT for hat Heegaard Floer homology". Ian Zemke, Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Incidences between points and lines and extremal configuration of lines in Euclidean spaces Noam Solomon, Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Holographic quantum error-correcting codes: Toy models for the bulk/boundary correspondence Fernando Pastawski, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Progress on the Triangular Hilbert Transform Christoph Thiele, Professor, Bonn,

Monday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs Boson as the Origin of Mass and Inflation Hong-Jian He, Tsinghua University,

Tuesday, April 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On Abrikosov lattice solutions of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation Li Chen, Graduate Student, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Invariant random subgroups behaving like normal subgroups Omer Tamuz, Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems Enrique Mallada, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 8
9:00 am - 12:00 pm	Astronomy Workshop - Introduction Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Structure and Pseudo-Randomness in Coding Theory Shachar Lovett, Assistant Professor, CSE, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Data-driven models of stars David Hogg, NYU,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Periods in Perturbative Quantum Field Theory Emad Nasrollahpoursamani, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Selmer ranks of twists of hyperelliptic curves and superelliptic curves Myungjun Yu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Workshop - Conclusions Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Technology Concepts for the Next Generation VLA Sander Weinreb (Caltech) and Tony Beasley (NRAO),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Overconvergent construction of anticyclotomic p-adic L-functions Chan-Ho Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Testing Quantum Systems Umesh Vazirani, Roger A. Strauch Professor of EECS, Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley,

Friday, April 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Heterotic strings and generalised geometry Ruben Minasian, Penn State,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Deformations of superconformal theories Ken Intriligator, UCSD,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Dark Matter Detections in Photons Split by a Million in Energy: Interpretations of X-ray lines and Gamma-ray Bumps Kevork Abazajian, Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Groups presentable by products and an ordering of Thurston geometries by maps of non-zero degree Christoforos Neofytidis, Riley Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Binghamton University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Matter Wave Interferometry in Microgravity - Towards Quantum Sensors in Space Markus Krutzik, Postdoctoral Scholar in Communications Architectures and Research , JPL,

Monday, April 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - RESCHEDULED TO MAY 26 Lauritsen 469 First results from DarkSide-50 Maria Monzani, Stanford,

Tuesday, April 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Nonlinear Linear Systems Analysis Applied to Networked Dynamical Systems Enrique Mallada, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 15
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Alternating knot with unknotting number one Duncan Mccoy, PhD. Student, Mathematics, University of Glasgow,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Active Galaxies in Cosmic X-ray Surveys: The Ecology of Distant AGNs Dave Alexander,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Geometry, Topology, and Modern Classifications of Quantum Matter Wentao (Winston) Fan, Undergraduate, Caltech,

Thursday, April 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Pro-p Iwahori Hecke algebras are Gorenstein Rachel Ollivier, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UBC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Environments of Black Holes - New Understandings from NuSTAR Fiona Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Caltech,

Friday, April 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Yang-Mills-Einstein Theory as a Double Copy Henrik Johansson, NORDITA and Uppsala University,
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Unfolding the color code Alex Kubica, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Entanglement detection by interfering quantum many-body twins Rajibul Islam, Postdoctoral Fellow - Greiner Group, Rubidium Gas Microscopy, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar L-space surgeries on links Yajing Liu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UCLA,

Saturday, April 18
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Southern California Number Theory Day 2015

Monday, April 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The shape of new physics in (semi-)leptonic B decays Rodrigo Alonso de Pablo, UC San Diego,

Tuesday, April 21
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Near-linear constructions of exact unitary 2-designs Debbie Leung, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Coarsening of Particle Systems Professor David Levermore, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland, College Park,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium G4v - An Engineering Approach to Gravitation Carver Mead, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 22
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Every analytic equivalence relation with all Borel classes is a Borel equivalence relation somewhere William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmology with Planck 2015 George Efstahiou, Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The 4th Generator of the Odd K-Theory of 3-Dimensional Noncommutative Tori Viktor Kasatkin, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Interferometry in a strong light Cindy Regal, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On the non-triviality of generalised Heegner cycles modulo p Ashay Burungale, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UCLA,

Friday, April 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Integral geometry and the entropic nature of points and lengths Bartek Czech, Stanford,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Impact of Environment on Galaxy Evolution Stephanie Tonnesen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Memorial Service for Thomas A. Tombrello, Jr., Robert H. Goddard Professor of Physics Athenaeum
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A characterization of virtually embedded subsurfaces in 3-manifolds Yi Liu, Taussky - Todd Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Unfolding the color code Alex Kubica, Graduate Student - Preskill Group,

Monday, April 27
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Turbulent relations Alberto Candel, Mathematics, CSUN,
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Turbulent relations Alberto Candel, Mathematics, Cal State Northridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Drinfeld-Lafforgue-Vinberg degeneration of the stack of G-bundles Simon Schieder, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Precision QCD simulations for the LHC Stefan Hoeche, SLAC,

Tuesday, April 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes John R. Barker, Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The microlocal codimension-three conjecture Kari Vilonen, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. James Lloyd, Cornell,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Charles and Thomas Lauritsen Memorial Lecture Beckman Auditorium The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Daniel J. Levitin,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Charles and Thomas Lauritsen Memorial Lecture: "The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload" Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Turbulent Frontier in Massive Stellar Death Sean Couch, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Scalar Curvature for the Noncommutative 4-Torus and its Functional Relations Farzad Fathizadeh, Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) "In vivo" Multiphoton Imaging of Mouse Brain Chris Xu, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University,

Friday, May 1
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures Zvonimir Vlah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Heegaard Floer contact invariants for positive rational surgery Tom Mark, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules James Douglas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics, ICFO, Barcelona,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Sung Jin Oh, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Monday, May 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent Results from PICO Hugh Lippincott, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Decomposition Theorem and Parity Sheaves Carl Mautner, Mathematics, UC Riverside,

Tuesday, May 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topics in adiabatic quantum computing Tameem Albash, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Yue Shen, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 SESAME- A POSSIBLE SOURCE Of LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST Eliezer Rabinovici, Hebrew University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Microlocal Analysis on Representations, and Applications To Number Theory Akshay Venkatesh, Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,

Wednesday, May 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Spectral Triples and Toeplitz Operators Bruno Iochum, Mathematics, Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Impact of Stellar Feedback on Molecular Clouds Stella Offner, UMass,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Richard Nixon and the American Space Program John M. Logsdon, Professor Emeritus , Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	James J. Bock - Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids Amir Yacoby, Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, May 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Geometric engineering, Mirror symmetry and 6d (1,0) to 4d N=2 Dan Xie, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Electrodynamic Effects of Inflationary Gravitons Richard Woodard, University of Florida,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Cosmic Neutrinos and Large-scale Structure Marilena Loverde, Postdoctoral Fellow, KICP, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Teichmüller space is rigid Kasra Rafi, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system Scott Geraedts, Graduate Student, Condensed Matter Theory, Caltech,

Monday, May 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Models with dilepton + jets final states at the LHC Joshua Berger, SLAC,

Tuesday, May 12
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Using the BayesWave algorithm to detect and characterize binary black hole mergers without waveform templates Meg Millhouse, Physics, Montana State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Estimating outcome probabilities of quantum circuits using quasiprobabilities Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Navigating Space-Time with Ultrafast Exciton Photolithography or Scintillating Near-fields to Follow Dynamic Processes in Molecular Materials Naomi S. Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

Wednesday, May 13
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Almost treeability Robin Tucker-Drob, NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Extragalactic Archeology Charlie Conroy, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Semnar On the structure of the spectrum of small sets Alejandro Morales, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Crossed Product Extensions of Spectral Triples Bruno Iochum, Mathematics, Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,

Thursday, May 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Neutrinos are Everywhere Joseph D. Lykken, Theoretical Physicist, Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Vanishing theorems for mixed Hodge modules and applications Junecue Suh, Assistant Professor, PBSci-Mathematics Department, UC Santa Cruz,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Exploration: The Globe and Beyond Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Friday, May 15
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Effect of Higher Derivatives on the Schwarzschild Solution Kelly Stelle, Imperial College,
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Entanglement entropy and phases of gauge theories Djordje Radicevic, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments Alexey Vlasenko, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UCSD,
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Fields Medalist Stanislav Smirnov The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet from 1920 to the Present Day Stanislav Smirnov, Professor of Mathematics, University of Geneva; St. Petersburg State University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Ryan Mishmash, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

Monday, May 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Single Engineered Donor Atoms with Nuclear and Electron Spin Readout for Quantum Bits David N. Jamieson, Professor of Physics, Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), School of Physics, University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 How well can we test pre-inflationary physics? Matthew Johnson, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Tuesday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Color of Kilonovae: Electromagnetic Signatures of Compact Object Mergers Daniel Kasen, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Carl Melis, UCSD,

Wednesday, May 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Nonabelian Generalized Lax pairs, Post-Lie Algebras and Related Operadic Structures Xiang Ni, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and Their Implications for Accretion Flows, Broad Line Regions, and Winds Niel Brandt, Penn State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar On the structure of the spectrum of small sets Kaave Hosseini, Mathematics, UCSD,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Katherine T. Faber - Watching Paint Dry and Colors Fade: The Intersection of Art and Science Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Galaxy in a new light: Gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes Werner Hofmann, Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, Germany,

Friday, May 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 String-Scale SUSY Breaking: Clues for the Low – l CMB ? Augusto Sagnotti, CERN, Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN-Pisa,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Physics of Radiation-Driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei Daniel Proga, Professor, Department of Physics, UNLV,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Memorial Service for Gerry Neugebauer, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Physics, Emeritus Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Engineering Quantum Matter: From Superfluids to Low-Dimensional Electrons Johannes Pollanen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Eisenstein Group, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Development of an ensemble-based, triggerable single photon source Kate Ferguson, Research School of Physics & Engineering, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Scott Ransom, NRAO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantum Dots – Artificial Atoms, Large Molecules or Small Pieces of Bulk? Insights from Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies Oleg V. Prezhdo, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science, University of Southern California,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 First results from DarkSide-50 Maria Monzani, Stanford,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Caltech OSA Student Chapter & the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science Annenberg 105 X-ray Lasers: From Star Wars to the Table-Top Joseph Nilsen, Physicist, Fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 27
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Menger compacta as projective Fraisse limits with emphasis on dimension one Slawomir Solecki, Professor, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmological Calorimetry: The nature of the intergalactic medium and the photon underproduction crisis Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar When Algebraic Geometry Meets Graph Theory Mohamed Omar, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Harvey Mudd,

Thursday, May 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT,

Friday, May 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Replica-symmetry-breaking instantons in glassy systems Sho Yaida, Duke University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics Donal O'Connell, University of Edinburgh,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Tian Yang, Szego Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Coding with Finite Resources Mario Berta, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Preskill Group, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain Marius Lemm, Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain Nestor Guillen, U Mass Amherst,

Monday, June 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Some D-modules attached to orbits of linear representations of algebraic groups Xinwen Zhu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Constraints to the three body decays of the light stop Jinrui Huang, LANL,

Wednesday, June 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar CANCELED Cristian Popescu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Cancelled Christian Popescu, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,

Thursday, June 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Modular symbols and the arithmetic of cyclotomic fields Romyar Sharifi, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Arizona,

Friday, June 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Conformal Invariance in Momentum Space Adam Bzowski, Leuven University,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Ultracold Molecules in Crystals of Light: A Highly Tunable System for Exploring Novel Materials, Quantum Dynamics, and Quantum Complexity Lincoln Carr, Professor of Physics, Colorado School of Mines,

Monday, June 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Two notions of mirror symmetry for certain K3 surfaces Christopher Lyons, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, CSU Fullerton,

Thursday, June 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On some Tate cycles on Shimura varieties Xinwen Zhu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,