Monday, March 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Decoherence as a way to measure extremely soft collisions with low-mass dark matter Jess Reidel, Perimeter Institute,

Tuesday, March 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Women's History Month Event JPL, von Karman Auditorium Panel: Creating an Organization Where Both Men and Women can Thrive Susan Murphy, Author and Management Consultant, Beverley McKeon, GALCIT Associate Director, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, Robert Papppalardo, EUROPA Project Scientist, JPL, Serina Diniega, Scientist/System Engineer, JPL, Cinzia Zuffada, Moderator of the Panel and Associate Chief Scientist , JPL,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Crellin 151 A Priori Gas Phase Kinetics and the Foundations of Chemical Modeling Dr. Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne National Laboratory,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Reverse Engineering Supernovae Dan Milisavljevic, Center for Asirophysics, Harvard University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Where are the branches in a many-body wavefunction? Jess Riedel, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Hidden sectors: a window on the dark universe Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium "Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in an Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys" Prof. Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 1 of 2) Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, March 30
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Combinatorics of F_1 Koen Thas, Professor, Mathematics, Ghent University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galaxy Death and the Role of "Red Geysers" Kevin Bundy, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar F_1-Schemes, zeta functions and automorphisms Koen Thas, Professor, Mathematics, Ghent University,

Thursday, March 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Optical Tweezers: Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time Steven Block, S.W. Ascherman Professor of the Sciences, Stanford University,

Friday, April 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A stereoscopic look into the bulk Lampros Lamprou, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Dark Matter in the Cosmic Context Katherine Mack, DECRA Fellow, Astro Group, School of Physics, University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Revealing the Dirac fluid in graphene Andy Lucas, Graduate Student, Subir Sachdev's group, Harvard University,

Monday, April 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Z2 solutions to the Strong CP problem Anson Hook, Stanford University,

Tuesday, April 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar Geometry, Analysis and Topology of Feynman Amplitudes Emad Nasrollahpoursammi, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Percolation and invariant random subgroups Yair Hartman, Mathematics, Northwestern University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres Hannes Bernien, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Flavor Physics and CP Violation as Probes for New Physics Effects at the High-Luminosity B Factory Experiment Belle 2 Markus Rohrken, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Towards simple, robust and approximately optimal auctions (part 2 of 2) Hu Fu, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Charles Badenes, Univ. of Pittsburgh,

Wednesday, April 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Energy of Heavy Atoms: The Leading Correction Heinz siedentop, Professor of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, LMU Munich,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Feynman Integrals, Associated Arrangements and Their Motives Ozgur Ceyhan, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity." Rachel Bean, Cornell,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Getting Beyond a Blind Date with Science Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 7
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Physics at SNOLAB Art McDonald, SNOlab,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Memorial Service for Charlie Barnes Athenaeum
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	CD3 Seminar Off Campus Data Science: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Beyond Padhraic Smyth, Director, UCI Data Science Initiative, Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hodge classes on products of quaternionic Shimura varieties Kartik Prasanna, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture: Basic Components of Solid-State Quantum Computing Hardware Charles M. Marcus, Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor, Center for Quantum Devices, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,

Friday, April 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Many Dimensions of the Weak Gravity Conjecture Tom Rudelius, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Quantum Computation Jacob Alex Stark, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Using Quasars and the CMB to Probe Quantum Entanglement Jason Gallicchio, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Harvey Mudd College,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Knot Floer Homology and Khovanov-Rozansky Homology of Singular Links Nathan Dowlin Filip, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, April 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Complex varieties with infinite Chow groups modulo 2 Burt Totaro, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New ideas for dark matter detection Kathryn Zurek, LBNL,

Tuesday, April 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Graduate Student Seminar TBA William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum thermodynamics for very small machines Stephanie Wehner, QuTech, University of Delft,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Search, discovery and measurements of the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel at CMS Joshua Bendavid, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Characterizing Habitable Planets with Extreme Adaptive Optics: The Road from MagAO to the GMT Dr. Jared Males, Univ. of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Conservation Profiles, Functional Enrichment, and the Tree of Life Benny Chor, School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University,

Wednesday, April 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Conservation laws for integrable PDE Rowan Killip, Mathematics, UCLA,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Asymptotic symmetries and soft theorems Vyacheslav Lysov, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Inaugural Neugebauer Lecture Marcia Rieke, Regent's Professor of Astronomy, Univ. of Arizona,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Convergence of majority dynamics Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor, Economics/Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 14
10:00 am - 11:00 am	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) A new model of stars David Hogg, Professor of Physics and Data Science at New York University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Internal Structure of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission Maria Zuber, E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Vice President for Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Friday, April 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Shape dependence of entanglement Hamiltonians and the averaged null energy condition Thomas Faulkner, UIUC,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Formation of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters Laura Sales, Assistant Professor, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, U.C. Riverside,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Teichmuller dynamics and Hodge theory Simion Filip, Graduate Student, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Spectroscopic studies of layered iridium oxides Alberto de la Torre, Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomy from the Bottom of the Earth: Telescopes at the South Pole Abigail Crites, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Caltech,

Monday, April 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Quantum representations and higher-rank Prym varieties Johan Martens, Lecturer and Chancellor Fellow, Mathematics, University of Edinburgh,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Deep Underground Xenon Observatory in China: the PandaX Experiment Jianglai Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,

Tuesday, April 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Spectral Theory of Dynamical Systems Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Out-of-time ordered correlation functions Beni Yoshida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The microstructure of spacetime and classification of superparticles Veeravalli Varadarajan, Professor of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Gaseous Halo of the Milky Way: A Close-up View of Galactic Inflow and Outflow Dr. Andrew Fox, STScI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosols Viewed Through Analytical Chemistry Giuseppe Petrucci, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont,

Wednesday, April 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) On the hunt for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in binary systems Evan , Goetz, PMA - LIGO, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Dissipative transport in the localization regime Jeffrey Schenker, Mathematics, Michigan State,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The colored Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of pretzel knots Christine Lee, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Probing the Hierarchical Buildup and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies" David Nidever, LSST Tucson,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	CANCELED: Nicolas Wey-Gomez - What Columbus Discovered Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Boundary cohomology of Shimura varieties Benoit Stroh, Mathematics Research Fellow, Mathematics, Institut Galilée Université Paris 13,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Antineutrino reactor monitoring and applications to nuclear non-proliferation safeguards Patrick Huber, Associate Professor of Physics, Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Tech,

Friday, April 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Entanglement and nonlocality in quantum gravity Will Donnelly, UCSB,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Cosmology beyond the power spectrum and how to keep it simple Marcel Schmittfull, Postdoctoral Fellow, Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP), U.C. Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Sam Ballas, RTG Visiting Assistant Present, Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Atom waveguide QED for efficient multiphoton sources Alejandro González-Tudela, Postdoctoral Scholar, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Finite time blowup for semilinear wave equations Terry Tao, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Harmonic maps and heat flows on hyperbolic spaces Marius Lemm, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar A new proof of the decomposition theorem Brad Drew, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Inflatable Dark Matter and the Diphoton Resonance: New Phenomenology with a Simple Lagrangian Sam McDermott, SUNY Stony Brook,

Tuesday, April 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Eigenvalue Attraction and Disordered Hamiltonian Density of States Ramis Movassagh, IBM,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave test masses Garrett Cole, President CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC, CRYSTALLINE MIRROR SOLUTIONS LLC,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Continuous tensor networks for quantum fields: Scale invariance and loss of information along the RG flow Guifre Vidal, Perimeter Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar The complexity of the classification problem for multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick space Michael Hartz, Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Path to New Physics Discovery at the LHC Si Xie, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 1 of 2) Anand Kumar Narayanan, Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium How Can Software Promote Inquiry? Prof. Matt Turk, Univ. of Illinois,

Wednesday, April 27
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar TBA Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Some C*-algebras which are coronas of non-C*-Banach algebras. Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Guaranteed Non-convex Learning Algorithms through Tensor Decomposition Annenberg 105 Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Anima Anandkumar, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, U.C. Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology Ryan Foley, Univ. of Illinois,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Representations of multiplier algebras of Nevanlinna-Pick spaces Michael Hartz, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, University of Waterlook,

Thursday, April 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) String Theory and the CMB Liam McAllister, Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Lubin-Tate Deformation Spaces and $(\phi,\Gamma)$-Modules Anne Carter, Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,

Friday, April 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Superconducting coherent caloritronics Francesco Giazotto, NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze, CNR & Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Expanding the landscape of N=2 Super-conformal field theories. Mario Martone, University of Cincinnati,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Randomness of Fractional Parts and Fourier Series Zachary Chase, Undergraduate Student, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Gravitational Lensing of the Transient Sky Liang Dai, NASA Einstein Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 A Posteriori Error Estimation Techniques for Finite Element Methods Professor Zhiqiang Cai, Purdue University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar On Hamiltonian Gromov-Witten theory for symplectic reductions Rui Wang, Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Spectroscopic signatures of Weyl semimetals beyond photoemission Stefanos Kourtis, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton,

Monday, May 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Reading seminar on: Computational and descriptive complexity Random graphs and 0-1 laws Martino Lupini, Harry Bateman Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Koszul Rings and DG Algebras Adam Bocher, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A careful comparison between collider and direct WIMP searches Francesco D'Eramo, UC Santa Cruz,

Tuesday, May 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar An Overview of Generalized Hat Problems Connor Meehan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Terahertz Driven Linear Acceleration and X-ray Sources Franz X. Kartner, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Lecture 1: Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 1 Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 2 of 2) Anand Kumar Narayanan, Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar - CANCELLED The spectral theory of multiboundary wormholes Shaun Maguire, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Actions of Amenable Groups on the Cantor Set and the Classification of their Crossed Products David Kerr, Mathematics Department, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Biard Lecture Jo Bovy, Univ of Toronto,

Thursday, May 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nambu-Goldstone bosons, dark pions, and effective operators Hitoshi Murayama, UC Berkeley and Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) When a Symmetry Breaks Hitoshi Murayama, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute for the Physics and Math of the Universe (IPMU), Tokyo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Wild symbols in local class field theory Michiel Kosters, Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,

Friday, May 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 Phonons and rotons in liquid helium Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars Nevin Weinberg, Assistant Professor , Physics, MIT,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Unsmoothable group actions on one-manifolds Thomas Koberda, Mathematics, Univeristy of Virginia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Lecture 2: Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2 Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics & Applied Math, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2 Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics & Applied Math, Yale University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Jordan Greenblatt, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, May 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 De Sitter Wavefunctionals and the Resummation of Time Matthew Baumgart, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Segre classes of monomial schemes and Segre zeta functions Paolo Aluffi, Mathematics, Florida State University,

Tuesday, May 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar Algebraic Theories and Duality Ronnie Chen, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar An invariant set-theoretic approach to "no analytic mad families Asger Törnquist, Mathematics, University of Copenhagen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Developing experiments to visualize the dynamics of biomolecular recognition and binding Andrei Tokmakoff, Henry G. Dale Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Lecture 3: New Results on Bounded, Complete Minimal Surfaces Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics & Applied Math, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami, CfA,

Wednesday, May 11
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Geometric picture for scattering amplitudes Jaroslav Trnka, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition Jonathan Fortney, UC Santa Cruz,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Thomas Miller - Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Proteins Get Where They're Supposed to Go in Cells Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers Ana Maria Rey, Fellow of JILA, NIST and Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, JILA,

Friday, May 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 4D N=1 Superconformal Bootstrap Andreas Stergiou, Yale University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery Wen-fai Fong, Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Steward Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar How not to prove the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture David Gay, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Georgia,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars Jackie Villadsen, Graduate Student, Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, May 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Probing extended Higgs sector in the intensity and energy frontiers Chien-Yi Chen, University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute,

Tuesday, May 17
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	SoCal Grad Strings and Fields East Bridge 114
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Thin-film coatings for use in future gravitational wave detectors Peter Murray, IGR, University of Glasgow ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation Prof. Jorge Moreno, Cal Poly Pomona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Group IV two-dimensional materials: Novel electronic and structural properties Angel Rubio, Professor and Director, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany,

Wednesday, May 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Indirect Coulomb Energy with Gradient Correction Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Vector Bundles for "Matrix Algebras Converge to the Sphere" Marc Rieffel, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Origins and Implications of Turbulence in Galaxies Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard,

Thursday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Cycles in the de Rham cohomology of abelian varieties over number fields Yunqing Tang, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Physics of Information Fernando Brandao, Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Division, Caltech,

Friday, May 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chaos and the growth of operators Dan Roberts, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Distribution of Discriminants of Polynomials with Coefficients in a Finite Field Michael Seaman, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Cosmological Tests of Gravity Come of Age Tessa Baker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Univ of Oxford and Univ of Pennsylvania,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar On Thurston's Euler class one conjecture Mehdi Yazdi, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems Michael Kolodrubetz, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley,

Monday, May 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Results from Ice Cube Carlos Delgado, MIT,

Tuesday, May 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar TBA Brian Hwang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Aomawa Shields, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Relatively Few Rational Points Barry Charles Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Ronald G. Blom, Principal Scientist (Retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Greenstein Lecture: Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology Lars Bildsten, UC Santa Barbara,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Distinct perpendicular bisectors Ben Lund, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Rutgers,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Paul Rothemund - DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 26
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Ultrafilters and a problem of Ellis Andy Zucker, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Diophantine Stability Barry Mazur, Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits Daniel Lidar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, USC,

Friday, May 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane Wenbin Yan, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Renormalized Volume Andrew Waldron, UC Davis,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations Macarena Lagos, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Imperial College London,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Yang Huang,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus TBA Yifeng Yu, Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus TBA Joel Tropp, Professor, Applied & Computational Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, May 30
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Decay of correlations and absence of superfluidity in the disordered Tonks-Girardeau gas Robert Seiringer, IST Austria,

Tuesday, May 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar TBA Artem Chernikov, Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Size-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	"Tides of Gravity" Ramo Auditorium

Wednesday, June 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Lieb-Thirring bounds for infinite gap Jacobi matrices Jacob Christiansen, Mathematics, Lund Univeristy,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Chebyshev and orthogonal polynomials on dynamically defined Cantor sets Maxim Zinchenko, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Universty of New Mexico,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Multiplicative orders and distribution of points on varieties mod p Mei-Chu Chang, Mathematics, UC Riverside,

Friday, June 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Tunneling into Black Hole Microstates Andrea Puhm, UCSB,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Is Hierarchical Merging Broken? Charles Steinhardt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, IPAC, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Strongly symplectic fillability of contact torus bundles Youlin Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Boson condensation and instability in the tensor network representation of topological states Sujeet Shukla, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Josh Zahl, NSF / pure math instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Noncommutative Majorization Principles and Grothendieck's Inequality Steven Heilman, Mathematics, UCLA,

Thursday, June 9
10:00 am - 11:00 am	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Computational Rediscovery of Some Classical Force Laws Mark Stalzer, Principal Computational Scientist, CD3, Caltech,

Friday, June 10
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Black Holes Don't Suck Chiara Mingarelli, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Scholar in Astrophysics, Caltech,