Friday, January 4
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Topic to be Announced Richard O'Shaughnessy, Research Associate, Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee,

Monday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 From yeV to TeV: Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment at the FRM-II Reactor Doug Beck, University of Illinois,

Tuesday, January 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Partial-indistinguishability obfuscation using braids Stephen Jordan, NIST,

Wednesday, January 9
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Harvey B. Newman: Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Promise of Urban Science Steven E. Koonin, Director, NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), NYU,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Science and the New Space Race: Opportunities and Obstacles Beckman Auditorium

Friday, January 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BPS spectrum, wall crossing and quantum dilogarithm identity Dan Xie, Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Sodium Absorption as a Tracer of Dust Extinction, and much more, using SDSS Dovi Poznanski, Tel Aviv University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Tidal disruption by spinning supermassive black holes Mike Kesden, Postdoc, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University,

Monday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Partially Interacting Dark Matter Lisa Randall, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium SLoWPoKES: A Cool Stars Resource for Constraining Binary Formation Theory and Testing Fundamental Properties Saurav Dhital, Boston University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Molecular design - from proteins to networks, coupling computation and experiment Tanja Kortemme, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA David Weinberg, Prof., Ohio State University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 The Triangulation Problem from Computer Vision Rekha Thomas, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

Tuesday, January 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 RASICAM: The Radiometric All-Sky Infrared CAMera at Cerro Tololo, Chile Peter Lewis, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Joint Chemical Physics / Biochemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "Computationally Driven Drug Discovery: Theory and Practice" Richard A. Friesner, Professor of Chemistry, Co-Founder Schrödinger LLC, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Julie McEnery, GSFC/Maryland,

Thursday, January 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University,

Friday, January 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exploring curved Superspace Guido Festuccia, Institute for Advanced Study,

Tuesday, January 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Dark Matter Detected in the Galactic Center? Prof. Kevork Abazajian, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Supermassive pairs hiding in the cosmos Sarah Burke-Spolaor, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 More than LESS: First results from the ALMA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South Alexander Karim, Durham University,

Wednesday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Are planetary systems flat? Scott Tremaine, IAS Princeton,

Thursday, January 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Do bacteria play tit-for-tat? Dynamics of a public good in bacterial micro-colony. David Bensimon, ENS, Paris,

Friday, January 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter Shamik Banerjee, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Strong-Field Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity Nicolas Yunes, Assistant Professor, Physics, Montana State University,

Monday, January 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Constraining the Supermassive Black Hole Population with Gravitational Waves and Pulsar Timing Arrays Ryan Shannon, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Taking a picture of transcriptional activity along a single chromosome Arjun Raj, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Project X Robert Tschirhart, Fermilab,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Quantifying uncertainty and improving statistical predictions for partially observed turbulent dynamical systems Michal Branicki, Research Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

Tuesday, January 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum computational matter Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory Adam Wasserman, Assistant Professor, Physical/Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University,

Wednesday, January 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Quantifying High-Redshift Star Formation with Gamma-Ray Bursts - Promises and Perils Dan Perley, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Tracy K. Dennison: For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past Beckman Auditorium
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Earnest C. Watson Lecture Beckman Auditorium For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past Tracy K. Dennison, Professor of Social Science History, Caltech,

Thursday, January 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring the Collision of two Black Holes Mark A. Scheel, Caltech,

Friday, February 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Complementarity vs Firewalls: Are there surprising quantum gravity effects near black hole horizons? Donald Marolf, UC Santa Barbara,

Monday, February 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum states of matter and anti-matter in gravitational and centrifugal potentials Valery Nesvizhevsky, Institut Laue-Langevin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Building a Better Robot: Designing Automated Control Systems for Astronomical Instruments Reed L. Riddle, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 A Fresh Look at Active Sets

Tuesday, February 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Device-independent quantum information Velario Scarani, Centre for Quantum Technologies and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Influence of Baryons in Interpreting the Cosmological Model Alyson Brooks, University of Wisconsin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Challenges in searches for binary black holes and black hole-neutron star systems Duncan Brown, Syracuse University,

Wednesday, February 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Quantification of Nonlinearity Norden Huang, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Taiwan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Searches for new physics at CMS in hadronic final states Maurizio Pierini, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing the Unobservable: Tracing Dark Matter Haloes and Galaxy Assembly Genevieve Graves, Princeton,

Thursday, February 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals Judea Pearl, Depts. of Computer Science and Statistics, UCLA,

Friday, February 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Warped Conformal Field Theory Stephane Detournay, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Cosmology 2017: Testing Gravity, Dark Energy, and Neutrinos Eric Linder, Co-Director, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar Annenberg 213 TBD Fernando Brandao, ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Monday, February 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Spitzer's Greatest Hits Mike Werner, JPL/Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Computational Protein Interface Design, Cystic Fibrosis, and HIV Bruce Donald, Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry, Departments of Computer Science and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105

Tuesday, February 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Exponential decay of correlations implies area law Fernando Brandao, ETH Zurich, Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies Charlie Conroy, Prof., UCSC,

Wednesday, February 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing Galaxy Assembly Henry Ferguson, STScI,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Nadia Lapusta: Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics Frans Pretorius, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, February 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 2d TQFT structure of the superconformal indices with outer-automorphism twists Jaewon Song, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Tidal Effects in Double White Dwarf Binaries Francesca Valsecchi, Graduate Student, Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University,

Tuesday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Dusty Universe Unveiled by the Herschel Space Observatory Asantha Cooray, Prof., UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill 370 Development of ultra-low loss acoustic resonator from Superfluid Helium-4 Keith Schwab, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmological Parameters from the Complete ACT Survey Renee Hlozek, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Connecting Protein Dynamics with Catalytic Function from QM/MM Simulations Jiali Gao, L. I. Smith Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,

Wednesday, February 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 107 The Exascale Co-design Center for Materials in Extreme Environments James Belak, Dr., Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observations of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Reionization Era Richard Ellis, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Lecture Beckman Auditorium Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers Jim Bell, Arizona State University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) This Talk is Cancelled, To Be Rescheduled at a Later Date John Grotzinger, Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, Caltech,

Friday, February 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Metal-insulator transition in holography Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Shining Light on the Properties of Dark Matter: Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models Fabio Governato, Research Professor, Astronomy Department, University of Washington,

Monday, February 25
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME/LOCATION** Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Cluster Trees, Near-Neighbor Graphs, and Continuum Percolation Sanjoy Dasgupta, Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT): Latest Developments and Next Steps Gary Sanders, TMT/Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators Ribhu Kaul, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Kentucky,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Probing bacterial cell shape determination by watching the dynamics of synthetic enzymes Ethan Garner, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fundamental Physics with Optically Levitated Objects Asimina Arvanitaki, Stanford University,

Tuesday, February 26
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electrochemistry vs. Battery System Engineering: Deconstructing the Recent Spate of Battery Failures Rob Ferber, Founder, ElectronVault, Inc., Linda Maepa, Founder, ElectronVault, Inc.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Alan Dressler, Dr., Carnegie Observatories,

Wednesday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Bridged Gap: Transients in the Local Universe Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar Annenberg 105 Learning and Optimization Karthik Sridharan, Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,

Thursday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, March 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Twistor Strings for N=8 Supergravity David Skinner, IAS & Cambridge,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Winding strings on Calabi Yau manifolds and closed geodesics Peng Gao, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,

Monday, March 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Faculty Candidate Seminar Annenberg 105 New Systems, Algorithms, and Data Structures for High Availability Siddhartha Sen, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Resonating-valence-bond Trial Wavefunctions (and beyond) for Frustrated Quantum Magnets Kevin Beach, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Understanding the Dark Matter - Baryon Connection Through Disk Galaxy Assembly" Sarah Miller, UC Riverside/Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105

Wednesday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar Faculty Candidate Seminar Annenberg 105 Learning in an Adversarial World, with Connections to Pricing, Hedging and Routing Jacob Abernethy, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploding stars and Cosmic Acceleration: Better Precision in the Infrared Robert Kirshner, Harvard,

Thursday, March 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Lars Hernquist, Prof., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Faculty Candidate Seminar Annenberg 105 Learning with Humans in the Loop Yisong Yue, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum fluctuations: From the Casimir Effect to Quantum Entanglement Israel Klich, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Virginia,

Monday, March 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 General Messenger Higgs Mediation David Shih, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 SmB6: An Ideal Topological Insulator Jing Xia, Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium 'Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback: VLT/Xshooter and HST/COS Observations' Nahum Arav, Virginia Tech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Seismic Interferometry Robert Clayton, Professor of Geophysics and Divisional Academic Officer for Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Gravitational waves and neutrino emissions from compact binary mergers Kenta Kiuchi, University of Kyoto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The James Webb Space Telescope Dr. John Gardner, NASA GSFC,
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Free Public Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus , George Washington University,

Wednesday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Faculty Candidate Seminar Annenberg 105 Fully Homomorphic Encryption Zvika Brakerski, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Massive Stars Across the Cosmos: Engines, Lighthouses, and Laboratories Emily Levesque, Univ of Colorado,

Thursday, March 14
9:45 am - Saturday 12:15 pm	Preskill 60th Birthday Conference Beckman Institute Auditorium From Monopoles to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Friday, March 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Probing the Large Scale Anisotropies of the Universe from the CMB Temperature and Polarization Data Grigor Aslanyan, Research Fellow, Physics, University of Auckland, New Zealand,

Monday, March 18
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium ‘How are Spiral Galaxies Fed & Kept Blue' James Binney, Oxford University,

Tuesday, March 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Extracting Science from Surveys of our Galaxy Prof. James Binney, University of Oxford,

Wednesday, March 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Adventures in High Time Resolution Astrophysics Stuart Littlefair, Univ of Sheffield,

Friday, March 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exoplanet Habitability Sara Seager, Professor, Physics and Planetary Science, MIT,

Monday, March 25
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planet-Disk Interaction: A Classical Problem in the New Era Helps to Find Young Planets in Birth Zhaohuan Zhu, Princeton,

Tuesday, March 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Norm Murray, CITA,

Wednesday, March 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Detecting the First Stars at Redshift 20: Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv,

Friday, March 29
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Looking Forward: Binaries and their Planets Kaitlin Kratter, Hubble Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder,