Thursday, January 2
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Spin Transport and Majorana Fermions: Exploiting Spin-Orbit Coupling in Semiconductor Nanowires and Topological Insulators Vlad Pribiag, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology,

Monday, January 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Jets without Jets Jesse Thaler, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Observation of Floquet-Bloch States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator Nuh Gedik, Professor, MIT,

Tuesday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Is the simplest chemical reaction really so simple? Richard N. Zare, Marguerite Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The evolution of obscured accretion probed by deep and hard X-ray surveys Andrea Comastri, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna,

Thursday, January 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Birth, Care, and Feeding of Cat States in Circuit QED: Quantum Jumps of Photon Parity Robert Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Yale University,

Friday, January 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Geometry of Supersymmetric Partition Functions Thomas Dumitrescu, Princeton,

Monday, January 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Geometry and Physics seminar Lauritsen 469 Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4 Clifford Taubes, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Imaging Current in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators Katja Nowack, Postdoc, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nucleosynthesis, Neff, and Neutrino Mass Implications from Dark Radiation Evan Grohs, UC San Diego,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Tracing the growth history of the active black hole population with the black hole mass function Andreas Schulze, Kavli IPMU,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Tracking Influence in Dynamic Social Networks Rebecca Willett, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Tuesday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploiting Energetic and Spatial Structure in Quantum Chemistry: Foundations for a New Paradigm Eric Neuscamman, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Close Major-Merger Pairs Since z = 1: Evolution of Merger Rate & sSfr Enhancement Dr. Kevin Xu, IPAC, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reverse engineering galaxies Simon Lilly, ETH, Zurith,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Exploring Mission Concepts with the JPL Innovation Foundry A-Team Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) John Ziemer, Concept Innovation Methods Chief, Innovation Foundry, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Jean E. Ensminger - Aiding and Abetting a Culture of Corruption Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Probing Dark Matter with the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large-Scale Structure Cora Dvorkin, Postdoctoral Member, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Photonic generation of ultrastable microwave signals Scott Diddams, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),

Friday, January 17
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Characterizing Anisotropy in the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing Arrays Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Graduate Student, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham,

Tuesday, January 21
2:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 Compactness theorems for sequence of bounded energy SL(2;C) connections in dimensions 3 and 4 Clifford Taubes, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Excitons in Organic Semiconductors: Elucidating the Mechanism of Singlet Fission Timothy C. Berkelbach, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Symmetry Protected Topological Phases: Prediction, Construction, and Classification Xie Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Measuring the neutron-star equation of state with gravitational waves from binary inspiral John Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

Wednesday, January 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Extra-solar planetary system formation and evolution in the golden age of high contrast imaging Dimitri Mawet, ESO,

Thursday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Reconstructing regulatory circuits: lessons from immune cells Aviv Regev, Associate Professor, HHMI and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases Martin Zwierlein, Silverman Family Career Development Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, January 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Broken Symmetry Julian Sonner, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Binary inspiral with extreme mass ratios John Friedman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellog Seminar Lauritsen Library Status of the Reactor Neutrino Anomaly Gerry Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Monday, January 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Manipulating microwave photons in complex circuits David Schuster, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large-Scale Structures Leonardo Senatore, Stanford,

Tuesday, January 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint IQI/CMP Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Information, Entanglement, and Many-Body Physics Fernando Brandao, Lecturer, University College London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Tony Pieo, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantum Effects and Coherent Dynamics in Biological and Biomimetic Systems Gregory S. Engel, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, January 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Live Fast Die Young: The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death Selma de Mink, CIT/Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Topology, symmetry, and edge states in graphene heterostructures Andrea Young, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ali Hajimiri - 1+1=3 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Holistic Circuits Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum thermalization and many-body Anderson localization David Huse, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, January 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 UV Surprises in supergravity Zvi Bern, UCLA,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 312 Questioning Λ: where can we go? Miguel Zumalacárregui, Research Associate, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Annenberg 213 Extracting hidden structure from data: Robust Subspace Clustering and Phase Retrieval Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,

Monday, February 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Microstructure Based Laser-Driven Particle Accelerators Joel England, SLAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 From "Order By Disorder" to Emergent Electrodynamics in Geometrically Frustrated Pyrochlore Magnets Kate Ross, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST/Johns Hopkins University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Measurement of the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with Bolocam Jack Sayers, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Nonlinear Waves from Beaches to Photonics Mark Ablowitz, Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Tuesday, February 4
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics-Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Watching dynamics: from patchy colloids to nanoscale biomolecules Qian Chen, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Device engineering with quantum and/or artificial materials Yuki Sato, Rowland Junior Fellow, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University,

Wednesday, February 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Instability of Astrophysics Witnessed in the Twentieth Century Martin Harwit, Cornell,

Thursday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring Big Questions on Small scales Eugene Demler, Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, February 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The holography of electric/magnetic duality breaking Oscar Varela, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Scattering coefficients from Monodromies Maria Rodriguez, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Assessing the Role of Stellar Feedback from Small to Large Scales Laura Lopez, Pappalardo Fellow in Physics and NASA Einstein Fellow, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research, MIT,

Monday, February 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Thin film interference in ultra-thin layers: color coatings, tunable absorbers, and anomalous thermal emitters Mikhail Kats, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Toward true topological insulator materials Johnpierre Paglione, Professor, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Neutrino Interactions at MINERvA Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Data-driven articles in astronomy with Authorea Alberto Pepe, Harvard,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Smoke Rings from Smoke Peter Schröder, Professor of Computer Science and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Coherent Excitons, Coherent Spectroscopies Joel Yuen-Zhou, Robert J. Silbey Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Mary Putman, Columbia University,

Wednesday, February 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Ecology of Galaxy Formation Within the "Cosmic Web" Chuck Steidel, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids Professor Frederic G. Gibou, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Super-resolution fluorescence imaging and applications to aggregation-prone proteins in cells Steffen J. Sahl, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Dennis M. Kochmann - Everyone Starts Small: How Metals Learn to Behave Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Photonic topological insulators and pseudomagnetism Mikael C. Rechtsman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars John Grotzinger, Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology, Caltech,

Friday, February 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum simulation using cold atoms and a brighter future Chen-Lung Hung, Postdoc, Quantum Optics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gluons for nothing, gravitons for free... JJ Carrasco, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Beauty and Wonder in Exciton-Polariton Condensates Na Young Kim, Physical Science Research Associate, Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University,

Tuesday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Star Formation, Molecular Gas and Galaxy Dynamics at the Peak of the Galaxy Formation Epoch Dr. Linda Tacconi, MPI fur Ex. Physik,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Ergodicity breaking and entanglement in many-body systems Dmitry Abanin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Color Outside the Lines: The Search for Multijet Physics at the LHC Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 From Force and Torque Sensing To The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator...Using Optomechanical Springs John Davis, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Most Common "Peculiar" Supernova Ryan Foley, Univ of Illinois,

Wednesday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Bringing Dark Matter into Focus Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton,

Thursday, February 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Controlling and Observing Electronic Structure in Artificial Quantum Materials Kyle Shen, Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University,

Friday, February 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Revisiting 3d Mirror Symmetry Peter Koroteev, Perimeter Institute,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Self-force via worldline integration: from extreme mass ratio inspirals to cosmic strings Barry Wardell, Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University,

Monday, February 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Shedding New Light on Sterile Neutrino Cosmology Brian Shuve, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Transport and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene Membranes Jeanie Lau, Professor, UC Riverside,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Molecular gas, AGNs, star formation and galaxy evolution: a local look at galaxies undergoing the transition Katherine Alatalo, IPAC,

Tuesday, February 25
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 Real slices of the moduli space of Higgs bundles Laura Schaposnik, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Organization at the Air-Aqueous Interface: Ions, Lipids, Water, Electric Fields, Lung Lining and Atmospheric Aerosols Heather Allen, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pathology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Pathology, The Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Plasmas Prof. Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, February 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Physical Principles Underlying the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Math-Physics Seminar Jurg Frohlich, ETH Zurich & IAS Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 An Overview of Boundary Integral Methods for the Last 40 Years Professor George C. Hsiao, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The structure and evolution of dark matter halos Andrew Pontzen, UC London,

Thursday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) THE BIARD LECTURE - The Discovery of the Anderson-Higgs Mechanism Philip Anderson, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University,

Friday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Majorana Fermions in Chains of Magnetic Atoms on a superconductor Stevan Nadj-Perge, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Hamiltonian Evolution Equations - Where They Come From, What They Are Good For Analysis Seminar Jurg Frolich, ETH Zurich & IAS Princeton,

Monday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Solving Einstein's Equation Numerically on Manifolds with Arbitrary Spatial Topologies Lee Lindblom, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar On the Drinfeld moduli problem Michael Rapoport, Mathematics, University of Bonn,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Motives of noncommutative tori Yunyi Shen, Mathematics, Florida State University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The unobscured light from dust-obscured galaxies Caitlin Casey, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks Joel Spencer, Computer Science and Mathematics, New York University,

Tuesday, March 4
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Back to the roots of string theory Rutger Boels, Hamburg University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Theory of Single-Molecule Fluorescence and Force Spectroscopy Dr. Attila Szabo, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Isolated Brown Dwarfs at the Exoplanet Mass Boundary Dr. Jacqueline Faherty, DTM - Carnegie Institution,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite Daniel Stern, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Thirty Meter Telescope: How California, Canada, China, India and Japan are Working Together to Build a Next Generation Extremely Large Telescope Gary Sanders, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Towards the theory of local Shimura varieties Michael Rapoport, Mathematics, University of Bonn,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite Daniel Stern, JPL,

Wednesday, March 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar TBA William Yessen, Mathematics, Rice University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Effective dimension in symbolic dynamics Linda Westrick, Mathematics, U. C. Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Non-Commutative Geometry, Non-Associative Geometry and the Standard Model of Particle Physics Shane Farnsworth, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dwarf Galaxies: The Nexus of Dark Matter and Chemical Evolution Evan Kirby, UC Irvine,

Thursday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Graph spectra and diophantine equations Gunther Cornelissen, Mathematics, Univ. of Utrecht,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Touch the Dark Matter Harry Nelson, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, March 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Kazuya Yonekura, Institute for Advanced Study,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Conformal bootstrap: the status of the 3d Ising project Slava Rychkov, CERN,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Magnetized binary neutron star merger simulations on K Kenta Kiuchi, Research Assistant Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Reducible Surgeries and Heegaard Flor Homology Nicolas Zufelt, UT Austin,

Saturday, March 8
9:30 am - 5:30 pm	Southern California Number Theory Day 2014 Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Matt Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology, Elena Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley, Christopher Skinner, Princeton University, Mamjul Bhargava , Princeton University,
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	RTG Conference: Logic in Southern California

Monday, March 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Twisted group algebras and strict deformation quantisation Branimir Cacic, Mathematics, Texas A&M,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Combining Riesz bases Shahaf Nitzan, Mathematics, Kent State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Eavesdropping on the Dark Sound of the Universe Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Caltech & JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 From Quantum Electronics to Light-Matter Interaction with Van der Waal Heterostructures Arindam Ghosh, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Weighing the Giants: Accurate Weak Lensing Mass Measurements for Cosmological Cluster Surveys Anja von der Linden, Stanford,

Tuesday, March 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravitational waves and electromagnetic counter parts of binary neutron star mergers Masaru Shibata, University of Kyoto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Seeing the Invisible: Bioorthogonal Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine Wei Min, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Peter Garnavich, Notre Dame Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning Quentin Berthet, Princeton University,

Wednesday, March 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Kakeya and restriction conjectures Mark Lewko, Mathematics, UCLA & IAS Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters: Insights from Cosmological Simulations Sam Skillman, Stanford/KIPAC,

Thursday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar p-adic L-functions and BSD Chris Skinner, Mathematics, Princeton,

Friday, March 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Reducing Supersymmetry of Two-dimensional Sigma Models Down to N=(0,2) Arkady Vainshtein, Univ of Minnesota,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Eliezer Rabinovici, CERN & The Hebrew University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Quantitative predictions for galaxy formation Andrew Benson, George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Hyperbolic cone metrics on 3-manifolds with boundary Tian Yang, Mathematics, Stanford University,

Monday, March 17
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar A metric in the space of spectral triples Gunther Cornelissen, Mathematics, University of Utrecht,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Rational Curves and Rational Points over Global Function Fields Jason Starr, Mathematics, Stony Brook University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Detection of B-mode Polarization at Degree Scales with BICEP2 Jeffrey Filippini, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Ji-hoon Kim, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The complete one loop RGE of the SM EFT, and its implications for BSM phenomenology Michael Trott, CERN,

Wednesday, March 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Measuring the Cosmic Distance Scale with SDSS-III Daniel Eisenstein, Biard Lecturer, Harvard,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Michael P. Lamb - When Rocks Roll: How Sediment Transport Shapes Planetary Surfaces Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, March 20
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Mike Kelzenberg of Escape Dynamics Mike Kelzenberg, Escape Dynamics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) BICEP2: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales Jamie Bock, Professor of Physics, Caltech and Senior Research Scientist, JPL,

Friday, March 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Yu Nakayama, Caltech & Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,

Monday, March 24
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Atmospheric characterization of the hot Jupiter exoplanet Kepler-13Ab: Hot and shiny Avi Shporer, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Powerful Atomic and Molecular Galactic Winds and Their Cosmological Implications Prof. Sylvain Veilleux, Univ. of Maryland,

Wednesday, March 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Fast Radio Bursts on the Horizon Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Caltech,

Thursday, March 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar An anticyclotomic main conjecture and Heegner points Christopher Skinner, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Friday, March 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The hexagon function bootstrap Lance Dixon, SLAC,