Monday, January 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity Prashant Saraswat, University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar *template Annenberg 213

Tuesday, January 6
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Extracting Progenitor Parameters of Rotating CCSNe via Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Laksh Bashin, Undergraduate, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Verifying entanglement in physical systems Dvir Kafri, JQI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Leontief Exchange Markets Can Solve Multivariate Polynomial Equations, Yielding FIXP and ETR Hardness Ruta Mehta, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, January 7
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	William M. Clemons, Jr. - How Do You Make a Greasy Protein? Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 8
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 265 Towards Neutron Star Multimessenger Astronomy: A Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources in LIGO S6 Data Jax Sanders, Graduate Student, University of Michigan,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Level raising mod 2 and arbitrary 2-Selmer ranks Chao Li, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist's view of vulcanized media Paul Goldbart, Professor and Chair, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Ab initio discovery of energy conversion pathways - theory and applications Lee-Ping Wang, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Eigencurve over the boundary of the weight space Liang Xiao, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Connecticut,

Friday, January 9
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Homology three-spheres and surgery obstructions Tye Lidman, RTG Instructor, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Well-posedness for the Cubic Dirac equation in the critical space Ioan Bejenaru, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics Aaron Weinstein, Graduate Student, Schwab Group, Applied Physics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar The Euler-Maxwell system in 2D Yu Deng, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, January 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nuclei from QCD Martin Savage, University of Washington,

Tuesday, January 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar What is Gauge Theory? Siqi He, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) From h(t) to post-detection science: The gravitational-wave science workflow Madline Wade, Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Searching for intermediate-mass black-hole binaries and measuring the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational-wave detectors Leslie Wade, Teaching Assistant, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Guillermo Blanc, Carnegie Observatories,

Wednesday, January 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Topics in quantum entropy and entanglement Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics and Physics , Mathematics, Princeton University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Advanced LIGO: Adaptive Mode Matching for the Output Mode Cleaner Antonio Perreca, Research Associate, Syracuse University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Gauss-Bonnet theorem and scalar curvature for noncommutative two tori Farzad Fathizadeh, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium [In]efficient Star Formation and the ISM Eve Ostriker, Princeton,

Thursday, January 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Universality in W+jets David A. Kosower, CEA, Saclay,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) The Fermilab Holometer: Operation and RF correlation of twin 40m interferometers Lee McCuller, Graduate Student, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Generic elements in isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces Maciej Malicki, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, Warsaw School of Economics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Riemannian Geometry of the Ising model Gavin Crooks, Physicist Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties in ramified characteristics Kai-Wen Lan, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,

Friday, January 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Infinite N=1 Dualities Jaewon Song, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Close-in Planets: Warm Jupiters, Super-Earths, and Exo-Mercuries Eugene Chiang, Professor, Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science, U.C. Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A dilogarithm identity on the moduli space of curves Feng Luo, Professor, Mathematics, Rutgers University,

Tuesday, January 20
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Laying a foundation for confident transient gravitational wave observation: characterizing the Advanced LIGO instruments Jessica McIver, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Poincare's Work on Topology David Gabai, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continues on Jan 27) Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Poincare's work on Topology David Gabai, Chair, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Wednesday, January 21
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Dirac Type Operators and Lie Groupoids Pedram Hekmati, Mathematics, University of Adelaide,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey Joshua Frieman, Fermilab and U. Chicago,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Julia R. Greer - Size Matters: The Importance of Building Small Things Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture Crellin 151 The evolution of renormalization group theory Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Enhanced Ultraviolet Cancellations in Gravity Theories Zvi Bern, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Family Floer cohomology and mirror symmetry Mohammed Abouzaid, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Searches for Particle Dark Matter Tim Tait, Professor of Physics, Physics, UC Irvine,

Friday, January 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Umbral Moonshine and K3 Surfaces Sarah Harrison, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus A Random Pointwise Ergodic Theorem with Hardy Field Weights Benjamin Krause, Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Superfluid Optomechanics Laura DeLorenzo, Graduate Student, Schwab Group, Applied Physics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Academic Wages, Singularities, Phase Transitions and Pyramid Schemes Robert McCann, Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Monday, January 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture Crellin 151 Embedding theories in quantum chemistry Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the plane Izzet Coskum, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Latest results from Planck Charles Lawrence, JPL,

Tuesday, January 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Seminar Title TBA Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar One-ended subforests and strong treeability Andrew Marks, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation Nicolas DelFosse, University of Sherbrooke,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Visualizing catalytic reactions and light-matter interactions with nanometer-scale resolution Jennifer Dionne, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective Gustavo E. Scuseria, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. David Nataf, ANU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar - piyush2 Annenberg 213 Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continued from Jan 20) Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on surfaces Izzet Coskum, Professor, Mathematics, UIC,

Wednesday, January 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture Crellin 151 Towards an ab initio description of high-temperature superconductivity Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Pushing the Frontiers of Discovery with ALMA Kartik Sheth, NRAO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Entanglement and Geometry Bogdan Stoica, Graduate Student, PMA, Caltech,

Thursday, January 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On a motivic method in Diophantine geometry Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Fellow, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era Heather Knutson, Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech,

Friday, January 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-brane sources Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah, University of Southern California,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Rise and fall of magnetic fields in relativistic astrophysics Jonathan Zrake, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Particle Physics (KIPAC), Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Proper action on Group Manifolds Olivier Guichard, Mathematics, Université de Strasbourg, IRMA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 THE SUNSHOT OPPORTUNITY: Getting to Ubiquitous Solar Minh Le, Director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office, US Department of Energy ,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4 Morten Ring Eskildsen, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame,

Monday, February 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs Interferometry Lance Dixon, SLAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Membrane fluid mechanics: phase separation discloses flow in lipid bilayers Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, Ph.D, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Derived equivalent CY 3-folds from cubic fourfolds John Calabrese, RTG Lovett Instructor, Mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, February 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets Julien Vidal, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris ,

Wednesday, February 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Renormalized volume and pseudo Anosovs Greg McShane, Mathematics, Institut Fourier, France,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Tomography from Entanglement Bogdan Stoica, Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy Carlos R. Baiz, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium What drives the Star Formation History of the Universe? Fabian Walter, MPIA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED - Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Dave Penneys, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	John P. O'Doherty - How the Brain Learns from the Past and Makes Good Decisions for the Future: A Tour of Neural Reinforcement Learning Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Interstellar: A Physicist's Adventures in Hollywood Kip Thorne, The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Distribution of orders in number fields Ramin Takloo-Bighash, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago,

Friday, February 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BIG J Simeon Hellerman, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Thermalization time bounds for Pauli stabilizer Hamiltonians Paul Kristan Temme, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time Frederick Davies, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Flat strips in rank one CAT(0) spaces Russell Ricks, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Seminar Title TBA Alex Iosevich, Professor, Mathematics, University of Rochester,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar The Stability Problem for Extremal Black Holes Stefanos Aretakis, Veblen Research Instructor, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, February 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory Elizabeth Jenkins, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Universal unipotent local systems and Maurer-Cartan systems of algebraic cycles Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 10
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Vacuum Squeezing in a Vacuum Envelope Andrew Wade, Australian National University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological quantum computation with anyons Claire Levaillant, UCSB,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 1 Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics for Quantum Optics and Sensing: Diamond, Si and More Paul Barclay, Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Are children's drawings good for anything? Mehrdad Shahshahani, Professor, School of Mathematics, IPM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravitational Astronomy - Prospects and Challenges a Century after Einstein B Sathyaprakash (Sathya), School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff Universtiy,

Wednesday, February 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral properties of the Fourier restriction operator and applications Julien Sabin, Mathematics, U. Paris Sud Orsay,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Point-curve incidences in the complex plane Joshua Zahl, Pure Math Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Geometry of Entanglement in Multiboundary Wormhole Spacetimes Shaun Maguire, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, February 12
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Invariance of some spectral sequence from symplectic Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology Robert Lipshitz, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED - Number Theory Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level Immanuel Bloch, Professor of Physics, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik,

Friday, February 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BTZ/CFT: Before the Bang Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Quantum Emitters in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Igor Aharonovich, School of Physics and Advanced Materials, University of Technology, Sydney,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Giant Vibrating Spheres in Space: the effects of waves in stars, planets, and supernovae Jim Fuller, DuBridge Fellow, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Thin groups in arithmetic and beyond Elena Fuchs, Asistant Professor, Mathematics, Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Toda Systems, Cluster Characters, and Spectral Networks Harold Williams, Professor, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*) Andreas Wallraff, Professor, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Watson 104 Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits Andreas Wallraff, Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich,

Monday, February 16
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 17
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators Burak Sahinoglu, Universitat Wien,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar What are nice combinatorial sequences? Igor Pak, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation,II William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravity and the unseen sky Sydney Chamberlin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 2 Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Mid-infrared and THz Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs Jérôme Faist, Professor, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich,

Wednesday, February 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Blowup Dynamics in the Keller-Segel Model of Chemotaxis Israel Michael Sigal, Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm	Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar Baxter Lecture Hall Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Dr. Burton Richter, Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus, Physical Sciences, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Radio Astronomy – Past, Present, and Future Sander Weinreb, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Standard Model with Compactified Spatial Dimensions Bartosz Fornal, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Thursday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 A General Framework for High Accuracy Solutions to Energy Gradient Flows from Material Science Models Professor Brian Wetton, Mathematics Department, University of British Colombia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Advanced LIGO: A Prelude to Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy David H. Reitze, Senior Research Associate in LIGO and Executive Director of the LIGO Project, Caltech,

Friday, February 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands Lance Dixon,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Moving Mesh Astrophysics Paul Duffell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, U.C. Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Fibered face theory and entropy for free-by-cyclic groups Eriko Hironaka, Professor, Mathematics, Florida State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Inverse Problems for Quantum Integrable Systems Alvaro Pelayo, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations Shaun Maguire, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Seminar Title TBA Speaker TBA ,

Monday, February 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Hunting for Mixed Stop Decays at the LHC Michael Graesser, LANL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Twisted commutative algebras and related structures Steven Sam, Miller Research Fellow, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, February 24
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics Inaugural Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar The Polynomial Method Adam Sheffer, Harry Bateman Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Naïve entropy of dynamical systems Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill 370 No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum, and whether gravitational wave detectors may help. Hartmut Grote, AEI Hannover,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Generalized Low Rank Models Madeleine Udell, Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University,

Wednesday, February 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics Pun Wai Tong, PhD. Student, Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Star Formation Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Equivariant Verlinde Formula Du Pei, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Thursday, February 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Optically driven quantum solids: emergence without equilibrium Andrea Cavalleri, Professor of Physics, University of Hamburg and University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Divisibility in K-groups and classical conjectures in Number Theory Grzegorz Banaszak, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University,

Friday, February 27
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Studies of Fundamental Interactions of Trapped ^8Li and ^8B Ions Adrian Perez Galvan, Physics, Argonne National Laboratory,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Integrability and the conformal field theory of the Higgs branch Bogdan Stefanski, City University, London,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The Hitchin connection and the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT Jorgen Andersen, Professor, Department of Mathematics, QGM, Aarhus University,

Monday, March 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Rational Connectivity and Analytic Contractibility Morgan Brown, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 R&D studies at ETH Zurich for the CMS EE upgrade Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Mean curvature flow Bruce Kleiner, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Courant Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar - enrique1 Annenberg 213 Enrique Mallada, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Wednesday, March 4
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Geometry and Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Perturbative invariants of Chern-Simons theory on Seifert manifolds Gaetan Borot, MPI, Bonn,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Thurston's asymmetric metric for unusual surfeces Daniele Alessandrini, Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Annenberg 105 Network Design Automation -- Treating Networks like VLSI Chips George Varghese, Microsoft Research,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Subfactors and NCG Dave Penneys, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED - Combinatorics Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite Daniel Stern, JPL,

Thursday, March 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos Francis Halzen, Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center and Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar p-Selmer growth in extensions of degree p Kestutis Cesnavicius, Research Fellow, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Logic Seminar Structurable equivalence relations Ruiyuan-Ronnie Chen, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caaltech,

Friday, March 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands: Constraining the NMHV Ratio Function Matt von Hippel, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Oscillations of Nearly Extremal Black Holes Aaron Zimmerman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics, CITA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Regularity for the Monge-Ampere equation, with applications to the semigeostrophic equations Alessio Figali, Professor and R. L. Moore Chair, Mathematics, University of Texas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015 The Monge-Ampere equation Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Seminar Title TBA Mariusz Mirek, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Wroclaw,

Saturday, March 7
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Logic in Southern California

Monday, March 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cross-order relations from maximal unitarity David , Kosower, CEA, Saclay,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015 The Monge-Ampere equation Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,

Tuesday, March 10
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) A High Frequency Space Interferometer to Extend the Reach of the GW Detector Network Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics, PMA, Caltech,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Andreev's theorem on projective Coxeter polyhedra Gye-Seon Lee, Mathematics, Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Two little results in topology, motivated by quantum computation Gorjan Alagic, University of Copenhagen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar - enrique2 Annenberg 213 Enrique Mallada, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reconstructing the neutron-star equation of state from gravitational-wave observations Benjamin Lackey, Syracuse University,

Wednesday, March 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Noncommutative Geometry, Equivariant Cohomology and Conformal Geometry Raphael Ponge, Visiting Scholar, Mathematics, Seoul National University & UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Eisenstein series, unitary representations, and scattering amplitudes Stephen Miller, Professor and Vice Chair, Mathematics, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015 The Monge-Ampere equation Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dark Matter and Stellar Halos: Formation, Histories and Structure Kathryn Johnston, Columbia,

Friday, March 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Absence of quantum time crystals Haruki Watanabe, UC Berkeley,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: Location change Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Mars Adam Lichtl, Director of Research, SpaceX,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar From one Reeb orbit to two Daniel Gardiner, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	14th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture 2015 The Monge-Ampere equation Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,

Monday, March 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Determinantal representations of hyperbolic polynomials and hyperbolic varieties Cynthia Vinzant, Assistant Profrssor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, March 17
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Logic Seminar TBA Maciej Malicki, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, Warsaw School of Economics,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 TBD Lior Eldar, MIT,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum systems with approximation-robust entanglement Lior Eldar, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Charge dynamics and molecular intermediates of photo-catalytic interfaces Tanja Cuk, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Faculty Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL, University of California, Berkeley,

Friday, March 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Bulk-Boundary Duality, Gauge Invariance, and Precursors Vladimir Rosenhaus, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Promise of Strong-field General Relativity with Black Hole Binaries Deirdre Shoemaker, Professor, School of Physics, Georgia Tech,

Tuesday, March 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Steele 102 Integrated Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces Based on Ensembles of Rare-Earth Ions Erhan Saglamyurek, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Canada,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Efficient CBC parameter estimation and source classification Carl-Johan Haster, Department of Physics, Birmingham,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Operationally-Motivated Uncertainty Relations for Joint Measurability and the Error-Disturbance Tradeoff Volker Schotz, ETH,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Hearing what gravitational wave standard sirens have to say Chris Messenger, University of Glasgow,

Thursday, March 26
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Special LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Measurements of mechanical losses in black coating and bonding of silicon at low temperatures. Leonid Prokhorov, Physics, Moscow State University,

Friday, March 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Geometry of (0,2) Theories Bei Jia, University of Texas, Austin,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Finally Free: Unlocking Dark Matter Physics out of Galactic Substructures Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Postdoctoral Fellow, W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies, JPL / Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Constraining Holographic Entanglement Entropy Ning Bao, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics ,