Monday, January 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Twisted Universe: Cosmic Polarization Tests of CPT Violation Brian Keating, UC San Diego,

Tuesday, January 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Anchoring games for parallel repetition Henry Yuen, MIT,

Wednesday, January 6
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar TBA Sergei Gukov, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Magnetic Toys in the Sky Yuri Levin, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University,

Friday, January 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Drama from strings Matthew Dodelson, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 An Energy Barrier is Necessary for the Thermal Stability of Stabilizer Quantum Memories Anna Komar, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,

Monday, January 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance Peng Jiang, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Light Dark Matter from Boltzmann Factors Josh Ruderman, New York University,

Tuesday, January 12
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar Recap and overview Xinwen Zhu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation, III William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Low energy probes of high energy physics David Moore, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Continuing the Legacy of Supernova Cosmology Prof. Ryan Foley, Univ. of Illinois,
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Reading Seminar Jalex Stark,

Wednesday, January 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The shortest-period planets Joshua Winn, MIT,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Building the First Spaceport in Low Earth Orbit John Blincow, Gateway Foundation, Dr. Thomas R. Spilker, Retired (JPL),

Thursday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) What does a typical dynamical system look like? Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar On the set of L-space surgeries for links Eugene Gorsky, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Bounding 2-torsion in class groups Jacob Tsimerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Jacob Tsimerman, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Friday, January 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Boltzmann Brains: Why They Appear, and Why They Are Bad Sean Carroll, Research Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Caltech,

Tuesday, January 19
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar The Standard Conjectures Daniel Siebel, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Improving Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO TJ Massinger, Physics, Syracuse University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 An EFT for Forward Scattering and Factorization Violation Iain Stewart, MIT,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum encryption and obfuscation Gorjan Alagic, University of Copenhagen,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Pushing noble liquids to new limits: dark matter detection in xenon and superfluid helium Scott Hertel, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Chris Martin, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Hard Open Problems in Euclidean Geometry Larry Guth, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, MIT,

Wednesday, January 20
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Free Monotone Transport Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years after Russell Jason Kalirai, STScI, Maryland,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Christopher Umans - Algorithmic Magic: Behind the Scenes of Modern Computer Science Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA Preston Wake, Assistant adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar An affine deformation of the quantum cohomology ring of flag manifolds and the periodic Toda lattice Leonardo Mihalcea, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Virginia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, and Quantum Information Stefan Leichenauer, UC Berkeley,

Friday, January 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library "Singlet Catalyzed Electroweak Phase Transition" Peter Winslow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Conformal blocks from AdS Per Kraus, UCLA,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Bridging theory and observations - Fundamental physics with cosmological surveys Elisabeth Krause, Postdoctoral Scholar, KIPAC, Stanford University/SLAC,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Ian Zemke, Research Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library "HIdden Sector Shining the Light: Gamma-Ray Excess and Diphoton Excess" Jiang-Hao Yu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Progress toward a spin squeezed 171Yb optical atomic clock Boris Braverman, Graduate Student, Vladan Vuletić Group, MIT,

Monday, January 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gravitational wave astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays Chiara Mingarelli, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Motivic vector bundles on P^n Aravid Asok, Associate Professor, Mathematics, USC,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Reading Seminar Ehrenfeuct-Fraisse Games Jalex Stark, Student, Caltech,

Tuesday, January 26
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar The motivic Galois group of Abelian varieties of potential CM type Majid Hadian, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathemaatics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Monsters in the Dark: Glimpsing the High-Energy Signatures of Black Hole Formation with Multimessenger Astronomy Alex Urban, Physics, U Wisconsin Milwaukee,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 NO SEMINAR One Entangled Evening Event
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Population Explosion: Understanding the Populations of Hot Jupiters, Black Holes, Earth-like Exoplanets, and (Eventually) LIGO Sources Will Farr, University of Birmingham,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Clocks to weigh Beyond Standard Model Physics: Muon g-2 and the Neutrino Mass Scale Martin Fertl, Univeristy of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A world from a sheet of paper Tadashi Tokieda, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow, Cambridge/Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Alice Shapley, UCLA,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	One Entangled Evening: A Celebration of Richard Feynman's Quantum Legacy Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, January 27
9:00 am - 4:00 pm	Quantum Summit Ramo Auditorium
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Phase diagram of quantum spin systems with S=1 and SU(2)-invariant interactions Daniel Ueltschi, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Warwick,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Highlights from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) Tommaso Treu, UCLA,

Thursday, January 28
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Kahler Constant Scalar Curvature Metrics and Resolutions of Singularities Claudio Arezzo, Research Scientist, ICTP,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Average of p-torsion in class groups of number fields Lillian Pierce, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Duke University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) What can we learn from modifying gravity ? Claudia de Rham, Assistant Professor of Physics, Case Western Reserve University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Combinatorics Semnar Noncontractibility of order complexes of coset posets and common divisors of binomial coefficients John Shareshian, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Washington University,

Friday, January 29
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 On Holo-Hilbert Spectral Analysis and Some Applications Professor Norden E. Huang, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Clay Cordova, IAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Inferring the Galactic gravitational potential with Gaia and friends Robyn Sanderson, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Convex Optimization Approaches to Protein Structural Calculation from NMR Yuehaw Khoo, Physics and Applied Math, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The decategorification of Ozsvath-Szabo's bordered theory for HFK Andy Manion, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library "Two-step electroweak baryogenesis" Grigory Ovanesyan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Carleson operators along curves and surfaces Lillian Pierce, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Duke University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Exact formulas for random growth off a flat interface Daniel Remenik, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Engineering, University of Chile,

Monday, February 1
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special CPS Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) From Photons to Excitons to Materials: Understanding Energetic Heterogeneity and its Role in Technology and Energy Transport Justin Caram, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Complexity Equals Action Adam Brown, Stanford University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Reading Seminar Computational and descriptive complexity Martino Lupini, Harry Bateman Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 2
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar The motivic Galois group of Abelian varieties of potential CM type II Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Inference on gravitational waves from coalescences of stellar-mass compact objects and intermediate-mass black holes: an outlook of the current and future state of CBC parameter estimation Carl-Johan Haster, Physics, Birmingham,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Disequilibrium, Classicality and Complexity Charles Bennett, IBM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Polar Molecules Nick Hutzler, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 107 Efficient Spectral Methods for Learning Mixture Models Qingqing Huang, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar GIT characterizations of Harder-Narasimhan filtrations Alfonso Zamora Saiz, Lecturer AY-Math, Mathematics, CSU Channel Islands,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Matt Turk, NCSA/Univ. of Illinoia,

Wednesday, February 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Rational approximation of functions with logarithmic singularities Alexander Pushnitski, King's College London,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Ground State Patterns and Phase Transitions for Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Numerics and Analysis Professor I-Liang Chern, Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library "Who triggered electroweak baryogenesis" Wei Chao, Research Fellow, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing the Dawn of Galaxies Pascal Oesch, Yale,

Thursday, February 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Counting genus-2 curves with split Jacobians Everett Howe, Center for Communications Research,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Slopes of overconvergent modular forms over boundary of the weight space Ruochuan Liu, Professor, Mathematics, BICMR,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier Anyes Taffard, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Friday, February 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure Fabian Schmidt, Scientific Staff Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Jonathan Hanselman, PhD student, Mathematics, UT Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories Charles Edouard Bardyn, Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory,

Monday, February 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Maximal representations and projective structures on iterated sphere bundles Anna Wienhard, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics & Physics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter Joseph Bramante, Notre Dame University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar II_1 Factors with Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers Adrian Ioana, Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Reading Seminar Computational and descriptive complexity Martino Lupini, Bateman Research Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds Shicheng Wang, Peking University,

Tuesday, February 9
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Learning Seminar An introduction to Weil groups Andrei Frimu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Probing the universe on a table top experiment Atta Almasi, Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Revisiting the first-order theories of McDuff's II_1 factors Isaac Goldbring, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Compiling qubits Jon Yard, Microsoft,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Probing Small Planets at Several AU with Microlensing Dr. Jennifer Yee, Harvard-CfA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Polynomials representing primes James Maynard, Mathematical Institute, Magdalen College,

Wednesday, February 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Level-Set Methods for Convex Optimization Michael Friedlander, Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Orbits and Atmospheres of Directly Imaged Exoplanets Quinn Konopacky, UC San Diego,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Gregg Hallinan - Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Frequency Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Creating Ultrabroadband Frequency Combs in the Infrared Konstantin Vodopyanov, 21st Century Scholar Chair & Professor of Optics & Photonics, and Physics, College of Optics, University of Central Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Novel Neurotechnologies: simultaneous 3D all-optical imaging and activation of neurons in living brains Rafael Yuste, M.D., PhD., Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University,

Friday, February 12
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Exponential Integrators of EPIRK-type: Construction, Analysis and Implementation Assistant Professor Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced ,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fivebranes and 3-manifold homology Pavel Putrov, IAS,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Abhijit Gadde, IAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Probing Gravity: CMB Lensing, Galaxies, and Intensity Mapping Anthony Pullen, McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow, McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Foliations and flow box decompositions Rachel Roberts, Professor, Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Primes with restricted digits James Maynard, Professor, Mathematical Institute, Magdalen College University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Primes with restricted digits James Maynard, Professor, Mathematical Institute, Magdalen College University of Oxford,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Cancellation for the multilinear Hilbert and simplex transforms Terence Tao, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, February 15
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	34th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 16
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	34th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Prashant K. Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events Hsin-Yu Chen, Physics, University of Chicago,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases. Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unmasking the Neutrino: The Standard Model and Beyond Diana Parno, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium AGN Host Galaxies, Fueling, and Feedback to z ~ 2 Prof. Alison Coil, UCSD,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The Arrow of Time Jurg Frohlich, Prof. Dr., Physics, IAS and ETH Z¨urich,

Wednesday, February 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Effective Dynamics in Quantum Theory Juerg Froehlich, Professor, Physics, ETH Zurich and IAS Princeton,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Seminar East Bridge 114 Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Noncommutative Rational Surfaces and Special Functions Eric Rains, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New frontiers in Cosmology Yacine Ali-Haimoud, John Hopkins,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Analysis on Fractal Manifolds and Noncommutative Geometry: A Tale of Metrics, Hausdorff Measures and Geodesics Michel Lapidus, Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and of Computer Science and Engineering, UCR,

Thursday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Simon White, MPA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Fundamental Lessons From String Theory Cumrun Vafa, Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, February 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Classical and Quantum Black Hole Hair Dieter Luest, LMU,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium EFT of large scale structure, symmetries and constraints Mehrdad Mirbabayi, IAS Scholar, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms Hannah Price, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento in Italy,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescope Evan Kirby, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, February 20
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Logic in Southern California

Tuesday, February 23
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar The 1-dimensional case: algebraic Hecke characters nathan Lawless, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Sharply 3-transitive groups Katrin Tent, Professor, Universität Münster,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Guineveve Kauffman, MPA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium First Results from Advanced LIGO Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops Lauren Zarzar, Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops, Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A drunk walk in a drunk world Ivan Corwin, Clay Research Fellow, Mathematics, Columbia University, Clay Mathematics Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LUX and LZ: Dark Matter Searches and Beyond Carmen Carmona-Benitez, UC Santa Barbara,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ripples in Spacetime: Our New Window on the Universe Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, February 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A family of monotone quantum relative entropies Julien Sabin, Mathematics, University Paris Orsay,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Kauffman Brackets on Surfaces Francis Bonahon, Professor, Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium THIS COLLOQUIUM HAS BEEN CANCELLED
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Stochastic quantum integrable systems Ivan Corwin, Associate Professor, IHP Poincare Chair Packard Fellow , Mathematics, Columbia,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Reconstruction of depth-3 circuits Gaurav Sinha, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, February 25
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium nu Physics in the Early Universe Daniel Green, Assistant Professor, CITA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Research Campus,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hurewicz isomorphisms for algebraic varieties Johannes Anschuetz, Professor, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg,

Friday, February 26
9:00 am - 4:30 pm	Science & Society Conference Beckman Auditorium
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Confronting the Standard Model with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Ryan Cooke, Hubble Fellow, Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Heegaard Floer homology for tangles and cobordisms between them Akram Alishahi, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED Charles Cao, Graduate Student, Physics, Caltech,

Monday, February 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Energy Full Counting Statistics in Return to Equilibrium Jane Panangaden, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Directions in Bouncing Cosmologies Anna M. Ijjas, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Regularity and blow up in models of fluid mechanics Alexander Kiselev, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, March 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Time-correlated errors in quantum computation Hector Bombin, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Regularity and blow up in ideal fluid Alex Kiselev, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Non-commutative biology: single cell in situ analysis by sequential FISH Long Cai, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, March 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stars In Motion: Impact in Star Formation, Compact Objects, and Galactic Centers Jessica Lu, U. Hawaii,

Thursday, March 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Arithmetic Statistics of Elliptic Curves Nathan Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Imaging Relativistic Fermions in Atomically-Engineered Graphene Potentials Michael Crommie, UC Berkeley,

Friday, March 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS4 solutions of massive IIA from dyonic supergravity and their simple Chern-Simons dual Oscar Varela, Utah State University,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optomechanical, vibrational and thermal properties of graphene nanoresonators Cornelia Schwarz, Institut Néel, CNRS,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 S-duality of u(1) gauge theory with theta=pi on non-orientable manifolds: Applications to topological insulators and superconductors Max Metlitski, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Using the cosmos to search for the invisible: the hidden worlds of dark matter, black holes, and structure formation Katelin Schutz, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Kristen Hendricks, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, March 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special Seminar in Mathematics Higher Pentagram Maps via Cluster Mutations and Networks on Surfaces Michael Gekhtman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New results from the LHC at 13 TeV Frank Golf, UC Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, March 8
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Quantum Limits in Interferometers. Belinda , Pang, Tapir, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Describing finite groups by short first-order sentences Andre Nies, Professor, Computer Science, University of Auckland,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 A linear time algorithm for quantum 2-SAT Sevag Gharibian, Virginia Commonwealth University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium MULTI-MESSENGER MONSTERS!!! Sarah Burke Spolaor, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Towards homological mirror symmetry for hypersurfaces in toric varieties Denis Auroux, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium First Results from Advanced LIGO Prof. Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Atomic-Layer Semiconducting Crystals for Emerging 2D Devices and Nanosystems Philip Feng, Assistant Professor, Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University,

Wednesday, March 9
1:30 pm - Friday 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gravity Dual of Relative Entropy and Comments on Bulk Reconstruction Jennifer Lin, IAS,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Eta Invariant and Analytic Torsion Xianzhe Dai, Professor, Mathematics, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Combinatorics of shallow water waves Lauren Williams, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Thinking Big (and Small) : Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys Alexie Leauthaud, Kavli IPMU, Tokyo,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Rana Adhikari - Listening to the Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, March 10
10:00 am - 11:00 am	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Data-driven, Interactive Scientific Articles in a Collaborative Environment with Authorea Alberto Pepe, Co-founder of Authorea,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black hole degeneracies from brane-instantons Sameer Murthy, King's College ,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA Nicolas Templier, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Cornell,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Motives, Periods, and Special Values of Zeta-Functions Stephen Lichtenbaum, Professor, Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00 pm - Saturday 5:00 pm	General Relativity at One Hundred: The Sixth Biennial Bacon Conference Multiple locations - See event detail for more information

Friday, March 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Exploring the Link Between Galaxy Evolution Parameters and Pulsar Timing Array Observations Joseph Simon, Graduate Student, Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

Tuesday, March 15
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Leo Brunswic, University of Avignon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Lensing Surveys Prof. Alexie Leauthaud, IPMU,

Wednesday, March 16
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Feynman Periods: Numbers and Geometry Dmitry Doryn, IBS, Center for Geometry and Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Missing Pages of Cosmic History Anastasia Fialkov, Harvard/CfA,

Thursday, March 17
9:00 am - Sunday 5:00 pm	Workshop on Surface Group Representations Workshop on Surface Group Representations Various Speakers ,
10:00 am - 11:00 am	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Interactive Modelling of Search Intent for Exploratory Search Antti Kangasrääsiö, Aalto University, Finland,

Friday, March 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Deformation quantization from superconformal symmetry in three dimensions Chris Beem, IAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The link between fluid instabilities in a core-collapse supernova and asymmetric accretion flows in a collapsing progenitor Kazuya Takahashi, JSPS Fellow, High-Energy Astrophysics Group, Waseda University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics What Causes the Northern Lights? A Tour of Aurorae on Different Planets Sebastian Pineda, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Monday, March 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Off Campus Compact quotients of pseudo-Riemannian hyperbolic spaces Nicolas Tholozan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Luxembourg,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Off Campus The Homfly skein and elliptic Hall algebras Peter Samuelson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Iowa,

Tuesday, March 22
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Searching for continuous gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 Badri Krishnan, Physics, AEI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Measuring the Mass Function of Dark Matter Subhalos with ALMA Observations of Graviationally Lensing Surveys Dr. Yashar Hezaveh, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Strains And Simulations: Inferring Properties of Gravitational Wave Sources Without Models James Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Thursday, March 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Quantum Speed Meter Based on Dissipative Coupling Sergey Vyatchanin, Moscow State Univeristy,

Friday, March 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Defects and Instantons in five-dimensional field theories Hee-Cheol Kim, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Physics near Rapidly Spinning Black Holes Samuel Gralla, Asst Professor, Dept of Physics, University of Arizona,

Saturday, March 26
9:30 am - 5:00 pm	N+8th Southern California Topology Colloquium