Thursday, January 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Detecting and coupling quantum objects with quantum light Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, January 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 K3 String Theory, Lattices, and Moonshine Sarah Harrison, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Wizards vs. Time Machines Jalex Stark, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric Ian Zemke, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Practical, Reliable Error Bars in Quantum Tomography Philippe Faist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group,

Tuesday, January 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Quantum Ramsey Numbers: a Probabilistic Method Approach to Operator Systems Jalex Stark, California Institute of Technology,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Searching for Quantum Geometry with the Fermilab Holometer Jonathan Richardson, Physics, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Drainage solutions for quantum systems Victor Albert, PhD Candidate, Liang Group, Yale,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Dan Stern, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Galois theory and the cohomology of arithmetic 3-manifolds Richard Taylor, Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,

Wednesday, January 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Chains of atoms coupled to a nanofiber waveguide Jean-baptiste Béguin, Postdoctoral Scholar, QUANTOP - Danish Center for Quantum Optics, Niels Bohr Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Spin and Magnetism in Small Stars Elisabeth Newton, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Asymptotics of the eigenvalues of operators for mirror curves Lukas Schimmer, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Thursday, January 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Non-Minimality of the Shift Graph Connor Meehan, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations Stefan Patrikis, Mathematics Department, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The next questions in neutrino physics Ryan Patterson, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, January 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Moving the CFT into the bulk Mark Mezei, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Erdős distinct distances problem Felix Weilacher, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Magnetic field's travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma Siyao Xu, Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Martingale methods in conformal mapping Oleg Ivrii, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Universe through X-ray Eyes Fiona Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,

Sunday, January 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christo ffel-Darboux Kernels Jonathan Breuer, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Tuesday, January 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar A game-theoretic approach to Hjorth's turbulence theory Martino Lupini, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation Andrew Comech, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Primary and secondary pairings for pseudodifferential symbols Alexander Gorokhovsky, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The polarized microwave background: ACTPol and beyond Jo Dunkley, Princeton,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	CANCELED: Victoria Orphan - Microbial Life Support: The Invisible Living Networks That Shape Our Oceans Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Todd Thompson, Ohio State Univ. ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) How I learned to stop worrying and to love both instantons and anti-instantons Nikita Nekrasov, Professor of Physics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University,

Friday, January 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Indices, Particles, Surfaces, and Monsters Shu-Heng Shao, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Some aspects of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds Tynan Ochse, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Twofold Symmetries of the Pure Gravity Action Grant Remmen, Graduate Student, Theoretical Physics, Hertz Fellow, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 How Small Can One Shrink a Laser? Jacob Khurgin, Professor, Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

Monday, January 23
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Spectroscopy, Chiral Analysis, and Quantum Manipulation of Cryogenically Buffered Polyatomic Molecules David Patterson, Ph. D, Senior Scientist, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties, I and II Kari Vilonen, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,

Tuesday, January 24
7:30 am - 9:00 pm	Politics and American Higher Education Ramo Auditorium
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Constructing topological models by symmetrization: A Projected Entangled Pair State study Norbert Schuch, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Visualizing Molecular Vibrations: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine Lu Wei, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Anti-basis results for graphs of infinite Borel chromatic number Zoltan Vidnyanszky, Mathematics Department, York University/University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Intergalactic Medium Near Reionization Prof. George Becker, UC Riverside,
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Politics and American Higher Education Ramo Auditorium

Wednesday, January 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A homological upper bound on critical probabilities for hyperbolic percolation Nicolas Delfosse, IQIM, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 A tutorial on metric learning with some recent advances Nakul Verma, Research Specialist, Janelia Research Campus HHMI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Frontiers of 2DIR Spectroscopy: From Protein Aggregation to Wide-Field Microscopy Arnaldo L. Serrano, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Unraveling the Mystery of the Ophiuchus Stellar Stream Branimir Sesar, MPIA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Open Quantum Subgroups and Induced Representations Mehrdad Kalantar, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston,

Thursday, January 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Logic Seminar Locally compact quantum groups, their subgroups, actions, boundaries and representation theory Mehrdad Kalantar, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar NOTE: Different Day than Usual Cahill 370 Recent progress of compact binary merger simulations in Kyoto group Kenta Kiuchi, Research Associate Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Large scale geometry of homeomorphism groups Kathryn Mann, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Imaging and remote sensing of other worlds Dimitri Mawet, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Friday, January 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black Holes and Random Matrices Guy Gur-Ari, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Erdős Distinct Distances Problem Redux Sam Bardwell-Evans, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Refined Sphere-Packing Bound and Moderate Deviation Analysis for Classical-Quantum Channels Hao-Chung Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Three-quarters of the Sky, up to 120 kpc: Mapping the Galactic Halo in 3D with PS1 RR Lyrae Stars Branimir Sesar, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA),
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Kathryn Mann, Department of Mathematics , University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Local Master Equation for Small Temperatures Evgeny Mozgunov, Graduate Student, Kitaev Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) From photon correlation Fourier spectroscopy to surface plasmon lasers: fundamental studies and applications of colloidal quantum dots Jian Cui, Ph.D, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH, Zurich,

Monday, January 30
9:15 am - 5:15 pm	Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties II Ting Xue, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Analogs of Irrational Rotation Algebras Acting on L^p-Spaces Eusebio Gardella, Mathematics Department, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Solid-state imaging detectors for low-energy particle physics Alvaro Chavarria, Kavli Institute/University of Chicago,

Tuesday, January 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Logic Seminar On the complexity of conjugacy of Toeplitz subshifts Todor Tsankov, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu–PRG, Université Paris Diderot,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar TBD Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Lecture - General Lecture Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials, Complex and Real Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
4:00 pm - Monday 5:00 pm	16th Annual Wolff Memorial Lecture

Wednesday, February 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Symmetry and Attractor Messoud Efendiyev, ICB Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gaia - one billion objects in 3+ dimensions Gerry Gilmore, Cambridge,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	William Johnson - What are Glasses?: Atomic Organization and the Price of Nonconformity Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Logic Seminar How many free actions does a C*-algebra have? Eusebio Gardella, Mathematisches Institut , Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter David Pines, Distinguished Research Professor, Santa Fe Institute and UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Lecture Renormalization and Universality/Regular or Stochastic Dichotomy Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Non-emptiness of Newton strata Sug Woo Shin, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, February 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Simeon Hellerman, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar A, D, and E in Exceptional Phenomena William Ballinger, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Title to be Announced
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Projective Structures with holonomy in (Quasi-)Hitchin representations Qiongling Li, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 ClearPath Indoor Robotic Guide for the Visually Challenged Edward Katz, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Loyola Marymount University,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Science of Star Trek Michael Wong, PhD Candidate, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Monday, February 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Lecture Advances towards MLC/Area and Hausdorff dimension of Julia sets Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with Supersymmetry Bibhushan Shakya, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, February 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Daniel Weisz, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Single-Molecule Spectroscopy with Catalysts, Conductive Polymers, and Optical Microresonators Randall H. Goldsmith, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Wednesday, February 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Absolutely continuous spectrum and the spectra of periodic approximants Yoram Last, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Scalar curvature in the conformal geometry of Connes-Landi deformation Yang Liu, Mathematics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravitational Waves Observed by LIGO Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar A polytopal generalization of Sperner's lemma Francis Su, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,

Thursday, February 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Zeros of polynomials in a finite grid Anurag Bishnoi, Department of Mathematics, Ghent University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Supremacy Scott Aaronson, David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Oscillator representation interpretation of Tate's thesis Alexander Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Metasurfaces: From Nanoantennas Inclusions to Patterned 2D Sheets Hossein Mosallaei, Associate Professor and Director of Metamaterials Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University,

Friday, February 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Entanglement, Gravity, and Quantum Error Correction Xi Dong, IAS,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Symplectic fillings of lens spaces as Lefschetz fibrations Burak Özbağci, Department of Mathematics, Koç University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Analyzing Gaze Behavior in Feature Films Katherine Breeden, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-local effects in Weyl semi-metals Yuval Baum, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar,

Sunday, February 12
8:45 am - Monday 5:00 pm	Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting 35th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Monday, February 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Finiteness of Cohomology of Local Systems on Rigid Analytic Spaces Ruochuan Liu, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University,

Tuesday, February 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar The translation flow on holomorphic maps out of the poly-plane Dmitri Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Recovery maps in quantum thermodynamics Alvaro Martin Alhambra, University College, London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Roberto Decarli, MPIA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The dynamics of classifying geometric structures William Goldman, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland,

Wednesday, February 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	RSRG Seminar Annenberg 213 Some Limitations and Possibilities Toward Data-driven Optimization Yaron Singer, Professor, Computer Science, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christoffel-Darboux Kernels Jonathan Breuer, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar p-adic AdS/CFT Sarthak Parikh, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Understanding extreme quasar optical variability Matthew Graham, Caltech,

Thursday, February 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Solving Integral Trinomial Equations Mark Shusterman, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Particle Physics Beyond Colliders Arsimina Arvanitaki, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Institute,

Friday, February 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spectral Networks, BPS Graphs, and BPS Quivers Maxime Gabella, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The AGN disk channel for LIGO black hole mergers Barry McKernan, CUNY and AMNH,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Determining the finite subgraphs of the curve graph Ian Biringer, Department of Mathematics, Boston College ,

Tuesday, February 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Connes' embedding conjecture and ergodic theory Peter Burton, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Cellular optogenetics: precision tools to probe how signaling pathways control cell fate Jared Toettcher, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological quantum computation with gapped boundaries and boundary defects Iris Cong, Undergraduate Student, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Rectifiability of harmonic measure Alexander Volberg, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University,

Wednesday, February 22
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral cluster bounds for orthonormal functions Julien Sabin, Département de Mathématiques, Université Paris-Sud,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Tidal Disruption Events: Theory Confronts Observation Nick Stone, Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Optimization Challenges in Deep Learning Professor Benjamin Recht, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Origins of Structure in Galaxies and Beyond: Turbulence, Gravity, & Feedback Philip Hopkins, Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar On some algebraic constructions of extremal lattices Lenny Fukshansky, Department of Mathematics, Claremont McKenna College,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	David Prober - Using Fish to Understand How and Why We Sleep Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The quasiparticle of the quantum Hall fluids Dam Son, Professor of Physics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kreisel compactness and hyperdegrees Vassilis Gregoriades, Department of Mathematics ''Giuseppe Peano'', University of Turin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Distinguished positive regular representations Fiona Murnaghan, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Friday, February 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Entanglement Entropy Claire Zukowski, Columbia University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Exotic Astrophysical Channels for Black Hole Binary Formation Nicholas Stone, Postdoctoral Einstein Fellow, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Pin(2)-equivariant Floer homology and homology cobordism Matthew Stoffegren, Mathematics Department, UCLA,

Monday, February 27
9:15 am - 4:15 pm	Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences

Tuesday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics The Cubical Route to Understanding Groups Daniel Wise, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A Story of Stellar Nurseries Dr. Nia Imara, Harvard CfA,

Wednesday, March 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The mean curvature flow Israel Michael Sigal, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A graph coloring problem and its algebraic and topological consequences Daniel Wise, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From ultracompact binaries and transient surveys to gravitational wave astronomy Paul Groot, Radbound (Nijmegen),

Thursday, March 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Keck 142 From Edges to Domain Walls: Quantum Materials Under Scrutiny by Nanoscale Microwave Imaging Eric Yue Ma, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Can superconductivity survive at very low electron density? Patrick Lee, William & Emma Rogers Professor of Physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar p-adic L-functions Ellen Eischen, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,

Friday, March 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Macdonald index and chiral algebra Jaewon Song, KIAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Understanding Turbulent Heating in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas Greg Howes, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Xin Nie, School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Elusive Origins of Hot Jupiters Konstantin Batygin, Assistant Professor, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Monday, March 6
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Special Mathematics Lecture Tales of our Forefathers Barry Simon, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 7
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Low Frequency Noises in the LIGO​ Rana Adhikari, Professor of Physics, LIGO, Caltech,
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium More Tales of our Forefathers Barry Simon, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Wednesday, March 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Full Measure Reducibility and Localization for Quasi- Periodic Jacobi Operators: a Topological Criterion Rui Han, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Berry Connection of the Ginzburg-Landau Vortices Akos Nagy, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The stellar Eddington limit Norbert Langer, Bonn,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Ordered set partitions, generalized coinvariant algebras, and the Delta Conjecture Brendon Rhoades, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,

Thursday, March 9
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Self-Force: Towards Waveforms for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors Anna Heffernan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics Department, University of Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Borel circle squaring Andrew Marks, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) New Approaches to Dark Matter Justin Khoury, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania,

Friday, March 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum Gravity: A Free Lunch Joshua Erlich, College of William and Mary,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Richard Canary, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,

Monday, March 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar Neural networks and knot theory Mark Hughes, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar Embeddings of contact manifolds John Etnyre, Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Hybrid Rocket Propulsion for a Low Temperature Mars Ascent Vehicle Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Tuesday, March 14
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Pursuit of Low-dimensional Structures in High-dimensional (Visual) Data Yi Ma, Professor, Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar Characters and Dynamical Properties of Thompson's Group F Konstantin Medynets, Mathematics Department, United States Naval Academy,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Parallel Inputs Carl Miller, Cryptographic Technology Group, NIST,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Comparative systems physiology: how living organisms respond to environmental fluctuations Kerwyn Casey (KC) Huang, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and Microbiology and Immunology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University,

Wednesday, March 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) En Route to Electron/Positron Pair Plasmas Eve Stenson, Dr., Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics,

Friday, March 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Information loss from partition functions at late times Ethan Dyer, Stanford University,

Monday, March 20
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Better understanding of non-convex methods in machine learning. Tengyu Ma, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Princeton University,

Tuesday, March 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Silicon tuning fork mechanical oscillator for the measurement of bond loss Leonid Prokhorov, Physics, Moscow State University,

Friday, March 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Equivariance and the cosmological constant Tudor Dimofte, QMAP, UC Davis,
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	The Role of Leadership in the Journey to Gender Equity JPL, von Karman Auditorium
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Mathematical Studies of Extraordinary Field Enhancement in Subwavelength Structures Professor Junshan Lin, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Charge-spin mutual entanglement: A case study by exact diagonalization of the one hole doped t-J loop Wayne Zheng, PhD Candidate, Tsinghua University ,

Tuesday, March 28
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) More Light: Silicon Mirrors for LIGO Voyager Christopher Wipf, LIGO, Caltech,

Thursday, March 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 General randomness amplification with non-signaling security Xiaodi Wu, University of Oregon,

Friday, March 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Abelianization in complex Chern-Simons theory Andy Neitzke, University of Texas at Austin,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Rapidly rotating exoplanets, brown dwarfs and massive stars Kotaro Fujisawa, Waseda University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Why Stars Shine Robyn Sanderson, NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPIR), Caltech,