Monday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars Nirmal Raj, Notre Dame University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Topology of moduli spaces of tropical curves Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,

Tuesday, October 3
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) The impact of detector characterization on gravitational wave searches Derek Thomas Davis, Syracuse,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 105 CANCELLED - Stability in the homology of configuration spaces Jenny Wilson, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Hyperfiniteness of boundary actions of cubulated hyperbolic groups Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Tropical motivic integration Sam Payne, Mathematics Department, Yale University,

Wednesday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium AS4: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) CANCELLED - Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces Alex Wright, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University ,
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Moonshine, Automorphy, and String Theory Natalie Paquette, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

Thursday, October 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Can quantum mechanics be valid on large scales? Renato Renner, Professor for Theoretical Physics and head of the research group for Quantum Information Theory, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 p-adic L-functions for nearly finite slope Hilbert modular forms and the Exceptional Zero Conjecture Mladen Dimitrov, Mathematics Department, Université Lille 1,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials Shana Kelley, Distinguished Professor , Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto,

Friday, October 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Uncovering flavor of N=2 SCFTs through geometry Matteo Lotito, University of Cincinnati,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Thermodynamics at the nano scale: The work cost of information processing Philippe Faist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Origin of Scales and Scaling Laws in Star Formation David Guszejnov, Graduate Student, TAPIR Group, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Complex curves through a contact lens Kyle Hayden, Department of Mathemaatics, Boston College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 A Polynomial Roth theorem on the Real Line Polona Durcik, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 TBA Laura Cladek, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,