Wednesday, November 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stellar-mass black holes: X-ray binaries vs LIGO/Virgo? Peter Jonker, SRON/NL,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Linda J. Spilker - "Going Out in a Blaze of Glory: Cassini Mission Highlights" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 2
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The pseudo-identity operator on automorphic functions Jonathan Wang, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture - Quantum matter without quasiparticles: strange metals and black holes Subir Sachdev, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, November 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Dynamical Holographic Entropy Cone and General Holography Sean Weinberg, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Engineering topological materials in one and two dimensions Stevan Nadj-Perge, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 A multi-scale portrait of the circumgalactic medium Drummond Fielding, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 314 Recovering quantum gates from few average gate fidelities Ingo Roth, FU Berlin ,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem David Gabai, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Downs 103 Univalent wandering domains in the Eremenko-Lyubich Class Kirill Lazebnik, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Downs 103 L^2 Estimates for the Discrete Quadratic Carleson Operator Ben Krause, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Developments and Prospects in Precision Timing Detectors Artur Apresyan, CERN,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments: Steampunk Meets Spacecraft Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Tuesday, November 7
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Numerical binary black hole mergers in dynamical Chern-Simons Maria Okounkova, Caltech,
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 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 Strange structures from computable model theory Howard Becker, visiting Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Dynamics, geometry, and the moduli space of Riemann surfaces Alex Wright, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 8
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 A Thurston boundary for the Teichmüller space of an infinite Riemann surface Francis Bonahon, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A New Regime of Optical Variability in AGN: the Kepler Light Curves Krista Lynne Smith, KIPAC, Stanford,

Thursday, November 9
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Sharp estimates for Hörmander-type operators with positive-definite phase Marina Iliopoulou, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Demonology: The Curious Role of Intelligence in Physics & Biology James Crutchfield, Professor of Physics, Directory of Complexity Sciences Center, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Supersingular Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography Kristin Lauter, Cryptography Group, Microsoft Research,

Friday, November 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BPS Graphs of Class S Theories Pietro Longhi, Uppsala University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Algebraic Geometry Error-Correcting Codes Matthew Weidner, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes Yoni BenTov, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Kitaev Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 GPU accelerated thermochemistry and radiative transfer on protoplanetary disks and exoplanet outflows Lile Wang, Graduate Student, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Nanophotonics in the Flatland: Controlling Light at the Nanoscale with Plasmonics and Metasurfaces Koray Aydin, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University,

Monday, November 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Singular support for coherent sheaves and categories Dima Arinkin, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Accelerating axion dark matter searches with quantum information technology Konrad Lehnert, JILA,

Tuesday, November 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Non-archimedean distributions attached to twisted tensor L-functions Baskar Balasubramanyam, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Science Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Gravitational-wave polarizations: what have we learned, what will we learn, and why does it matter Maximiliano Isi, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 An Operator Algebraic Tool for Deducing Measure Equivalence of Groups Daniel Hoff, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Matrix Product Operators in Quantum Information David Perez-Garcia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium TBD Mansi Kasliwal & Gregg Hallinan, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Autoduality of Jacobians for singular curves Dima Arinkin, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 From Network Coding to Sidon Spaces Netanel Raviv, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 15
10:00 am - 4:00 pm	2017 JPL Research Poster Conference JPL
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium An X-ray View of the Dusty Universe Lia Corrales, Univ of Wisconsin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Arithmetic and Geometric Structures in Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A multiplier functional calculus Michael Hartz, Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Heather A. Knutson - "The Grand Tour: Exploring Planets Outside the Solar System" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 16
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A string-inspired SYK model and some 4d black hole phenomenology Tarek Anous, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Unresolved Problems in Neutron Decay Chen-Yu Liu, Assistant Professor, CEEM/Physics Department, Indiana University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Steering Photons: From detectors and smart windows to space propulsion and quantum forces Jeremy Munday, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Globally analytic representations of the pro-p Iwahori of GL(2) and Laurent Clozel, Département de Mathématiques d’Orsay, Université Paris-Sud,

Friday, November 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Theory and Integrability (Part 1)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Engineering Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides Alex Burgers, Postdoctoral Scholar, Kimble Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Theory and Integrability (Part 2) Mashahito Yamazaki, IPMU, University of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Make it, Mix it and Shake it — a recipe for cold gas in circumgalactic medium Suoqing Ji, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Bordered theory for pillowcase homology Artem Kotelskiy, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Jonathan Luk, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Victor Lie, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Lenses: Bending Light with Gravity Denise Schmitz, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, November 20
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar The simplification of singularities of Lagrangian and Legendrian fronts Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 The (noncommutative) geometry of difference equations Eric Rains, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Peaks, Valleys, Deserts: Searching for the invisible at the LHC Christopher Rogan, University of Kansas,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar A sheaf-theoretic model for SL(2,C) Floer homology Ciprian Manolescu, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar - NOTE THE DIFFERENT DAY Cahill 370 Formation of eccentric black hole gravitational wave mergers Johan Samsing, Einstein and Spitzer-Cotsen Fellow, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Interpolating sequences and Kadison-Singer Michael Hartz, Department of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Products of projections in Hilbert space: The interplay of slow convergence of cyclic projections and non-convergence of random projections Eva Kopecka, Institut für Mathematik, Universitat Innsbruck,

Wednesday, November 22
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Analysis Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Isoperimetric shapes in supercritical bond percolation Julian Gold, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,

Monday, November 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Drinfeld-Gaitsgory functor and contragradient duality for $(g,K)$-modules Sasha Yom Din, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fine-tuning, Vorticity, and Singularities Peter Graham, Stanford University,

Tuesday, November 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Building 15, Room 131 Non-classification of Cartan subalgebras for a class of von Neumann algebras Pieter Spaas, Department of Mathematics, UCSD,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Irreversibility and symmetry principles for general quantum processes David Jennings, University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Recent progress on correlations of multiplicative functions Maksym Radziwill, Department of Mathematics, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Gradient coding -- When coding theory and distributed computing meet Netanel Raviv, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Astrochemistry at the dawn of star and planet formation in the ALMA Era Paola Caselli, MPI,

Thursday, November 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Topological photonics: from classical to quantum Mohammed Hafezi, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics Departments, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Building 15, Room 104 Supercuspidal L-packets Tasho Kaletha, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan ,