Monday, October 1
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Short Course: Biodiversity Science and Remote Sensing Fundamentals South Mudd 365
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 387 On the equivariant cohomology of Calogero-Moser spaces Peng Shan, Yau Mathematics Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Development of LArTPC for Neutrino Physics Xin Qian, Brookhaven National Laboratory,

Tuesday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (1st of 2 parts) Ben Lee Volk, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 3
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometrization Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 Leopard spots and reduction of Kra's theta conjecture Nate Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Terrestrial Planets of Other Stars David Charbonneau, Harvard,

Thursday, October 4
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Decoupling Seminar Linde Hall 289 Organizational Meeting Maksym Radziwill/ Nets Katz, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) What to do with a Near Term Quantum Computer Edward Farhi, Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Google/MIT,

Friday, October 5
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Fast radio burst source properties from polarization measurements Wenbin Lu, Postdoctoral Scholar, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Embedding Seifert fibered spaces in the 4-sphere Ahmad Issa, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Sarah Peluse, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Philip Isett, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, October 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Search for the electric dipole moment of the electron with molecular ions William Cairncross, University of Colorado,

Tuesday, October 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Algebraic Complexity Theory: Lower bounds and Derandomization (2nd of 2 parts) Ben Lee Volk, CMI Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 10
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometrization Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 4.Chapter 4.5-5 of Otal Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Exotic to Familiar: Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres in the Coming Decade Caroline Morley, UT Austin,
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	The Space Barons and the New Space Age - Christian Davenport, The Washington Post Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Christian Davenport, Author, Staff Writer, The Washington Post,

Thursday, October 11
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Decoupling Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 The Stein-Tomas theorem and the Knapp example Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Linde Hall 255 Marked groups with isomorphic Cayley graphs but different Borel combinatorics Felix Weilacher, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 p-converse to a theorem of Gross-Zagier, Kolyvagin and Rubin Ashay Burungale, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Spotting the elusive Majorana under the microscope Ali Yazdani, Class of 1909 Professor of Physics and Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University,

Friday, October 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS(2) Gravity and String Theory Finn Larsen, University of Michigan,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Annenberg 105 Channeling Quantum Interactions: experiments in waveguide QED with superconducting quantum circuits Oskar Painter, John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics; Fletcher Jones Foundation Co-Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 What is ... Chern-Simons theory? Sunghyuk Park, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics QPOs, global modes and magnetized discs Janosz Dewberry, Graduate Student, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 255 Stabilization by mixing: On linear damping for the 2D Euler equations Christian Zillinger, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Heegaard Floer homology and higher representations Andrew Manion, Department of Mathematics, USC,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Ceres, an Unexpectedly Active Dwarf Planet: Findings from the Dawn Mission Bethany Ehlmann, Professor, Department of Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Monday, October 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 387 Singular Schubert Varieties and Representation Theoretic Consequences Peter McNamara, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar Section problems Lei Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar The Conway knot is not slice Lisa Piccirillo, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,

Tuesday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Attosecond science and its applications to chemical dynamics Daniel Neumark, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkekely,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Hard-core interactions on graphs Alessandro Zocca, Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Thinking inside the box: a combinatorial approach to Schubert calculus Sami Assaf, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Wednesday, October 17
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometrization Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 Proof of Thurston fixed point theorem Nathaniel Sagman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Wolfe Disk: ALMA Discoveries of Distant, HI-selected Galaxies J. Xavier Prochaska, UC Santa Cruz,

Thursday, October 18
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Decoupling Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 The role of curvature in restriction and wave packets Mayank Pandey, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) When stars go nonlinear: large amplitude tides and stellar oscillations Nevin Weinberg, Associate Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, October 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 From Seiberg-Witten Theory to Adjoint QCD Thomas Dumitrescu, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Avoiding Ergodicity: Static and Dynamical Localization in Clean Interacting Systems Yuval Baum, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Refael Group,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 An introduction to Perfectoid spaces Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 White Dwarfs and Their Neighbors: From Exoplanets to Explosions Evan Bauer, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UC Santa Barbara,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Knot concordance in 3-manifolds with an application Eylem Zeliha Yildiz, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University ,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 310 Gaps between consecutive eigenvalues of the Laplacian on generic flat tori Maksym Radziwill, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 310 A restriction estimate in $\mathbb{R}^3$ Hong Wang, Department of Mathematics, MIT,

Monday, October 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room) Nonlocal spin-exchange interactions in a near-concentric cavity Emily Davis, Graduate Student, Schleier-Smith Group, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Subleading Power Resummation from Effective Field Theory Ian Moult, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 387 The Monsky-Washnitz​er site Dingxin Zhang, Mathematics Department, Harvard University,

Tuesday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Complexity, Noise, and Emergent Properties of Learning Deep Representations Alessandro Achille, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Hypersurfaces of low entropy Lu Wang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Wednesday, October 24
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Dwarf Galaxies in the Southern Sky: Dark Matter Annihilation and the Connection to the Large Magellanic Cloud Andrew Pace, Postdoc and Mitchell Astronomy Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Recent Observational Puzzles from Tidal Disruption Flares: Towards Viable Probes in the LSST Era Brad Cenko, NASA,

Thursday, October 25
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Decoupling Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 The Cordoba-Fefferman argument as Bilinear restriction theory Andrei Shubin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Linde Hall 255 Countable Borel equivalence relations and weak choice principles Assaf Shani, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Elements of a topological quantum computer Felix von Oppen, Professor of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Generalization of Dasgupta's factorization formula of p-adic Rankin L-series Aprameyo Pal, Mathematics Department, Universität Duisburg-Essen,

Friday, October 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 On the phase diagram of SU(N)xSU(N) gauge theory with bifundamental fermion Aver Karasik, Weizmann Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 TBA TBA ,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Nanoengineered Materials and Interfaces for Quantum Technologies Pankaj Jha, Postdoctoral Scholar, Atwater Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 How stellar feedback and cosmic rays shape galaxies and their halos Tsang Keung Chan, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UC San Diego,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 255 Holomorphic retracts of Teichmuller space Dmitri Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Graduate Student Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 An overview of the Braverman-Kazhdan-Ngo's approach to L-functions Jize Yu, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Monday, October 29
8:50 am - 12:30 pm	Short Course: Exploring Once-in-a-Lifetime Targets South Mudd 365
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 387 On rigid varieties with projective reduction Shizang Li, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Significant Excess of Electron-Like Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment En-Chuan Huang, LANL,

Tuesday, October 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Protected entanglement in black holes Isaac Kim, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Ultrafast and Non Equilibrium Lattice Dynamics David A. Reis, Deputy Director of the Stanford PULSE Institute and Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Department of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Optical Nanomaterials: Chirality, Refractive Index, and Applications to Solar Energy Conversion Vivian Ferry, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Discrete groups, Lyapunov exponents, and Hodge theory Simion Filip, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Some unknown unknowns, and some known unknowns in the Standard Model EFT Michael Trott, University of Copenhagen and CERN VISC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Combining and Comparing Experiments Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Caltech,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Postdoctoral Math Seminar Linde Hall 387 Quaternionic Automorphic Forms Zavosh Amir Khosravi, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 31
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometrization Learning Seminar Linde Hall 289 Chapter 7-8 Dmirti Gekhtman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium NASA's Next Astrophysics Flagship: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Jason Rhodes, JPL,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Sergio Pellegrino - Space Solar Power: A New Beginning Beckman Auditorium