Thursday, September 5
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Quick Start Guide to Teaching at Caltech Linde Hall 387
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar Linde Hall 255 The generic combinatorial simplex Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Friday, September 6
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing Black Holes Marianne Heida, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Thursday, September 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Discovering the Origins of "Typical" Millisecond Pulsar Binaries Samuel Swihart, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Michigan State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Construction and analysis of SU(3) spin liquids and resonating trimer models using Projected Entangled Pair States Norbert Schuch, Research Group Leader, Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 310 Nearby cycles of automorphic étale sheaves Kai-Wen Lan, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,

Monday, September 16
8:15 am - 12:30 pm	Short Course: Approaching the Event Horizon – Black Holes and Their Effect on the Universe Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Thursday, September 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar Linde Hall 255 Hyperfiniteness and Ramsey notions of large Allison Y. Wang, Caltech,

Tuesday, September 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations Michael Beverland, Researcher, Microsoft,

Thursday, September 26
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Telescopes, Astronomical Discoveries, and Their Influence on Literature Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Anna Ho, Caltech,

Friday, September 27
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Satellites and Stellar Halos of Nearby MW-mass Galaxies Adam Smercina, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, October 1
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Curve Counting Reading Seminar Linde Hall 183 Overview Peter Smillie, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Automatic Tensor Network Contraction Johnnie Gray, Postdoctoral Scholar, Imperial College London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu Annenberg 314 Approximate counting, phase transitions & geometry of polynomials Jingcheng Liu, Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Protostars to Adolescence: A Tour of Young Stellar Systems Gregory Herczeg, KIAA / Peking University,

Thursday, October 3
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar Linde Hall 187 Overview Justin Campbell, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Fractonicity from elasticity Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado, Boulder,
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm	The Impact of World War I on the Sciences East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Friday, October 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Avia Raviv, Tel Aviv University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Mixed anomalies, semi-classics and quantum distillation in QCD Mithat Unsal, North Carolina State University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Extracting information from small scales in weak lensing José Zorrilla, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Harmonic maps for Hitchin representations Qiongling Li, Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Fontaine-Mazur conjecture in the residually reducible case Lue Pan, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:30 pm - 5:20 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 310 Fractal properties of the Hofstadter's butterfly and singular continuous spectrum of the critical almost Mathieu operator Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
5:30 pm - 6:20 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 310 Hodge-theoretic analysis on manifolds with boundary, heatable currents, and Onsager's conjecture in fluid dynamics Khang Huynh, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Why is the Sky Dark at Night? Alessandro Schillaci, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Searching for Long Lived Particles at the LHC with Codex-b Michele Papucci, LBNL & Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 387 A compactified moduli space of pointed vertical lines in C^2 Nate Bottman, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Tuesday, October 8
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Curve Counting Reading Seminar Linde Hall 183
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring Fast Chemistries “On-Water”: Emulsions, Electrosprays, and the Air- Water Interface Himanshu Mishra, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar: Jingcheng Liu Annenberg 314 Uniform Sampling Through the Lovász Local Lemma Jingcheng Liu, Postdoc, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar Linde Hall 187 Free Field Theories and Their Observables (GW Vol 1, Chapter 2-4) Sunghyuk Park, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 9
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Demographics of intermediate-mass black holes from LIGO to LISA Karan Jani, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astrophysics, Vanderbilt University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) Josiah Schwab, UC Santa Cruz,

Thursday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) New frontiers in exoplanet science with high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy Dimitri Mawet, Caltech & JPL,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 The Hecke Orbit Conjecture for PEL Type Shimura Varieties Luciena Xiao, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Friday, October 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cobordism Classes and the Swampland Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Towards quantum information processing with arrays of Rydberg atoms Hannes Pichler, Moore Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Modeling the Nonlinear Evolution of Dark Matter Substructure Xiaolong Du, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 255 Expanding polynomials for sets with additive or multiplicative structure Cosmin Pohoata, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, October 14
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	Short Course: Forest Water Dynamics and the Earth System Response to Droughts Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 255 Quantitative recurrence and hyperbolicity of the Teichmüller flow Ian Frankel, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Primordial Non-Gaussianity as a probe of (ultra high-energy) gauge theories. Soubhik Kumar, University of Maryland,

Tuesday, October 15
All Day	Keck Institute for Space Studies Affiliates Program – 2020 Solicitation
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Microscale Fluid-Structure Interactions: Something Old, Something New and Something Unexpected Leslie Y Yeo, Professor, Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia),
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Curve Counting Reading Seminar Linde Hall 183
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar: Grigory Yaroslavtsev Annenberg 314 Advances in Linear Sketching over Finite Fields Grigory Yaroslavtsev, Assistant professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar Linde Hall 187 Factorization algebras: Definitions and Constructions Justin Campbell, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 16
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Geometry and Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Meromorphic Jacobi forms in representation theory and physics Antun Milas, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY Albany,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galactic Archaeology: Galaxy Formation and Nucleosynthesis Evan Kirby, Assistant Professor, Astronomy, California Institute of Technology,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Causality: From Aristotle to Zebrafish Beckman Auditorium Frederick Eberhardt, Professor of Philosophy, Caltech,

Thursday, October 17
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar Linde Hall 187 Condensed sets and condensed abelian groups Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Compact Proton Therapy: Improving Access to Advanced Cancer Treatment James Cooley, Director of Advanced Development, Mevion Medical Systems,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 On the Kudla-Rapoport conjecture Chao Li, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,

Friday, October 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Extensions of Kac-Moody algebras and Calabi-Yau singularities. Miroslav Rapčak, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Defect-Level Switching: A New Mechanism for Electronic Devices Rafael Jaramillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Relativistic outflows in neutron star mergers Ore Gottlieb, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, Tel Aviv University,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Caltech-UCLA Logic Seminar Quotients by countable subgroups are hyperfinite Shinko Forte, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Harmonic maps with polynomial growth Andrea Tamburelli, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Singularity formation in incompressible fluids Tarek Elgindi, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
5:00 pm - 5:50 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 310 Falconer type theorems and integral operators Eyvindur Palsson, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech,

Monday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Connecting early Universe with Observations: from Primordial Black Holes to Sterile Neutrinos Volodymyr Takhistov, UCLA,

Tuesday, October 22
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Curve Counting Reading Seminar Linde Hall 183
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics near a metal surface Joseph Subotnik, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 387 Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory in the Verlinde category in positive characteristic Siddharth Venkatesh, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu Annenberg 314 Distributed optimization in multi-agent systems: bridging the gap between centralized and distributed algorithms Guannan Qu, CMI Postdoc, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Factorization Algebras in Quantum Field Theory Learning Seminar Linde Hall 187 Basic Examples of Factorization Algebras Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 187 How large is the outer automorphism group? Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Hints of the Earliest Galaxies Steven Furlanetto, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),

Thursday, October 24
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Condensed Mathematics Learning Seminar Linde Hall 187 Condensed abelian groups and cohomology Tamir Hemo, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The ADMX Search for Dark Matter Axions Gray Rybka, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Reduced Whitehead groups of algebras over p-adic curves Nivedita Bhaskhar, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Friday, October 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Baur Maukhametzhanov, IAS,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam, UC Berkeley,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Field Formation of Compact Binaries: Common Envelope, Natal Kicks, and Gravitational Waves A. Miguel Holgado, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Ricci Flow of Doubly-warped Product Metrics Maxwell Stolarski, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 255 Sharp well-posedness for some integrable PDEs Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 On the robustness of inflation to inhomogeneities Raphael Flauger, UC San Diego,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Exploration: The Globe and Beyond Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Exploring Jupiter Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute,

Tuesday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar: Guannan Qu Annenberg 314 topic TBA Guannan Qu, CMI Postdoc, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Near Field Cosmology with the Rapid Neutron-Capture Process Alexander Ji, Carnegie Observatories,

Thursday, October 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring QCD Matter Barbara Jacak, UC Berkeley and LBNL,

Friday, November 1
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar The Black Hole and Jet in M87: Linking Simulations to VLBI images Andrew Chael, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Sounds of the Stars: Imaging Star Guts with Cosmic Music Jim Fuller, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, November 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Breakdown of the naive parton model in Super-Weak-Scale Collisions Matthew Baumgart, Arizona State University,

Tuesday, November 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	CMI Seminar: Dean Doron - *3pm start time* Annenberg 314 Nearly Optimal Pseudorandomness From Hardness Dean Doron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science Theory Group, Stanford,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 TBA Geoff Penington, Graduate Student, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 6
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Opportunities in Atomic-Scale Legoland: From Novel Electronic Phases to Quantum Devices Beckman Auditorium Stevan Nadj-Perge, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; KNI-Wheatley Scholar, Caltech,

Friday, November 8
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Title to be announced Itai Linial, Graduate Student, The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University,

Tuesday, November 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) What can be learnt on gas phase chiral systems by Photoelectron Circular Dichroism ? Laurent Nahon, Responsable Ligne De Lumière, Synchrotron Soleil, Synchrotron Soleil,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topological insulators and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in relativistic quantum field theory David Kaplan, University of Washington,

Friday, November 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Title to be announced Mike Zevin, Graduate Student, CIERA, Northwestern University,

Tuesday, November 19
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 TBA Natalie Klco, Graduate Student, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Theodore Goodson, III, The Richard Bernstein Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Michigan,

Wednesday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Physics of Enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts Pawan Kumar, Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas, Austin,

Friday, November 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Title to be announced Matthew Digman, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Ohio State University,

Friday, December 6
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Title to be announced Béatrice Bonga, Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Solar System’s Volcanic Wonderland Katherine de Kleer, Assistant Professor, Department of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech,

Wednesday, December 11
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Watson Lecture - How to Deceive Society: An Insect Masterclass Beckman Auditorium Joseph Parker, Assistant Professor Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech,

Friday, December 13
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Title to be announced Darryl Seligman, Graduate Student and Gruber Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Yale University,