Friday, November 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A (0,2) overview Ilarion Melnikov, MPI, Potsdam,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Ke Fang, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago,

Monday, November 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice Marta Kwiatkowski, Trinity College, University of Oxford,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Outer Architecture of M Dwarf Planetary Systems Revealed Through High-Contrast Imaging Brendan Bowler, GPS, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium / EE Systems Seminar Annenberg 105 From Cloud to Fog Mung Chiang, Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science, Princeton University,

Tuesday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Molecular Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Breathing, Proton Conduction, and Spin Crossover Francesco Paesani, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Development and Performance of MOSFIRE, the Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infrared Exploration at Keck Observatory Prof. Ian McLean, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall Geometrical Snapshots from Ancient Times to Modern Times Tom Apostol, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The microphysics of astrophysics: adventures in computational magnetohydrodynamics Xuening Bai, Harvard,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Axel Scherer - From Lab-on-a-Chip to Lab-in-the-Body: The Role of Nanotechnology in the Miniaturization of Medical Diagnostic Tools Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Sometimes Surprising Behavior of Magnetic Spins on a Complex Surface Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center,

Friday, November 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors Denis Klevers, Univ of Pennsylvania,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Getting the Most Out of a Black Hole Alexander Tchekhovskoy, NASA Einstein Fellow , Nuclear Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

Monday, November 11
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Sampling Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra and Their Application Yousef Saad, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota,

Tuesday, November 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Exponential Improvement in Precision for Hamiltonian-Evolution Simulation Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Alis Deason, UCO/Lick),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring the Free Energy Landscapes of Complex Molecules & Crystal Polymorphs Using Enhanced Sampling & Machine Learning Techniques Mark E. Tuckerman, Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY,
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Free Public Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Theodore von Kármán and Rocketry at Caltech Erik M. Conway, Historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, November 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The build-up of galaxies since z~2 Pieter van Dokkum, Yale,

Thursday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) International Science Diplomacy E. William Colglazier, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, U.S. State Department,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Multi-Dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Arbitrary Nodes Professor Dongbin Xiu, Department of Mathematics, and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Unversity of Utah,

Friday, November 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals Sergey Cherkis, Univ of Arizona,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Supernova neutrinos – flavor evolution and signals Tina Lund, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Wilson, Naturalness, and the Higgs Andrew Cohen, Boston University,

Monday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Stability Professor Bin Yu, Departments of Statistics and EECS, University of California at Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Topic to be announced. Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Statistics / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley,
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Defect lines in 2d CFTs Daniel Roggenkamp, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrions in IceCube Claudio Kopper, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Bright and dark: satellite galaxies as a test of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter Anna Nierenberg, UCSB,

Tuesday, November 19
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete David Gosset, University of Waterloo,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete David Gosset, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Seeing Gravitational Waves: Transients in the Local Universe Dr. Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Wavefunction Antisymmetry and Molecular Dissociation: Fixing Coupled Cluster Theory Frederick R. Manby, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Watching the wave function collapse: observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting qubit Kater Murch, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Active, sterile neutrinos and dark matter in models with new U(1) gauge symmetry Rathin Adhikari, Centre for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium CANCELED — The Thirty Meter Telescope: How California, Canada, China, India and Japan are Working Together to Build a Next Generation Extremely Large Telescope Gary Sanders, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Learning the Learning Rate: How to Repair Bayes When the Model is Wrong Professor Peter Grünwald, CWI Amsterdam & Leiden University ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Reionization Chris Carilli, NRAO, Socorro,

Thursday, November 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Moore B280 Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach. Christoph Flamm, Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications? Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Q Station, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach. Christoph Flamm, Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna,

Friday, November 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian Jacob Bourjaily, Harvard,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Plasma Microphysics to Global Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies, Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows, and the Solar Wind Matthew Kunz, NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,

Monday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Future Searches for Sterile Neutrinos Jonathan Link, Virginia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 How to detect symmetry protected topological order in a two dimensional ground state wavefunction Michael Zaletel, UC Berkeley,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae Ben Shappee, Ohio State,

Tuesday, November 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Possible Implications of Double Disk Dark Matter Lisa Randall, Harvard,