Tuesday, April 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Stellar and Dark Mass Assembly of Galaxies Dr. Niv Drory, Univ. of Texas, Austin,
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Random Walks and their Scaling Limits Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, April 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Singularities and why we love them: universal behaviors in geometric heat flows Dan Knopf, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Univ. of Texas at Austin,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Mutual dimension Jack Lutz, Professor , Mathematics, Iowa State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The EAGLE Universe Richard Bower, Durham,
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Arlases consisting of Bruhat cells Allen Knutson, Professor, Mathematics, Cornell University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Sarkis Mazmanian - Say Hello to Your Little Friends: How Gut Bacteria Can Be Harnessed as Novel Therapies for Disease Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On level 1 algebraic cusp forms of classical groups Gaetan Chenevier, Professor, Mathematics, École Polytechnique ,
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part II Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Explaining Physics in a Minute (or Two) Henry Reich, MinutePhysics,

Friday, April 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Ibou Bah, University of Southern California,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Galaxy evolution and gas flows: from massive clusters to isolated dwarfs Andrew Wetzel, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Seiberg-Witten Floer KO-theory and intersection forms of spin 4-manifolds Jianfen Lin, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Congruent skein relations for quantum invariants of links Qingtao Chen, Professor, Mathematics, ICTP,

Monday, April 7
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm	13th Annual Thomas Wolff Memorial Lectures in Mathematics Random Walks and their Scaling Limits - Part III Gregory F. Lawler, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Broken SU(4) Symmetry and The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene Inti Sodemann, University of Texas at Austin,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The specific Star Formation Rate Plateau and the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies between z~8 and z~4 Valentino Gonzalez, UC Riverside,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Spatio-Temporal Correlation Mining Professor Alfred Hero, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of Michigan ,

Tuesday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Direct Dynamics and Intrinsic Non-RRKM Dynamics. Applications to SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions William L. Hase, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Tidally Heated ExoMoons (THEM): Theory, Observational Prospects & Astrobiological Possibilities Prof. Edwin Turner, Princeton Univ.,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Free Public Panel: The Future of Human Spaceflight Beckman Auditorium
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	FREE PUBLIC PANEL: Beckman Auditorium The Future of Human Spaceflight

Wednesday, April 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar An inverse spectral problem for Hankel operators Alexander Pushnitski, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, King's College London,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar Some Hurewicz-like tests on the product of two Polish spaces Rafael Zamora, Mathematics, University of Paris,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Nearby Galaxies: Star Formation in Your Neighborhood Daniela Calzetti, UMass,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Conformal Bootstrap Near the Lightcone, and Universality of Long-Distance AdS Physics Liam Fitzpatrick, Stanford University,

Thursday, April 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Determination of quadratic forms by their representation numbers Vinayak Vatsal, Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces Harold Hwang, Professor of Applied Physics, Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar p-adic distribution of period integrals for unitary groups Eric Urban, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Columbia,

Friday, April 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Daniel Jafferis, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 3d N=4 Gauge Theories, Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood Polynomials Noppadol Mekareeya, CERN,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Combining Probes of Large-Scale Structure in the Precision Cosmology Era Elisabeth Krause, Post-doctoral Researcher, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Framed instantons and Khovanov homology Christopher Scaduto, Grad Student, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, April 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Polynomials on Products Frank de Zeeuw, Mathematics, EPFL, Lausanne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Self-organized topological state with Majorana fermions Marcel Franz, Professor, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Nick Hutzler, Harvard University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The distribution of metals in the z~2.5 circumgalactic medium Neil Crighton, Swinburne,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Free Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Past, Present and Future of Understanding Earthquakes Using Space Observations Dr. Andrea Donnellan, Principal Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Tuesday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Submillimeter Perspective on Cosmic Star Formation Dr. Caitlin Casey, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New signs of naturalness Nathaniel Craig, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Macromolecular Translocation Through Nanopores Murugappan Muthukumar, Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,

Wednesday, April 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Function approximation on unstructured data Hrushikesh Mhaskar, Visiting Associate, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolutionury Sun Kwok, Univ of Hong Kong,

Thursday, April 17
9:30 am - 5:30 pm	Dark Matter in Southern California (DaMaSC) Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) TBA

Friday, April 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Jennifer Lin, University of Chicago,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Minimal representations as a generalisation of holomorphy for supergravity F-terms Guillaume Bossard, Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT,

Monday, April 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The mean-field limit of Bosons in the Heisenberg picture Antti Knowles, Mathematics, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Non-commutative strict higher C*-categories Paolo Bertozzini, Mathematics, Thammasat University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Influence of Symmetry on Quantum Hall States in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene Ben Feldman, Postdoc, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent BICEP-2 results Grant Teply, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies Karin Sandstrom, Arizona,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Statistical Learning and Optimization Based on Comparative Judgements Robert Nowak, McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Tuesday, April 22
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 TBD Debbie Leung, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Three Dimensional Milky Way Galaxy Dr. Bob Benjamin, Univ. of Wisconsin - Whitewater,

Wednesday, April 23
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar Random partitions and weak containment of the Bernoulli shift (after Abert and Weiss) Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Y Dwarfs and the Field Substellar Mass Function Davy Kirkpatrick, IPAC/Clatech,

Thursday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Albanese quotients of Picard modular surfaces, and rational points Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Mathematics, University Lille 1,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmic clues for dark matter Kathryn Zurek, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) A Quiet Revolution in Optical Microscopy Steven Chu, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate , Physics Department, Stanford University,

Friday, April 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Guilherme Pimentel, Princeton University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Update after AMS: implications on Dark Matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources Ilias Cholis, Research Associate, Astrophysics, FNAL,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A diagrammatic categorification of a Clifford algebra via contact topology Yin Tian, Mathematics, USC,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Distinguishing topologically and smoothly doubly slice knots Jeffrey Meier, Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,

Monday, April 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar "Green kernels for Schrödinger equations" Ari Laptev, Professor, Mathematics, Imperial College London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Strongly-Interacting Supersymmetry: Theoretical Motivations and Phenomenology Lauren Pearce, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Phase transitions and Majorana bound states in engineered topological superconductors Aaron Finck, Postdoc, UIUC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Incidences, Polynomial Partitioning, and Hilbert Polynomials Adam Sheffer, Tel Aviv University, Mathematics, Tel Aviv University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Multidimensional parameter space, the final frontier Ciro Donalek, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The orbits of the Earth and Planets and Their Relation to the Celestial Reference Frame Bill Folkner, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Stella Ofner, Yale Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) What Color are Atmospheric Aerosols? Development of a Novel UV-Vis Aerosol Absorption Spectrophotometer Geoffrey D. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia,

Wednesday, April 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Universality and regularity of the integration operator Vassilis Nestoridis, Professor, Mathematics, University of Athens,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Pre-Supernova Evolution of Massive Stars Nathan Smith, Arizona,