Thursday, May 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED: Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Open compact subgroups of SO_{2n+1}(F) Pei-Yu Tsai, OLGA TAUSSKY-JOHN TODD INSTRUCTOR, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Measurement of attosecond electron tunnel ionization times Hadas Soifer, Weizmann Institute,

Friday, May 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Exact Results in Calabi-Yau, D-branes, and Orientifoulds Sungjay Lee, University of Chicago,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 T-duality and scattering of stringy states Jnan Maharana, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Cosmic Dawn - Physics of the First Luminous Objects Ken Chen, IAU-Gruber Fellow, Astronomy and Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Geometry and topology of finite volume, bounded negatively curved manifolds Yunhui Wu, Professor, Mathematics, Rice University,

Monday, May 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The cosmological constant problem in scalar gravity and a naturally light dilaton Prateek Agrawal, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Symmetry protection beyond band theory: models of bosonic symmetry-protected phases in 3D Fiona Burnell, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater John Grotzinger, Professor of Geology, Division of Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook,

Tuesday, May 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Search for Young Planets Prof. Russel White, Georgia State Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Excitonic Dynamics in Conjugated Molecular Materials Peter J. Rossky, Marvin K. Collie-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Introduction to categorification Mikhail Khovanov, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium TBA Mikhai Khovanov, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia,

Wednesday, May 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the functional analysis of quantum variables Edward Effros, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar Every action of a non-amenable group is the factor of a small action Brandon Seward, Grad Student, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dark Matter Dymanics Tom Abel, Stanford,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Sarah E. Reisman - From Nature to the Pharmacy: The Chemistry Behind Modern Medicines Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Controlling superconductivity with light Alessandra Lanzara, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Heegner cycles and p-adic L-functions Francesc Castella, Dr., Mathematics, UCLA,

Friday, May 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unitarity and crossing symmetry in the S Matrix of large N Chern Simons theory with fundamental matter Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters Michael Fall, Astronomer w/tenure, Space Telescope Science Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Categorification at a prime root of unity Mikhail Khovanov, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Heegaard Floer theory and L-space knots Faramarz Vafaee, Professor, Mathematics, Michigan State University,

Monday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Manipulating single electrons in silicon for quantum computing Michael Lilly, Scientist, The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Sandia National Laboratories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar TBA Mira Peterka, Mathematics, University of Kansas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Techniques for difficult LHC signatures Matthew Buckley, Rutgers University,

Tuesday, May 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding Non-Covalent Interactions Involving Aromatic Rings Steven E. Wheeler, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Laura Perez, NRAO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black holes, star products and entanglement Monica Guica, University of Pennsylvania,

Wednesday, May 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Validity of spin wave theory for the quantum Heisenberg model Robert Seiringer, Mathematics, IST Austria,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, I Andy Zucker, Grad Student, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Greenstein Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Hunt for Millisecond Pulsar Vicki Kaspi, McGill,

Thursday, May 15
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar The Generic Point Problem and Closed Subgroups of $S_\infty$, II Andy , Zucker, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture 32nd Annual Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture Avi Wigderson, Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Explorations in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine Shamit Kachru, Professor of Physics, Stanford University,

Friday, May 16
9:00 am - Saturday 5:30 pm	Primordial Gravitational Waves and Cosmology Workshop Keck Center
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 I-Love-Q Nico Yunes, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Montana State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Knotting and Unknotting Surfaces Nathan Sunukjian, Instructor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Stony Brook University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Unconventional magnetism in dissipative atomic systems Tony Lee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Theoretical Atomic Molecular nad Optical Physics (ITAMP), Harvard University,

Monday, May 19
8:15 am - 12:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Multi-Functional Energy Projecting Systems for Planetary Exploration
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lessons in Near-Field Cosmology from Simulating the Local Group Shea Garrison-Kimmel, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Banach Space Projections and Petrov-Galerkin Estimates Ari Stern, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,

Tuesday, May 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Symmetry-Protected Topological Entanglement Iman Marvian, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium HSTPROMO: Local Group Dynamics from HST Proper Motions Dr. Roeland van der Marel, STScI,

Wednesday, May 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Logic Seminar The Pinned Cardinal of Analytic Equivalence Relations William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Rest-frame Optical Spectra: A Window into Galaxy Formation at z~2 Alice Shapley, UCLA,

Thursday, May 22
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A Morse-Bott approach to Pin(2)-monopole Floer homology Francesco Lin, Grad Student, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA David Geraghty, Mathematics, Boston College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System Kevin Hand, Deputy Chief Scientist, Solar System Exploration, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Patching and the p-adic local Langlands Correspondence David Geraghty, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Boston College,

Friday, May 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Bootstrapping Conformal Field Theories David Simmons-Duffin, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 New Diagnostics of MHD Turbulence in the Multiphase ISM Blakesley Burkhart, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UW-Madison,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Plane Floer Homology and the Knot Concordance Group Aliakbar Daemi, Grad Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Transfer-matrix treatment of surface disorder in topological insulator Kun Woo Kim, Graduate Student, Condensed Matter Theory - Refael Group, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Rapid Mixing of Quantum Local Dissipative Systems Angelo Lucia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Joe Silk, Johns Hopkins Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring the Bio-Nano Interface: Integrating Live Cells with Nanosensors Bianxiao Cui, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar A positive proportion of plane cubics fail the Hasse principle Manjul Bhargava, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University visiting Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium IZI: Inferring Metallicities and Ionization Parameters with Bayesian Statistics Guillermo Blanc, Carnegie,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Resiliency of the Power Grid Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Long Space Age: An Economic History of American Space Exploration Alexander MacDonald, Executive Staff Specialist, Civil and Commercial Space Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 28
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Logic Seminar A model-theoretic portrait of a family of countably universal graphs Rehana Patel, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Olin College of Engineering,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The chemistry of planet formation Karin Oberg, Harvard,

Thursday, May 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On the image of complex conjugation in certain Galois representations Anna Caraiani, Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Galactic Center: Unveiling the Heart of our Galaxy Andrea Ghez, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,

Friday, May 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 QCD in the Veneziano Limit Elias Kiritsis, University of Crete,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Design of 3D printed mathematical art Henry Segerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Oklahoma State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Structure on the set of triangulations Henry Segerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Oklahoma State University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Measuring the pseudo-spin space of hydrogenated graphene Thomas Szkopek, Associate Professor , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University,