Wednesday, October 1
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Photonic crystal cavities for nonlinear optics Sonia Buckley, Stanford University,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Interplay between CO and [C II], and the suppression of SF in Compact Group galaxies: a Herschel and CARMA view Katherine Alatalo, Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Evryscope: the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope Nicholas Law, Univ of North Carolina,

Thursday, October 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Quantum networks with spins in diamond: From remote entanglement to unconditional quantum teleportation Hannes Bernien, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft, Netherlands,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar On the complexity of full groups François Le Maître, Post Doc, Mathematics, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Correlations, Fluctuations, and Disorder at Chromium's Quantum Phase Transition Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, October 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Perturbative and nonperturbative worldsheet string theory in AdS^n x S_n x M^{10-2n} Radu Roiban, Penn State,
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Partition functions, topology, and hydrodynamics with QFT anomalies Piotr Sulkowski, Univ of Warsaw,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Combinatorial constructions of Heegaard Floer homology using bordered invariants. Bohua Zhan, Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Reflectionless measures for singular integral operators. Abstract: A reflectionless measure for an $s$-dimensional singular integral operator $T$ acting in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (with $s\in (0,d)$) is, roughly speaking, a measure $\mu$ for which $T(\mu)$ is cons Benjamin Jaye, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences, Kent State,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of Sr1-xLaxCuO2 thin films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy John Harter, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Hsieh Group, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar The kitchen sink: asymptotic analysis of random matrix models, partition function expansions, singular limits of integrable PDEs, and maybe some rudimentary approximation theory Ken MacLaughlin, Professor, Mathematics, University of Arizona,

Sunday, October 5
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Okularfest Beckman Auditorium
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Okularfest Beckman Mall

Monday, October 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark matter searches at ATLAS Ning Zhou, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Sean Hartnoll, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Structure of Instability in Moduli Theory Dan Halpern-Leistner, Ph.D student, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Kasper Schmidt, UCSB,

Wednesday, October 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Monotonicity of relative entropies and convexity of some trace functions Rupert Frank, Professor, Mathematics, Caltech,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) KMTNet: A Cold Exoplanet Census Through a Global Microlensing Survey Calen Henderson, Graduate Student, Oregon State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium How Black Holes Dine above the Eddington "Limit" without Overeating or Excessive Belching Shane Davis, Virginia,

Thursday, October 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Chain conditions and elementary amenable groups Jay Williams, Postdoc, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Weil Sums of Binomials and Helleseth's Conjecture Daniel Katz, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, California State University, Northridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Irreversibility, information and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale Christopher Jarzynski, Director, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park ,

Friday, October 10
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum spectral curve of N=4 SYM Vladimir Kazakov, Ecole Normale Superieure d'Universite Paris,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Givental J-functions, Quantum integrable systems, AGT relation with surface operator Satoshi Nawata, NIKHEF,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium There's Government in Your Science Josh Shiode, John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, American Astronomical Society,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar New results on Hitchin representations Tengren Zhang, Grad Student, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Enhancement of the hidden-order/large-moment antiferromagnetic phase boundary in the URu2−xFexSi2 and URu2−xOsxSi2 systems Noravee Kanchanavatee, Postdoctoral Scholar, Maple Group, Univ of California, San Diego,

Monday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD T. Senthil, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Parametrically Enhanced Transmission of Hidden Photons via Longitudinal Modes Yue Zhao, SLAC,

Tuesday, October 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Algebraic Groups for Everybody! Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Entanglement in one-dimensional quantum systems Yi-Chen Huang, IQIM, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers Yuri Levin, Monash University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Reciprocity relationships for gravitational-wave interferometers Yuri Levin, Monash University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Final Products of Stellar Evolution in High Metallicity Envirnonments and the UV Excess in Elliptical Galaxies Prof. Giovanni Carraro, ESO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Dynamics of super-rotor molecules in an optical centrifuge Amy S. Mullin, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park,

Wednesday, October 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Eigenvalues of the Laplacian and the Hadamard parametrix construction. Isak Mottelson, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Gaps, Warps, Rings and Collisions: How Planets Interact with Debris Disks Erika Nesvold, NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits J. E. Bowers, University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The First Stars and Galaxies in the Universe John Wise, Georgia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Average-case tightness of semidefinite relaxations of maximum likelihood estimation problems Afonso Bandeira, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	David Hsieh - Quantum States of Matter in Crystals Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 16
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Tits buildings, class groups, and the high-dimensional cohomology of SLnOK Tom Church, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Journey to the Center of the Earth David J. Stevenson, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Advances on base change, symmetric powers and tensor product functoriality Luis Dieulefait, Professor Agregat, Departament d'Àlgebra i Geometria, University of Barcelona,

Friday, October 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Ilarion Melnikov, Texas A&M,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Too-big-to-fail in the Local Group: A Challenge for LCDM Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Cosmology, U.C. Irvine,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The moduli space of S1-type zero loci for Z2-harmonic spinors in dimension 3 Ryosuke Takahashi, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Building new edge states in twisted bilayer graphene: quantum spin Hall state and electron-hole bilayers Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Graduate Student, Physics, MIT,

Monday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Speaker TBD ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Stellar particle physics Alexander Friedland, LANL,

Tuesday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Extreme Outflows and the Gas Around Galaxies Dr. Aleks Diamond-Stanic, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison,

Wednesday, October 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Ginzburg-Landau equations with self-generated magnetic field Christian Hainzl, Dr., Mathematics, University of Tuebingen,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) TBD Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi, Visiting Graduate Student Fellow,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Preludes to a Theory and Phenomenology of Galactic Winds Todd Thompson, Ohio State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 PandaX: A dark matter experiment at China JinPing Underground Lab Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland/Shanghai Jian Tong University,

Thursday, October 23
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Variations on the finite Gowers' Theorem and the Lelek fan Dana Bartosova, Mathematics, University of San Paolo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring sp2-bonded materials: From graphene liquid cells to atomic collapse Alex Zettl, Professor of Physics, Physics, UC Berkeley,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Science and the University-Government Partnership Beckman Auditorium

Friday, October 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Resurgence in quantum field theory: handling the Devil's invention Aleksey Cherman, University of Minnesota,
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Ultrahigh-resolution quantum optical coherence tomography using ultra-broadband entangled photon pairs Masayuki Okano, Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Making Supersymmetric Quivers from N=(0,2) Sigma Models Arkady Vainshtein, University of Minnesota,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar - NOTE: unusual time - 1:00p Cahill 370 Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts Camille Avestruz, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Yale University,
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Inauguration of Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum Beckman Mall
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	All-Campus Reception Olive Walk
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Attosecond Electron Control Mohammed Tharwat Hassan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Zewail group, Caltech,

Monday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Topology of the tropical moduli spaces M_{1,n} and M_{2,n} Melody Chan, NSF Postdoc Fellow , Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Shining light on new physics with improved dijet resonance identification Eder Izaguirre, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Karen Michaeli, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Tuesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Entropy of Dynamical Systems Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Nash Codes for Noisy Channels Bernhard von Stengel, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Early Star Forming Galaxies and Cosmic Rionization Prof. Dan Stark, Univ. of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector Arrays for Optical Communication and Quantum Optics Matt Shaw, JPL,

Wednesday, October 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Global Existence and Dispersion for the Klein-Gordon equation with long range nonhomogeneous nonlinearites Avy Soffer, Professor, Mathematics, Rutgers University,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Enabling the Search for Microbial Life in Other Worlds' Oceans with Digital Holographic Microscopy Jonas Kuhn, JPL,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Introduction to the Ricci and Kahler-Ricci Flows Zhou Zhang, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planet Formation through Radio Eyes Meredith Hughes, Wesleyan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Marcenko-Pastur Law for Tyler's and Maronna's M-estimators Teng Zhang, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University,

Thursday, October 30
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Topology and convexity in the space of actions modulo weak equivalence, II Peter Burton, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Math, Physics and Duality Mina Aganagic, Professor of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Ext analogues of branching laws Dipendra Prasad, Senior Professor, Mathematics, Tata Institute,

Friday, October 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Triality and AGT Mina Aganagic, UC Berkeley,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar A constructive approach to homological mirror symmetry Siu-Cheong Lau, Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Mathematics, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Impact of inhomogeneous blazar heating on the intergalactic medium Astrid Lamberts, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and symmetric domains Stergios Antonakoudis, Dr., Pure Mathematics & Mthematical Statistics , Univ of Cambridge,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Torsten Karzig, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory, Caltech,