Monday, January 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar *template Annenberg 213
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Natural Inflation and Quantum Gravity Prashant Saraswat, University of Maryland & Johns Hopkins,

Tuesday, January 6
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Extracting Progenitor Parameters of Rotating CCSNe via Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Laksh Bashin, Undergraduate, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Verifying entanglement in physical systems Dvir Kafri, JQI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Leontief Exchange Markets Can Solve Multivariate Polynomial Equations, Yielding FIXP and ETR Hardness Ruta Mehta, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, January 7
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	William M. Clemons, Jr. - How Do You Make a Greasy Protein? Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 8
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 265 Towards Neutron Star Multimessenger Astronomy: A Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves from Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources in LIGO S6 Data Jax Sanders, Graduate Student, University of Michigan,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Level raising mod 2 and arbitrary 2-Selmer ranks Chao Li, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist's view of vulcanized media Paul Goldbart, Professor and Chair, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Ab initio discovery of energy conversion pathways - theory and applications Lee-Ping Wang, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Eigencurve over the boundary of the weight space Liang Xiao, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Connecticut,

Friday, January 9
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Homology three-spheres and surgery obstructions Tye Lidman, RTG Instructor, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Well-posedness for the Cubic Dirac equation in the critical space Ioan Bejenaru, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum noise detection with cavity electro-mechanics Aaron Weinstein, Graduate Student, Schwab Group, Applied Physics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar The Euler-Maxwell system in 2D Yu Deng, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, January 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nuclei from QCD Martin Savage, University of Washington,

Tuesday, January 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar What is Gauge Theory? Siqi He, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) From h(t) to post-detection science: The gravitational-wave science workflow Madline Wade, Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Searching for intermediate-mass black-hole binaries and measuring the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational-wave detectors Leslie Wade, Teaching Assistant, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Guillermo Blanc, Carnegie Observatories,

Wednesday, January 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Topics in quantum entropy and entanglement Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics and Physics , Mathematics, Princeton University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Advanced LIGO: Adaptive Mode Matching for the Output Mode Cleaner Antonio Perreca, Research Associate, Syracuse University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Gauss-Bonnet theorem and scalar curvature for noncommutative two tori Farzad Fathizadeh, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium [In]efficient Star Formation and the ISM Eve Ostriker, Princeton,

Thursday, January 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Universality in W+jets David A. Kosower, CEA, Saclay,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) The Fermilab Holometer: Operation and RF correlation of twin 40m interferometers Lee McCuller, Graduate Student, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Generic elements in isometry groups of Polish ultrametric spaces Maciej Malicki, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Economics, Warsaw School of Economics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Riemannian Geometry of the Ising model Gavin Crooks, Physicist Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties in ramified characteristics Kai-Wen Lan, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,

Friday, January 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Infinite N=1 Dualities Jaewon Song, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Close-in Planets: Warm Jupiters, Super-Earths, and Exo-Mercuries Eugene Chiang, Professor, Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science, U.C. Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A dilogarithm identity on the moduli space of curves Feng Luo, Professor, Mathematics, Rutgers University,

Tuesday, January 20
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Laying a foundation for confident transient gravitational wave observation: characterizing the Advanced LIGO instruments Jessica McIver, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Poincare's work on Topology David Gabai, Chair, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continues on Jan 27) Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Poincare's Work on Topology David Gabai, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Wednesday, January 21
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Dirac Type Operators and Lie Groupoids Pedram Hekmati, Mathematics, University of Adelaide,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing Cosmic Acceleration with the Dark Energy Survey Joshua Frieman, Fermilab and U. Chicago,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Julia R. Greer - Size Matters: The Importance of Building Small Things Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture Crellin 151 The evolution of renormalization group theory Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Enhanced Ultraviolet Cancellations in Gravity Theories Zvi Bern, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Family Floer cohomology and mirror symmetry Mohammed Abouzaid, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Searches for Particle Dark Matter Tim Tait, Professor of Physics, Physics, UC Irvine,

Friday, January 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Umbral Moonshine and K3 Surfaces Sarah Harrison, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus A Random Pointwise Ergodic Theorem with Hardy Field Weights Benjamin Krause, Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Superfluid Optomechanics Laura DeLorenzo, Graduate Student, Schwab Group, Applied Physics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Academic Wages, Singularities, Phase Transitions and Pyramid Schemes Robert McCann, Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Monday, January 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture Crellin 151 Embedding theories in quantum chemistry Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The birational geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves on the plane Izzet Coskum, Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UIC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Latest results from Planck Charles Lawrence, JPL,

Tuesday, January 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Seminar Title TBA Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar One-ended subforests and strong treeability Andrew Marks, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Wigner functions negativity and contextuality in quantum computation Nicolas DelFosse, University of Sherbrooke,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Visualizing catalytic reactions and light-matter interactions with nanometer-scale resolution Jennifer Dionne, Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective Gustavo E. Scuseria, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. David Nataf, ANU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar - piyush2 Annenberg 213 Zeros of polynomials and their applications (continued from Jan 20) Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The geometry of the Hilbert scheme of points on surfaces Izzet Coskum, Professor, Mathematics, UIC,

Wednesday, January 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture Crellin 151 Towards an ab initio description of high-temperature superconductivity Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Pushing the Frontiers of Discovery with ALMA Kartik Sheth, NRAO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Entanglement and Geometry Bogdan Stoica, Graduate Student, PMA, Caltech,

Thursday, January 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On a motivic method in Diophantine geometry Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Fellow, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era Heather Knutson, Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech,

Friday, January 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS5 solutions from M5-branes on Riemann surface and D6-brane sources Ibrahima (Ibou) Bah, University of Southern California,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Rise and fall of magnetic fields in relativistic astrophysics Jonathan Zrake, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute for Particle Physics (KIPAC), Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Proper action on Group Manifolds Olivier Guichard, Mathematics, Université de Strasbourg, IRMA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 THE SUNSHOT OPPORTUNITY: Getting to Ubiquitous Solar Minh Le, Director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office, US Department of Energy ,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Vortex lattice anisotropy and pairing symmetry of Sr2RuO4 Morten Ring Eskildsen, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame,