Monday, February 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Membrane fluid mechanics: phase separation discloses flow in lipid bilayers Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, Ph.D, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs Interferometry Lance Dixon, SLAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Derived equivalent CY 3-folds from cubic fourfolds John Calabrese, RTG Lovett Instructor, Mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, February 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets Julien Vidal, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris ,

Wednesday, February 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Renormalized volume and pseudo Anosovs Greg McShane, Mathematics, Institut Fourier, France,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Tomography from Entanglement Bogdan Stoica, Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Mapping protein conformational ensembles and folding pathways with temperature-jump two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy Carlos R. Baiz, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium What drives the Star Formation History of the Universe? Fabian Walter, MPIA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED - Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Dave Penneys, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	John P. O'Doherty - How the Brain Learns from the Past and Makes Good Decisions for the Future: A Tour of Neural Reinforcement Learning Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Distribution of orders in number fields Ramin Takloo-Bighash, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Interstellar: A Physicist's Adventures in Hollywood Kip Thorne, The Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, Caltech,

Friday, February 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BIG J Simeon Hellerman, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Thermalization time bounds for Pauli stabilizer Hamiltonians Paul Kristan Temme, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Fluctuating Intergalactic Ionizing Background Across Cosmic Time Frederick Davies, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Flat strips in rank one CAT(0) spaces Russell Ricks, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Seminar Title TBA Alex Iosevich, Professor, Mathematics, University of Rochester,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar The Stability Problem for Extremal Black Holes Stefanos Aretakis, Veblen Research Instructor, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, February 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension Six Operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory Elizabeth Jenkins, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Universal unipotent local systems and Maurer-Cartan systems of algebraic cycles Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 10
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Vacuum Squeezing in a Vacuum Envelope Andrew Wade, Australian National University,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation William Chan, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological quantum computation with anyons Claire Levaillant, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 1 Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Nanoscale Cavity Optomechanics for Quantum Optics and Sensing: Diamond, Si and More Paul Barclay, Assistant Professor and Alberta Innovates Scholar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Are children's drawings good for anything? Mehrdad Shahshahani, Professor, School of Mathematics, IPM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravitational Astronomy - Prospects and Challenges a Century after Einstein B Sathyaprakash (Sathya), School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff Universtiy,

Wednesday, February 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral properties of the Fourier restriction operator and applications Julien Sabin, Mathematics, U. Paris Sud Orsay,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Geometry of Entanglement in Multiboundary Wormhole Spacetimes Shaun Maguire, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Point-curve incidences in the complex plane Joshua Zahl, Pure Math Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Precision Stellar Astrophysics: Asteroseismology and Large Spectroscopic Surveys Marc Pinsonneault, Ohio State,

Thursday, February 12
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Invariance of some spectral sequence from symplectic Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology Robert Lipshitz, Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CANCELED - Number Theory Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level Immanuel Bloch, Professor of Physics, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik,

Friday, February 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BTZ/CFT: Before the Bang Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Quantum Emitters in Wide Band Gap Semiconductors Igor Aharonovich, School of Physics and Advanced Materials, University of Technology, Sydney,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Giant Vibrating Spheres in Space: the effects of waves in stars, planets, and supernovae Jim Fuller, DuBridge Fellow, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Thin groups in arithmetic and beyond Elena Fuchs, Asistant Professor, Mathematics, Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Toda Systems, Cluster Characters, and Spectral Networks Harold Williams, Professor, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Watson 104 Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas using Matrix Product States generated with Superconducting Circuits Andreas Wallraff, Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Simulating an Interacting Quantum Gas Using Matrix Product States Generated with Superconducting Circuits(*) Andreas Wallraff, Professor, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich,

Monday, February 16
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 17
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Characterizing Topological Order with Matrix Product Operators Burak Sahinoglu, Universitat Wien,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar What are nice combinatorial sequences? Igor Pak, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 The countable admissible ordinal equivalence relation,II William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravity and the unseen sky Sydney Chamberlin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Tools from Optimization Theory and Applications to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, part 2 Dvijotham ("Dj") Krishnamurthy, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Mid-infrared and THz Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs Jérôme Faist, Professor, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich,

Wednesday, February 18
12:00 pm - 1:45 pm	Chen-Huang Sustainable Energy Seminar Baxter Lecture Hall Beyond Smoke and Mirrors--Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century Dr. Burton Richter, Paul Pigott Professor Emeritus, Physical Sciences, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Blowup Dynamics in the Keller-Segel Model of Chemotaxis Israel Michael Sigal, Norman Stuart Robertson Chair in Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Radio Astronomy – Past, Present, and Future Sander Weinreb, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Standard Model with Compactified Spatial Dimensions Bartosz Fornal, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Thursday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 A General Framework for High Accuracy Solutions to Energy Gradient Flows from Material Science Models Professor Brian Wetton, Mathematics Department, University of British Colombia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Advanced LIGO: A Prelude to Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy David H. Reitze, Senior Research Associate in LIGO and Executive Director of the LIGO Project, Caltech,

Friday, February 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Loop Amplitudes without Loop Integrands Lance Dixon,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Moving Mesh Astrophysics Paul Duffell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, U.C. Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Fibered face theory and entropy for free-by-cyclic groups Eriko Hironaka, Professor, Mathematics, Florida State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Inverse Problems for Quantum Integrable Systems Alvaro Pelayo, Associate Professor, Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Overview of Holographic Entanglement Entropy via Illustrations Shaun Maguire, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Seminar Title TBA Speaker TBA ,

Monday, February 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Hunting for Mixed Stop Decays at the LHC Michael Graesser, LANL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Twisted commutative algebras and related structures Steven Sam, Miller Research Fellow, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, February 24
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics Inaugural Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar The Polynomial Method Adam Sheffer, Harry Bateman Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Naïve entropy of dynamical systems Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill 370 No signal yet: The elusive birefringence of the vacuum, and whether gravitational wave detectors may help. Hartmut Grote, AEI Hannover,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Generalized Low Rank Models Madeleine Udell, Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University,

Wednesday, February 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Classical Limit of Quantum Mechanics Pun Wai Tong, PhD. Student, Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Star Formation Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Equivariant Verlinde Formula Du Pei, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Thursday, February 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Optically driven quantum solids: emergence without equilibrium Andrea Cavalleri, Professor of Physics, University of Hamburg and University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Divisibility in K-groups and classical conjectures in Number Theory Grzegorz Banaszak, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University,

Friday, February 27
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Studies of Fundamental Interactions of Trapped ^8Li and ^8B Ions Adrian Perez Galvan, Physics, Argonne National Laboratory,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Integrability and the conformal field theory of the Higgs branch Bogdan Stefanski, City University, London,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The Hitchin connection and the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev TQFT Jorgen Andersen, Professor, Department of Mathematics, QGM, Aarhus University,