Friday, May 1
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 On the Statistics of Biased Tracers in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures Zvonimir Vlah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Heegaard Floer contact invariants for positive rational surgery Tom Mark, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: long range interactions and photon molecules James Douglas, Postdoctoral Scholar, Theoretical Quantum-Nano Photonics, ICFO, Barcelona,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Sung Jin Oh, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Monday, May 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent Results from PICO Hugh Lippincott, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Decomposition Theorem and Parity Sheaves Carl Mautner, Mathematics, UC Riverside,

Tuesday, May 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topics in adiabatic quantum computing Tameem Albash, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Yue Shen, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 SESAME- A POSSIBLE SOURCE Of LIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST Eliezer Rabinovici, Hebrew University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Microlocal Analysis on Representations, and Applications To Number Theory Akshay Venkatesh, Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,

Wednesday, May 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Spectral Triples and Toeplitz Operators Bruno Iochum, Mathematics, Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Impact of Stellar Feedback on Molecular Clouds Stella Offner, UMass,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Open Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Richard Nixon and the American Space Program John M. Logsdon, Professor Emeritus , Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	James J. Bock - Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids Amir Yacoby, Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, May 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Geometric engineering, Mirror symmetry and 6d (1,0) to 4d N=2 Dan Xie, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Electrodynamic Effects of Inflationary Gravitons Richard Woodard, University of Florida,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Cosmic Neutrinos and Large-scale Structure Marilena Loverde, Postdoctoral Fellow, KICP, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Teichmüller space is rigid Kasra Rafi, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 DMRG Study of a Quantum Hall system Scott Geraedts, Graduate Student, Condensed Matter Theory, Caltech,

Monday, May 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Models with dilepton + jets final states at the LHC Joshua Berger, SLAC,

Tuesday, May 12
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Using the BayesWave algorithm to detect and characterize binary black hole mergers without waveform templates Meg Millhouse, Physics, Montana State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Estimating outcome probabilities of quantum circuits using quasiprobabilities Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Navigating Space-Time with Ultrafast Exciton Photolithography or Scintillating Near-fields to Follow Dynamic Processes in Molecular Materials Naomi S. Ginsberg, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

Wednesday, May 13
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Almost treeability Robin Tucker-Drob, NSF Mathematical Science Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Extragalactic Archeology Charlie Conroy, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Semnar On the structure of the spectrum of small sets Alejandro Morales, Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Crossed Product Extensions of Spectral Triples Bruno Iochum, Mathematics, Aix Marseille Universite, CNRS et Universite de Toulon,

Thursday, May 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Neutrinos are Everywhere Joseph D. Lykken, Theoretical Physicist, Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Vanishing theorems for mixed Hodge modules and applications Junecue Suh, Assistant Professor, PBSci-Mathematics Department, UC Santa Cruz,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Exploration: The Globe and Beyond Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Fire and Ice: Exploring Volcanoes on Earth and the Solar System Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Senior Research Scientist, Manager for Planetary Science, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Friday, May 15
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Effect of Higher Derivatives on the Schwarzschild Solution Kelly Stelle, Imperial College,
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Entanglement entropy and phases of gauge theories Djordje Radicevic, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Fields Medalist Stanislav Smirnov The Ising Model of a Ferromagnet from 1920 to the Present Day Stanislav Smirnov, Professor of Mathematics, University of Geneva; St. Petersburg State University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Transport of Flavored Neutrinos in Astrophysical Environments Alexey Vlasenko, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UCSD,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Ryan Mishmash, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,

Monday, May 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Single Engineered Donor Atoms with Nuclear and Electron Spin Readout for Quantum Bits David N. Jamieson, Professor of Physics, Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), School of Physics, University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 How well can we test pre-inflationary physics? Matthew Johnson, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Tuesday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Color of Kilonovae: Electromagnetic Signatures of Compact Object Mergers Daniel Kasen, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Carl Melis, UCSD,

Wednesday, May 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Nonabelian Generalized Lax pairs, Post-Lie Algebras and Related Operadic Structures Xiang Ni, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and Their Implications for Accretion Flows, Broad Line Regions, and Winds Niel Brandt, Penn State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar On the structure of the spectrum of small sets Kaave Hosseini, Mathematics, UCSD,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Katherine T. Faber - Watching Paint Dry and Colors Fade: The Intersection of Art and Science Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Galaxy in a new light: Gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes Werner Hofmann, Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, Germany,

Friday, May 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 String-Scale SUSY Breaking: Clues for the Low – l CMB ? Augusto Sagnotti, CERN, Scuola Normale Superiore, INFN-Pisa,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Physics of Radiation-Driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei Daniel Proga, Professor, Department of Physics, UNLV,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Memorial Service for Gerry Neugebauer, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Physics, Emeritus Dabney Hall, Garden of the Associates
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Engineering Quantum Matter: From Superfluids to Low-Dimensional Electrons Johannes Pollanen, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Eisenstein Group, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Development of an ensemble-based, triggerable single photon source Kate Ferguson, Research School of Physics & Engineering, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Scott Ransom, NRAO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantum Dots – Artificial Atoms, Large Molecules or Small Pieces of Bulk? Insights from Time-Domain Ab Initio Studies Oleg V. Prezhdo, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science, University of Southern California,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 First results from DarkSide-50 Maria Monzani, Stanford,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Caltech OSA Student Chapter & the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science Annenberg 105 X-ray Lasers: From Star Wars to the Table-Top Joseph Nilsen, Physicist, Fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 27
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Logic Seminar Kellogg 307 Menger compacta as projective Fraisse limits with emphasis on dimension one Slawomir Solecki, Professor, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmological Calorimetry: The nature of the intergalactic medium and the photon underproduction crisis Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar When Algebraic Geometry Meets Graph Theory Mohamed Omar, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Harvey Mudd,

Thursday, May 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Alan Guth, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics and MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT,

Friday, May 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Replica-symmetry-breaking instantons in glassy systems Sho Yaida, Duke University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The BCJ double copy and Kerr-Schild metrics Donal O'Connell, University of Edinburgh,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Tian Yang, Szego Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Coding with Finite Resources Mario Berta, Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Preskill Group, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain Marius Lemm, Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Anomalous Lieb-Robinson Bounds in an XY Spin Chain Nestor Guillen, U Mass Amherst,