Thursday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Atom interferometers measuring the fine structure constant and probing the dark sector Holger Müller, Assistant Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, October 2
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Pulsar timing limit on gravitational waves necessitates re-think of binary supermassive black hole evolution Vikram Ravi, Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept of Astronomy, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots Ken Baker, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Miami,

Monday, October 5
9:30 am - 3:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course South Mudd 365 Observing Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle from Space
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Calculations in Dirac Gaugino Models: Operators, Expansions, and Effects Jessica Goodman, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, October 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Gapped boundaries, group cohomology and fault-tolerant logical gates Beni Yoshida, Perimeter Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Electromagnetic counterparts of neutron star mergers and the origin of heavy elements Kenta Hotokezaka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Vibrational Signatures of Electronic Properties in Energy and Biology Ryan P. Steele, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,

Wednesday, October 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the structure of band edges of 2d periodic elliptic operators Ilya Kachkovsky, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Toward mathematical characterization of "topological" phases of matter Alexei Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, October 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar On a Filtration of CH0 for an Abelian Variety A Valia Gazaki, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Winding Road to Topological Insulators Eugene Mele, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania,

Friday, October 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum Hydrodynamics from Large-N Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Peter Koroteev, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Sweating the small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies, ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, and their own tiny satellites Coral Wheeler, Graduate Student, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Corrin Clarkson, Zorn Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Indiana University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Superconductivity in Uranium and Plutonium revealed by NMR Andrew Mounce, Los Alamos National Labs/Sandia Labs,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Ben Krause, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Bartosz Trojan, Mathematics, University of Wroclaw,

Monday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar K-Stability for Fano Varieties with Torus Action Nathan Ilten, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Simon Fraser University,

Tuesday, October 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Recovering elliptic curves from their p-torsion Jacob Tsimmerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Surrogate Models of Numerical Relativity Binary Black Hole Waveforms Jonathan Backman, TAPIR, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Andre-Oort and other problems in Unlikely intersections Jacob Tsimerman, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Toronto,

Wednesday, October 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Regularity theory for fully nonlinear integro-differential equations Tianling Jin, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Tuning the Clock: Making Sense of Stellar Rotation with Kepler Jennifer van Saders, Carnegie,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Paul Weissman - Back to the Beginning: The Rosetta Comet Rendezvous Mission Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 15
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Furstenberg-Poisson boundary 101 Omer Tamuz, Assistant Professor of Economics, Humanities and Social Science, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The powerful magnetic fields of red giant stars Jim Fuller, Postdoctoral Scholar in the TAPIR Group, Caltech,

Friday, October 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Looking for a Bulk Point David Simmons-Duffin, IAS & Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Tests of strong gravity with compact objects Emanuele Berti, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Algebraic Knots, Upsilon invariant and optimal cobordisms Shida Wang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Indiana University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library New Cryogenic Targets for Nuclear Physics David Kendellen, Postdoctoral Scholar, TUNL, Duke University,

Monday, October 19
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Applied & Computational Mathematics Annenberg 213 A Hybrid Framework with Analysis for Stochastic Wave Propagation Models Mahadevan Ganesh, College of Engineering & Computational Sciences, Colorado School of Mines,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantum Chemical Games of Life Ali Alavi, FRS, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Strange duality of Conformal Blocks Swarnava Mukhopadhyay, Brin Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Distinguishing the new physics via the correlation of the single Higgs and double Higgs production Hao Zhang, UC Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, October 20
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electronic Stopping under Proton Irradiation: Understanding Electronic Excitation Dynamics using First-Principles Theory Yosuke Kanai, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The complex geometry of Teichmüller spaces and bounded symmetric domains Stergios Antonakoudis, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,

Wednesday, October 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Dimension reduction for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates with anisotropic confinement Christof Sparber, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Holographic Entropy Cone Ning Bao, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Future of Astronomy is Super(conducting): Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for UVOIR Astronomy Ben Mazin, UCSB,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Analysis of a Classical Matrix Preconditioning Algorithm Leonard Schulman, Professor of Computer Science, Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech,

Thursday, October 22
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Unexpected distribution phenomenon resulting from Cantor series expansions Dylan Airey, Undergraduate Student, Mathematics, University of Texas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: TeachWeek Keynote by Eric Mazur East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The motivic class of the complement of arrangements associated to finite groups Ivan Marino, SNSF- Post Doc, Mathematics, University of Fribourg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference - TeachWeek Keynote Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Confessions of a Converted Lecturer Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA Matthew Weidner, Undergraduate, Caltech,

Friday, October 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 On the shape dependence of entanglement entropy Dean Carmi, Tel Aviv University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Evolution of baryons in the high-redshift universe Hamsa Padmanabhan, Research Scholar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar An Introduction to Mumford-Tate groups Emad Nasrollahpoursamami, Grad Student, mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Jianfeng Lin, Graduate Student, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale Surjeet Rajendran, UC Berkelely,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar What makes a neural code convex? Nora Youngs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,

Tuesday, October 27
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Crackle, crackle little blade: experimental investigations of mechanical up conversion in Advanced LIGO suspensions Gabriele , Vajente, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological Phases in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems Alexey Gorshkov, NIST/JQI,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Predictive Methods for Catalyst and Materials Optimization Paul M. Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Stability of Causal Inference Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium In Quest of Low Mass Planets in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan, Penn. State Univ.,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Space Entrepreneurship Panel Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Profits in the Final Frontier: Entrepreneurial Pursuits in Space

Wednesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Gang Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain George Djorgovski, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar TBA Zeev Dvir, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics, Princeton,

Thursday, October 29
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Local spectral gap in simple Lie groups Adrian Ioana, Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA M. Hadi Hedayatzadeh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Purdue,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Experiments Big and Small Savas Dimopoulos, The Hamamoto Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University,

Friday, October 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories Aleksey Cherman, Univ of Washington, Seattle,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Wave Excitation by Turbulent Stellar Convection Daniel Lecoanet, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Special HEP Seminar Lauritsen 469 The sPHENIX Detector at RHIC Dr. Craig Woody, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Lab,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Gauge theory on G2-manifolds Thomas Walpushi, C L E Moore Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics Bassam Helou, Graduate Student, Yanbei Chen's Group,