Monday, November 2
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course Beckman Institute Auditorium Fundamentals of Optical Frequency Comb Technology and Applications
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Fast Solvers for the High-Frequency Helmholtz Equation Assistant Professor Leonardo Andrés Zepeda Núñez, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recursive Jigsaw Reconstruction in HEP complex event topologies Chris Rogan, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar P=W for nodal curves Michael McBreen, C L E Moore Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,

Tuesday, November 3
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Exploring astrophysics with Gravitational Waves Jonah Kanner, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 CORRELATED WORLDLINE THEORY of QUANTUM GRAVITY: LOW-ENERGY CONSEQUENCES & TABLE-TOP TESTS Philip Stamp, Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Mark Swain, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The Chemical Distance in Critical Percolation Phillippe Sosoe, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Single Cell 42-plex Cytokine Analysis: From Normal Immune Defense to Autoimmunity Rong Fan, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering , Yale University,

Wednesday, November 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Subdiffusive concentration in First-Passage Percolation Phillippe Sosoe, Mathematics, Harvard University,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Gapped Fermionic Phases of Matter and Spin Structures Anton Kapustin, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, PMA, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing the Evolution of Solids in Protoplanetary Disks Sean Andrews, CfZ Harvard,
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Light, Atomic Clocks, and Testing Einstein's Assumptions Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Dr. John L. Hall, JILA, University of Colorado and NIST,

Thursday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Surprises in (strong/non linear) gravity Luis Lehner, Perimeter Institute,

Friday, November 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 No Transmission Principle in Holography Netta Engelhart, UCSB,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quiver gauge theories, TQFT and integrable lattice models Junya Yagi, Univ of Warsaw,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 How gas accretion and galactic outflows affect galaxies and their haloes Freeke van de Voort, Joint TAC-ASIAA Fellow, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley / ASIAA,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Toward physical realizations of information-theory models for small-scale thermodynamics Nicole Yunger Halpern, Graduate Student, Preskill Group,
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Learning Seminar Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures (II) Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Peter Feller, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Boston College,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Learning Seminar CM Abelian Varieties over C and their Hodge Structures Brian Hwang, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, November 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Mixing Light and Sound in Nanophotonic Circuits Peter T. Rakich, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Perverse sheaves on arc spaces and local L-factors Alexis Bouthier, Morrey Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LHCb results on tetra- and penta-quark candidates Tomasz Skwarnicki, Syracuse University,

Tuesday, November 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Entanglement entropy from thermodynamic entropy in one higher dimension Mohammad Maghrebi, JQI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Recent developments in graph Ramsey theory David Conlon, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of OXford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Low Energy Muon Production For Future Muon experiments Yu Bao, UC Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Fishing for Spectral Lines in the (Lensed) High-z Universe Dr. Adi Zitrin, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Instability and exponential dichotomy of Hamiltonian PDE Chongchun Zeng, Professor, Mathematics, Georgia Tech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Good Quotients of Spectral Triples Branimir Cacic, Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Texas A & M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The asteroseismic revolution of red giant stars: from stellar interiors to the structure of the Milky Way Dennis Stello, Univ. Sydney,

Thursday, November 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Taylor coefficients of L-functions for function fields Zhiwei Yun, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) SPECIAL DIVISION SEMINAR -- See the Sound: In Search of the Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves Mansi Kasliwal, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Friday, November 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Which quantum field theories have emergent gravity? Shamit Kachru, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 314 Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 1 of 2 Gil Cohen, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Compact object mergers with spinning neutron stars Will East, Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept of Physics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Cohomology of algebraic varieties Xinwen Zhu, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Cable space surgeries via jointly primitive presentations of knots Olga Plameneuskaya, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Stony Brook,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 The quenched-induced geometric Hall response Justin Wilson, Postdoctoral Scholar,

Monday, November 16
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 The Application of Cryogenic Rare Earth Ion Dopants for Quantum Information and Biomedical Imaging Jevon Longdell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Otago, New Zealand,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Logarithmic geometry and some applications Mattia Talpo, Post Doc, Mathematics, UBC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Definite surfaces and alternating links Josh Greene, Professor, Mathematics, Boston College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Prospects of direct search for dark photons and dark Higgs in p+A collisions at Fermilab E-1067/SeaQuest experiment Ming Liu, LANL,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A higher-height lift of Rohlin's Theorem: on \eta^3 Mike Hill, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 17
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Detecting topological order in the Heisenberg pictureWe introduce a numerical method for identifying topological order in two-dimensional models based on one-dimensional bulk operators. The idea is to identify approximate symmetries supported on thin str David Poulin, University of Sherbrooke,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Measurement of the Ar(n,p)Cl cross section below 50 MeV Nick Walsh, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Knot homologies and their deformations Paul Wedrich, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Johanna Teske, Dept. of Terrestrial Magnetism - CIW,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding the chemical processes that affect growth rates of atmospheric nanoparticles James N. Smith, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The GRACE Follow-On Laser Ranging Interferometer Brent Ware, JPL,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	The Space Connection: Navigating the Bridge between JPL and the Caltech Campus Beckman Institute Auditorium

Wednesday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Compact manifolds with integral bounds on the negative part of Ricci curvature and the Kato class Christian Rose, Professor, Mathematics, Technische Universitat Chemnitz & UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Numerically detectable spectrum: why there exists no constructive proof of Wiener's 1/f theorem Nikolai Nikkolski, Professeur Emérite, Mathematics, Bordeaux/ Steklov Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Evolution of the ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies Jin Koda, Stonybrook,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ellen Rothenberg - Choosing the T-Cell Profession: Higher Education for Stem Cells Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar the Geometry Near Infinity of shrinking Ricci Solitons Bennett Chow, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Some degenerate Whittaker functions for Sp_n(R) Stephen Kudia, Mathematics, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Einstein's Equations From Entanglement Brian Swingle, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Friday, November 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 What is Temperature of a Pure State? Jared Kaplan, Johns Hopkins University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The X-ray through optical fluxes of Tidal Disruption Events Nathan Roth, Graduate Student, Dept of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Absolute Hodge Cycles Matthias Flach, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Laura Starkson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Atom-atom interactions in an ‘Alligator' photonic crystal waveguide Jonathan Hood, Graduate Student, Kimble Group,

Monday, November 23
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 High energy analysis at KamLAND and application to dark matter search Michinari Sakai, University of Hawaii,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The syzygies of some thickenings of determinantal varieties Claudiu Raicu, Instructor, Mathematics, Norte Dame,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmological Seed Magnetic Field from Inflation Bharat Ratra, Kansas State,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Membrane Geometry and Multi-Scale Dynamics Hamid Noori, University of Heidelberg,

Tuesday, November 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) A new paradigm for binary black-hole spin precession Michael Kesden, Professor, Department of Physics, UTDallas,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Two-Source Dispersers for Polylogarithmic Entropy and Improved Ramsey Graphs - part 2 of 2 Gil Cohen, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab SuYin Wang, Femilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Taussky-Todd Memorial Lecture in Mathematics In a shadow of the Riemann Hypothesis: Approximation Problems on the Hilbert Multidisc Nikolai Nikolski, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Bordeaux,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Colloidal Structures from Unexpected Interactions: From Dielectric Many-Body Effects to Non-Equilibrium Phase Behavior Erik Luijten, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering; Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,

Wednesday, November 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The LOFAR EoR project: science goals, foregrounds, processing challenges and status Ger de Bruyn, Univ of Groningen,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Carlson-Landau inequalities and magnetic Schrödinger operators Ari Laptev, Professor, Mathematics, Imperial College London and Mittag-Leffler Institute,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Semnar TBA Jed Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, Mathematics, University of Minnesota,

Monday, November 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar TBA Sam Gunningham, Postdoc, Mathematics, UT Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Interpreting Cosmic Ray Signals "Energy-peak" Way Doojin Kim, Univ of Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Combinatorics Semnar Polynomials vanishing on Cartesian products Orit Raz, PhD Student, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The Joint LA Topology Seminar