Monday, February 1
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special CPS Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) From Photons to Excitons to Materials: Understanding Energetic Heterogeneity and its Role in Technology and Energy Transport Justin Caram, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Complexity Equals Action Adam Brown, Stanford University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Reading Seminar Computational and descriptive complexity Martino Lupini, Harry Bateman Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 2
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar The motivic Galois group of Abelian varieties of potential CM type II Majid Hadian-Jazi, Scott Russell Johnson Research Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Inference on gravitational waves from coalescences of stellar-mass compact objects and intermediate-mass black holes: an outlook of the current and future state of CBC parameter estimation Carl-Johan Haster, Physics, Birmingham,
3:00 pm - 4:00 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 Disequilibrium, Classicality and Complexity Charles Bennett, IBM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Polar Molecules Nick Hutzler, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 107 Efficient Spectral Methods for Learning Mixture Models Qingqing Huang, Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar GIT characterizations of Harder-Narasimhan filtrations Alfonso Zamora Saiz, Lecturer AY-Math, Mathematics, CSU Channel Islands,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Matt Turk, NCSA/Univ. of Illinoia,

Wednesday, February 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Rational approximation of functions with logarithmic singularities Alexander Pushnitski, King's College London,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Ground State Patterns and Phase Transitions for Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates, Numerics and Analysis Professor I-Liang Chern, Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library "Who triggered electroweak baryogenesis" Wei Chao, Research Fellow, Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing the Dawn of Galaxies Pascal Oesch, Yale,

Thursday, February 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Counting genus-2 curves with split Jacobians Everett Howe, Center for Communications Research,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Slopes of overconvergent modular forms over boundary of the weight space Ruochuan Liu, Professor, Mathematics, BICMR,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Large Hadron Collider: Awakening at the next energy frontier Anyes Taffard, Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Friday, February 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Fluid Manifesto: Topological sigma models and dissipative hydrodynamics Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with large-scale structure Fabian Schmidt, Scientific Staff Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA),
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Jonathan Hanselman, PhD student, Mathematics, UT Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Exponential Lifetime Improvement in Topological Quantum Memories Charles Edouard Bardyn, Postdoctoral Scholar, Condensed Matter Theory,

Monday, February 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar II_1 Factors with Non-isomorphic Ultrapowers Adrian Ioana, Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Maximal representations and projective structures on iterated sphere bundles Anna Wienhard, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics & Physics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Type Ia Supernovae and Heavy Metals From Dark Matter Joseph Bramante, Notre Dame University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Reading Seminar Computational and descriptive complexity Martino Lupini, Bateman Research Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Chern--Simons theory, surface separability, representation volumes, and dominations of 3-manifolds Shicheng Wang, Peking University,

Tuesday, February 9
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Learning Seminar An introduction to Weil groups Andrei Frimu, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Probing the universe on a table top experiment Atta Almasi, Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Revisiting the first-order theories of McDuff's II_1 factors Isaac Goldbring, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Compiling qubits Jon Yard, Microsoft,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Probing Small Planets at Several AU with Microlensing Dr. Jennifer Yee, Harvard-CfA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Polynomials representing primes James Maynard, Mathematical Institute, Magdalen College,

Wednesday, February 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 Level-Set Methods for Convex Optimization Michael Friedlander, Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Orbits and Atmospheres of Directly Imaged Exoplanets Quinn Konopacky, UC San Diego,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Gregg Hallinan - Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Frequency Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Creating Ultrabroadband Frequency Combs in the Infrared Konstantin Vodopyanov, 21st Century Scholar Chair & Professor of Optics & Photonics, and Physics, College of Optics, University of Central Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Novel Neurotechnologies: simultaneous 3D all-optical imaging and activation of neurons in living brains Rafael Yuste, M.D., PhD., Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University,

Friday, February 12
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Exponential Integrators of EPIRK-type: Construction, Analysis and Implementation Assistant Professor Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced ,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fivebranes and 3-manifold homology Pavel Putrov, IAS,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Abhijit Gadde, IAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Probing Gravity: CMB Lensing, Galaxies, and Intensity Mapping Anthony Pullen, McWilliams Postdoctoral Fellow, McWilliams Center for Cosmology, Carnegie Mellon University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Foliations and flow box decompositions Rachel Roberts, Professor, Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Primes with restricted digits James Maynard, Professor, Mathematical Institute, Magdalen College University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Primes with restricted digits James Maynard, Professor, Mathematical Institute, Magdalen College University of Oxford,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Cancellation for the multilinear Hilbert and simplex transforms Terence Tao, Professor, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, February 15
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	34th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 16
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	34th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Prashant K. Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events Hsin-Yu Chen, Physics, University of Chicago,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases. Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia,
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	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unmasking the Neutrino: The Standard Model and Beyond Diana Parno, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium AGN Host Galaxies, Fueling, and Feedback to z ~ 2 Prof. Alison Coil, UCSD,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The Arrow of Time Jurg Frohlich, Prof. Dr., Physics, IAS and ETH Z¨urich,

Wednesday, February 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Effective Dynamics in Quantum Theory Juerg Froehlich, Professor, Physics, ETH Zurich and IAS Princeton,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Seminar East Bridge 114 Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Noncommutative Rational Surfaces and Special Functions Eric Rains, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New frontiers in Cosmology Yacine Ali-Haimoud, John Hopkins,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Analysis on Fractal Manifolds and Noncommutative Geometry: A Tale of Metrics, Hausdorff Measures and Geodesics Michel Lapidus, Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and of Computer Science and Engineering, UCR,

Thursday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Simon White, MPA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Fundamental Lessons From String Theory Cumrun Vafa, Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, February 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Classical and Quantum Black Hole Hair Dieter Luest, LMU,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium EFT of large scale structure, symmetries and constraints Mehrdad Mirbabayi, IAS Scholar, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms Hannah Price, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento in Italy,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescope Evan Kirby, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, February 20
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Logic in Southern California

Tuesday, February 23
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Learning Seminar The 1-dimensional case: algebraic Hecke characters nathan Lawless, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Sharply 3-transitive groups Katrin Tent, Professor, Universität Münster,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Guineveve Kauffman, MPA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium First Results from Advanced LIGO Alan Weinstein, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops Lauren Zarzar, Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops, Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A drunk walk in a drunk world Ivan Corwin, Clay Research Fellow, Mathematics, Columbia University, Clay Mathematics Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LUX and LZ: Dark Matter Searches and Beyond Carmen Carmona-Benitez, UC Santa Barbara,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ripples in Spacetime: Our New Window on the Universe Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, February 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A family of monotone quantum relative entropies Julien Sabin, Mathematics, University Paris Orsay,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Kauffman Brackets on Surfaces Francis Bonahon, Professor, Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium THIS COLLOQUIUM HAS BEEN CANCELLED
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Stochastic quantum integrable systems Ivan Corwin, Associate Professor, IHP Poincare Chair Packard Fellow , Mathematics, Columbia,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Reconstruction of depth-3 circuits Gaurav Sinha, Grad Student, Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, February 25
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium nu Physics in the Early Universe Daniel Green, Assistant Professor, CITA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution Eric Betzig, HHMI Janelia Research Campus,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hurewicz isomorphisms for algebraic varieties Johannes Anschuetz, Professor, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg,

Friday, February 26
9:00 am - 4:30 pm	Science & Society Conference Beckman Auditorium
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Confronting the Standard Model with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Ryan Cooke, Hubble Fellow, Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U.C. Santa Cruz,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Heegaard Floer homology for tangles and cobordisms between them Akram Alishahi, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Casimir Effect, Theta Vacuum and Topological Order in QED Charles Cao, Graduate Student, Physics, Caltech,

Monday, February 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Energy Full Counting Statistics in Return to Equilibrium Jane Panangaden, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Directions in Bouncing Cosmologies Anna M. Ijjas, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Regularity and blow up in models of fluid mechanics Alexander Kiselev, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Rice University,