Monday, May 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Koszul Rings and DG Algebras Adam Bocher, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Reading seminar on: Computational and descriptive complexity Random graphs and 0-1 laws Martino Lupini, Harry Bateman Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A careful comparison between collider and direct WIMP searches Francesco D'Eramo, UC Santa Cruz,

Tuesday, May 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar An Overview of Generalized Hat Problems Connor Meehan, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Terahertz Driven Linear Acceleration and X-ray Sources Franz X. Kartner, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Lecture 1: Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 1 Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Computing Isomorphisms between Finite Fields using Elliptic Curves (pt 2 of 2) Anand Kumar Narayanan, Postdoctoral Scholar, CMS, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar - CANCELLED The spectral theory of multiboundary wormholes Shaun Maguire, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Actions of Amenable Groups on the Cantor Set and the Classification of their Crossed Products David Kerr, Mathematics Department, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Biard Lecture Jo Bovy, Univ of Toronto,

Thursday, May 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nambu-Goldstone bosons, dark pions, and effective operators Hitoshi Murayama, UC Berkeley and Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) When a Symmetry Breaks Hitoshi Murayama, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley and Director, Institute for the Physics and Math of the Universe (IPMU), Tokyo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Wild symbols in local class field theory Michiel Kosters, Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,

Friday, May 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 Phonons and rotons in liquid helium Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Nonlinear Tides in Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars Nevin Weinberg, Assistant Professor , Physics, MIT,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Unsmoothable group actions on one-manifolds Thomas Koberda, Mathematics, Univeristy of Virginia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2 Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics & Applied Math, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Lecture 2: Sets of Measure Zero and the Converse to Rademacher's Theorem: Part 2 Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics & Applied Math, Yale University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Jordan Greenblatt, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, May 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 De Sitter Wavefunctionals and the Resummation of Time Matthew Baumgart, Rutgers University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Segre classes of monomial schemes and Segre zeta functions Paolo Aluffi, Mathematics, Florida State University,

Tuesday, May 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematics Graduate Student Seminar Algebraic Theories and Duality Ronnie Chen, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar An invariant set-theoretic approach to "no analytic mad families Asger Törnquist, Mathematics, University of Copenhagen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Developing experiments to visualize the dynamics of biomolecular recognition and binding Andrei Tokmakoff, Henry G. Dale Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Lecture 3: New Results on Bounded, Complete Minimal Surfaces Peter Jones, Professor, Mathematics & Applied Math, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami, CfA,

Wednesday, May 11
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Geometric picture for scattering amplitudes Jaroslav Trnka, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Toward an Understanding of Exoplanetary Composition Jonathan Fortney, UC Santa Cruz,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Thomas Miller - Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Proteins Get Where They're Supposed to Go in Cells Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers Ana Maria Rey, Fellow of JILA, NIST and Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, JILA,

Friday, May 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 4D N=1 Superconformal Bootstrap Andreas Stergiou, Yale University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Setting the Stage for the Era of Gravitational Wave Discovery Wen-fai Fong, Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Steward Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Arizona,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar How not to prove the smooth 4-dimensional Poincare conjecture David Gay, Associate Professor, Mathematics, University of Georgia,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars Jackie Villadsen, Graduate Student, Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, May 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Probing extended Higgs sector in the intensity and energy frontiers Chien-Yi Chen, University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute,

Tuesday, May 17
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	SoCal Grad Strings and Fields East Bridge 114
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Thin-film coatings for use in future gravitational wave detectors Peter Murray, IGR, University of Glasgow ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Group IV two-dimensional materials: Novel electronic and structural properties Angel Rubio, Professor and Director, Theory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxy Mergers on FIRE: Mapping Star Formation Prof. Jorge Moreno, Cal Poly Pomona,

Wednesday, May 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Indirect Coulomb Energy with Gradient Correction Elliott Lieb, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Princeton University,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Non-Commutative Geometry Seminar Vector Bundles for "Matrix Algebras Converge to the Sphere" Marc Rieffel, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Origins and Implications of Turbulence in Galaxies Blakesley Burkhart, Harvard,

Thursday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Cycles in the de Rham cohomology of abelian varieties over number fields Yunqing Tang, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Physics of Information Fernando Brandao, Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy Division, Caltech,

Friday, May 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chaos and the growth of operators Dan Roberts, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Distribution of Discriminants of Polynomials with Coefficients in a Finite Field Michael Seaman, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Cosmological Tests of Gravity Come of Age Tessa Baker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Univ of Oxford and Univ of Pennsylvania,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar On Thurston's Euler class one conjecture Mehdi Yazdi, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Unexpected effects in periodic driving of gapless topological systems Michael Kolodrubetz, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley,

Monday, May 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Results from Ice Cube Carlos Delgado, MIT,

Tuesday, May 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar TBA Brian Hwang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Aomawa Shields, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Relatively Few Rational Points Barry Charles Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Climate Change Impact on Past Civilizations: Lessons from Space Data and Archaeology Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Ronald G. Blom, Principal Scientist (Retired), Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, May 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Greenstein Lecture: Hearing the Stars: New Insights into Stellar Interiors from Asteroseismology Lars Bildsten, UC Santa Barbara,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Distinct perpendicular bisectors Ben Lund, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Rutgers,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Paul Rothemund - DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 26
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Ultrafilters and a problem of Ellis Andy Zucker, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Diophantine Stability Barry Mazur, Professor, Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Adventures in quantum optimization with noisy qubits Daniel Lidar, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemistry and Physics, USC,

Friday, May 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chiral algebra of Argyres-Douglas theory from M5 brane Wenbin Yan, Harvard University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Renormalized Volume Andrew Waldron, UC Davis,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Parametrizing general linear cosmological perturbations Macarena Lagos, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Imperial College London,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Yang Huang,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Many-body localization: a dynamical perspective Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus TBA Yifeng Yu, Professor, Mathematics, UC Irvine,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus TBA Joel Tropp, Professor, Applied & Computational Mathematics, Caltech,

Monday, May 30
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Decay of correlations and absence of superfluidity in the disordered Tonks-Girardeau gas Robert Seiringer, IST Austria,

Tuesday, May 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar TBA Artem Chernikov, Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Size-Driven Quantum Phase Transitions Johannes Bausch, University of Cambridge,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	"Tides of Gravity" Ramo Auditorium