Monday, October 3
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies - Short Course Beckman Institute Auditorium What is Exploration Telepresence and How Can it Help Us Explore Planetary Surfaces of the Solar System?
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Graph Cohomology via Toric Geometry Dagan Karp, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Naturalness from a Composite Top? Yue Zhao, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, October 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Fractional Borel Chromatic Numbers Connor Meehan, PhD Candidate, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Discovering Chemistry From First Principles: The Ab Initio Nanoreactor Todd Martinez, Ehrsam and Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, October 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Sharp Lieb–Thirring inequalities on the continuum and related spectral inequalities for Jacobi operators Lukas Schimmer, Harry Bateman Research Instructor , Department of Mathematics , California Institute of Technology,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence for Quantum Spectral Curves Yan Soibelman, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Operational Thoughts on Data Driven Decision Making Beckman Institute Auditorium

Thursday, October 6
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	SPECIAL TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Evolution of Supernova Remnants near the Galactic Center Almog Yalinewich, Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing and Quantum Cognition Matthew P.A. Fisher, KITP/UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, October 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 From Hexagons to Heptagons: Bootstrapping Seven-Point Amplitudes in Planar N=4 super-Yang Mills Theory Andrew McLeod, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Complete Reionization Constraints from Planck 2015 Polarization Chen He Heinrich, KICP Graduate Student, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The unlikely intersection theory and the cosmetic surgery Conjecture BoGwang Jeon, Ritt Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 An Odd-Parity Hidden Order in a Perovskite Iridate Revealed Using Nonlinear Optics Liyuan Zhao, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in Experimental Physics, Hsieh Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar L^p norms of eigenfunctions and Kakeya-Nikodym averages Matthew Blair, Associate Professor , Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Mexico,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Ioannis Angelopoulos, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall Cosmic Explosions through the Ages: Supernovae Seen with the Naked Eye Jacob Jencson, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Monday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Experimental tests of vacuum energy Csaba Csaki, Cornell University,

Tuesday, October 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Sofic groups Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Topological quantum field theory and geometric invariants Yongbin Ruan, William Fulton Collegiate Professor, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan LSA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Multipartite Multichannel Interferometry for Quantum Information Processing Barry Sanders, University of Calgary,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Some Equivalence Relations without the Mycielski Property William Chan, Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence Yongbin Ruan, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

Wednesday, October 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Global Bifurcations and Coherent States in Nonlinear Wave Equations Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Nanophotonic Quantum Networks in Diamond Alp Sipahigil, Senior Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN Julie Comerford, Colorado,

Thursday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Integrated Modeling of GMT Dr. Antonin Bouchez, GMTO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) New Topological Phases of Matter: Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions Zahid Hasan, Professor of Physics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Symmetry Through Geometry Nalini Joshi, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, University of Sydney,

Friday, October 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Seiberg-Witten theory as a Fermi gas Alba Grassi, ICTP Trieste,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quasilocal free energy in GR: Positivity and monotonicity Wolfgang Wieland, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Relativistic effects on LSS: power spectrum and bispectrum Enea Di Dio, Postdoctoral Fellow, INAF-OATS (Trieste Observatory),
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar A monopole invariant for foliations without transverse measure Boyu Zhang, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Harvard University,

Monday, October 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar NonLERFness of arithmetic hyperbolic manifold groups Hongbin Sun, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon PDF. Aneesh Manohar, UCSD,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/USC/UCLA Joint Topology Seminar Equivariant Floer homology Sucharit Sarkar, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Tuesday, October 18
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Prospects for Gravitational Wave Searches for Core-Collapse Supernovae within the Local Universe Jasmine Gill, Department of Physics, ERAU,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Thompson's group F is not strongly amenable Pooya Vahidi Ferdowsi, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Bounds for Finite Linear Groups: From Jordan and Minkowski to a Question of Serre Michael Collins, Emeritus Professor, Mathematics, Oxford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Lateral lipid organization in model membranes Peter Tieleman, Professor of Biochemistry, Biocomputing Group, The University of Calgary,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Fate of Axion Stars Hong Zhang, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Overview and Status of the GMT Site, Enclosure and Facilities Design and Development Dr. Bruce Bigelow, Giant Magellan Telescope Organization,

Wednesday, October 19
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Topics in Matrix Inequalities Rupert Frank, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The MUSCLES Treasury Survey: An X-ray to IR Spectral Survey of Low-Mass Exoplanet Host Stars Kevin France, U. Colorado,

Thursday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Eric Chauvin & Dave Ashby , GMTO,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Broadening the Searchlight: New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection Kathryn Zurek, LBNL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Special cycles on non-compact Shimura varieties Zavosh Amir-Khosravi, Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, October 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Destructive Birth of Massive Stars and Massive Star Clusters Anna Rosen, Graduate Student, UC Santa Cruz,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Hrant Hakobyan, Mathematics Department, Kansas State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 2D to 1D Oxide interfaces: superconductivity, magnetism and ballistic transport effects Alon Ron, Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group,

Monday, October 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmology & Effective Field Theories: Higgs Evolution in Inflation and Large Scale Structure Kathyrn Zurek, LBNL,

Tuesday, October 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar - please note date & time Zeta polynomials for modular forms Ken Ono, Mathematics & Computer Science, Emory University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 265 Observing coating Brownian noise in silicon optics at the zero-expansion point Johannes Eichholz, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Memorial Service & Reception for Tom Apostol Athenaeum, Main Lounge
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Adiabatic optimization versus diffusion Monte Carlo Stephen Jordan, NIST,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Logical aspects of profinite groups André Nies, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Seminar of the Walter Burke Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Einstein Papers Project Einstein Papers Project, 363 S. Hill Ave. Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes Lars Brink, Professor Emeritus, Chalmers University of Technology; Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Directed assembly in liquid crystalline environments Juan J. de Pablo, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Fast radio bursts from across the Universe? Vikram Ravi, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups Nathan Kaplan, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Rustem Ismagilov - Diagnostics for Global Health and Antimicrobial Stewardship Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Mod p isogeny classes on Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure Rong Zhou, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Physics and Biology of Morphogenesis Boris Shraiman, Susan F. Gurley Professor of Theoretical Physics and Biology, Permanent Member of KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 314 Using Algebraic Geometry for Computer Vision Joe Kileel, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hasse Principle for multinorm equations Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,

Friday, October 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum computing and topological invariants Stephen Jordan, NIST,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Welzl's Theorem on Graph Homomorphisms Jalex Stark, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Simulating Galactic Winds on Supercomputers Using "Cholla" Evan Schneider, Graduate Student, University of Arizona,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Realization of prism manifolds by integer surgery William Ballinger & Tynan Ochse, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,

Monday, October 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Partially Acoustic Dark Matter, Interacting Dark Radiation, and Large Scale Structure Yuhsin Tsai, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Kerr Comb Generation: Dark Pulse Mode-locking in Normal Dispersion Microresonators Andrew M. Weiner, Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University,