Tuesday, November 1
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Automating Interferometer Control and Noise Regression Eric Quintero, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Interactive Proofs for Quantum Computations Urmila Mahadev, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Current Progress in Density Functional Theories Donald G. Truhlar, Regents Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Amenability of discrete groups Kate Juschenko, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, November 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral shift functions and Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps Jussi Behrndt, Institut für Numerische Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Cosmic microwave background spectral distortions and their cosmological implications Siavash Yasini, Department of Physics and Astronomy, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cool and Luminous Transients from Merging Binary Stars Ondrej Pejcha, Princeton,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Artificial Intelligence Support of Rosetta Orbiter Science Operations Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Thursday, November 3
10:00 am - 11:00 am	CD3 Seminar Powell-Booth 100 (Seminar Room) Deep Learning: the promise and the pitfalls Ashish Mahabal, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Light from Darkness? Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky Tracy Slatyer, Jerrold R. Zacharias Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, November 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 3d N = 2 theories on circle bundles and the Bethe equations Brian Willett, KITP/UCSB,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exact solutions of N = (0 , 2) Landau - Ginzburg models Pavel Putrov, IAS,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Constraining Dark Physics with Simulations Oliver Elbert, Graduate Student, UC Irvine,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Summability condition and rigidity for finite type maps Matthieu Astorg, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Rare-earth ions in crystals for integrating quantum resources John Bartholomew, Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice Marta Kwiatkowska, Trinity College, Unversity of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Maximizers for Tomas Stein inequality Rupert Frank, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Joseph Viola, Mathematics Department, Universite de Nantes,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall How to Prepare for the Great American Eclipse of 2017 Erika Hamden, Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, Caltech,

Monday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Convex Polytopes and Local Models of Shimura Varieties Qiao Zhou, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD JiJi Fan, Ultralight Repulsive Dark Matter, Brown University,

Tuesday, November 8
10:00 am - 4:00 pm	JPL Research Poster Conference JPL
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 106 Brain-Computer Interface Systems and Emerging Directions Brendan Allison, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Kevin Schlaufman, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A new beginning for transient gravitational-wave astrophysics Vivien Raymond, Albert Einstein Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nanotechnology Meets Mechanobiology Young-wook Jun, Associate Professor, Programs in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Robotics for Space Exploration - Challenge to the Moon and Beyond Gates-Thomas 135

Wednesday, November 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Quantum Approximate Markov Chains and the Locality of Entanglement Spectrum Fernando Brandao, Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar A Gromov-Hausdorff Distance for Hilbert Modules Frederic Latremoliere, Mathematics Department, University of Denver,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Observing the faint universe in emission Erika Hamden, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Carol Raymond - Ceres: An Ancient Ocean World from the Dawn of the Solar System Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Electronic Nematicity in the Iron-Pnictide Superconductors Abhay Pasupathy, Associate Professor of Physics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar An approach to the Casselman-Jacquet functor Alexander Yom Din, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, November 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBD Callum Quigley, University of Toronto,
11:40 am - 1:00 pm	Veterans Day Celebration & Barbecue Lunch Beckman Mall
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar FERMAT'S LITTLE THEOREM AND EULER'S THEOREM IN THE GAUSSIAN INTEGERS Milan Roberson, California Institute of Technology,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography and the quantum renormalization group Elias Kiritsis, University of Crete,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography and the quantum renormalization group Elias Kiritsis, University of Crete,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Surprising Physics of Boundary Layer Accretion Mikhail Belyaev, TAC Fellow, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar The geometry of maximal representations in SO(2,3) Jeremy Toulisse, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Active Semiconductor Nanowire and Metafilm Devices Mark Brongersma, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Classification and simulation of quantum phases by symmetric tensor networks Shenghan Jiang, Graduate Student, Boston College,

Monday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Open Effective Field Theory for Deeply Inelastic Reactions Eric Braaten, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, November 15
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Guestimation of large angle scattering Hiroaki Yamamoto, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium A Proof of Onsager's Conjecture for the Incompressible Euler Equations Philip Isett, Mathematics Department, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia Univ.,

Wednesday, November 16
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar The Arithmetic of Special Values of L-functions Cristian D. Popescu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era, evidence for hybrid plasma? Andrew Fabian, Cambridge,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Polygonal C*-algebras and their K-theory Alina Vdovina, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Annenberg 213 A generalized Alon-Boppana bound and weak Ramanujan graphs Fan Chung, Mathematics Department, UC San Diego,

Thursday, November 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Measure-preserving group actions and the Lov\'asz Local Lemma Anton Bernshteyn, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Hodge-Newton Filtration for p-divisible groups of Hodge type Serin Hong, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum mechanics ?and geometry of spacetime Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study,

Friday, November 18
All Day	Symposium to Celebrate the 75th Birthday of John Schwartz Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy Games Entangled State Dimension Chinmay Nirkhe, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Defects in Optically Active Semiconductors for Quantum Applications Kai-Mei Fu, Assistant Professor, Physics and Electrical Engineering , Department of Physics, University of Washington,
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Growth and singularity in 2D fluids Andrej Zlatos, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 What is the contribution of blazars to the IceCube neutrino flux? Maria Petropoulou, Einstein Post Doctoral Fellow, Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Measurement protocols for entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra of cold atoms Hannes Pichler, AMP, Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar On the Pin(2)-equivariant monopole Floer homology of plumbed 3-manifolds Irving Dai, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus The weak solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations Cheng Yu, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Off Campus Superradiance initiated inside the ergoregion Gregory Eskin, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, November 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Entanglement Spectroscopy of Quantum Many-body Systems Guanyu Zhu, Joint Quantum Institute (NIST-University of Maryland),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Moore B280 Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach. Christoph Flamm, Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Annenberg 105 Multisymplectic HDG methods Ari Stern, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Washington University in St. Louis,

Tuesday, November 22
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Multimessenger Astronomy in the First Two Years of Advanced LIGO Alex Urban, LIGO, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 A unified treatment of tidal disruption by Schwarzschild black holes Mike Kesden, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Dallas,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Separating quantum communication complexity and approximate log-rank Ankit Garg, Postdoctoral Scholar, Microsoft Research, New England,

Tuesday, November 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Aqueous Flow Through Two-Dimensional Crystals Joel Eaves, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Marcia Rieke, Univ. of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy Steve Cundiff, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan,

Wednesday, November 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Theory Sum Rules, Meromorphic Herglotz Functions and Large Deviations Barry Simon, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Speaker: Omri Azencot, Ph.D. candidate at the Technion (Israel) Title: Operator Representations in Geometry Processing and Applications Annenberg 105 Computing and Mathematicals Sciences Seminar Omri Azencot, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Operator Representations in Geometry Processing and Applications Annenberg 105 Computing and Mathematicals Sciences Seminar Omri Azencot, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium ALMA Observations of Galaxy Evolution and Arp 220 Nick Scoville, Caltech,