Thursday, January 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Detecting and coupling quantum objects with quantum light Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, January 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 K3 String Theory, Lattices, and Moonshine Sarah Harrison, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Wizards vs. Time Machines Jalex Stark, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric Ian Zemke, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Practical, Reliable Error Bars in Quantum Tomography Philippe Faist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Brandao Group,

Tuesday, January 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Quantum Ramsey Numbers: a Probabilistic Method Approach to Operator Systems Jalex Stark, California Institute of Technology,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Searching for Quantum Geometry with the Fermilab Holometer Jonathan Richardson, Physics, University of Chicago,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Drainage solutions for quantum systems Victor Albert, PhD Candidate, Liang Group, Yale,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Dan Stern, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Galois theory and the cohomology of arithmetic 3-manifolds Richard Taylor, Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,

Wednesday, January 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Chains of atoms coupled to a nanofiber waveguide Jean-baptiste Béguin, Postdoctoral Scholar, QUANTOP - Danish Center for Quantum Optics, Niels Bohr Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Spin and Magnetism in Small Stars Elisabeth Newton, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Asymptotics of the eigenvalues of operators for mirror curves Lukas Schimmer, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Thursday, January 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Non-Minimality of the Shift Graph Connor Meehan, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Generalized Kuga-Satake theory and good reduction properties of Galois representations Stefan Patrikis, Mathematics Department, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The next questions in neutrino physics Ryan Patterson, Assistant Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, January 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Moving the CFT into the bulk Mark Mezei, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Erdős distinct distances problem Felix Weilacher, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Magnetic field's travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma Siyao Xu, Peking University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Martingale methods in conformal mapping Oleg Ivrii, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Universe through X-ray Eyes Fiona Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,

Sunday, January 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Transfer Matrix Approach to Scaled Limits of Christo ffel-Darboux Kernels Jonathan Breuer, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Tuesday, January 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar A game-theoretic approach to Hjorth's turbulence theory Martino Lupini, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Stability of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation Andrew Comech, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Primary and secondary pairings for pseudodifferential symbols Alexander Gorokhovsky, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The polarized microwave background: ACTPol and beyond Jo Dunkley, Princeton,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	CANCELED: Victoria Orphan - Microbial Life Support: The Invisible Living Networks That Shape Our Oceans Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Todd Thompson, Ohio State Univ. ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) How I learned to stop worrying and to love both instantons and anti-instantons Nikita Nekrasov, Professor of Physics, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University,

Friday, January 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Indices, Particles, Surfaces, and Monsters Shu-Heng Shao, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar Some aspects of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds Tynan Ochse, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Twofold Symmetries of the Pure Gravity Action Grant Remmen, Graduate Student, Theoretical Physics, Hertz Fellow, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 How Small Can One Shrink a Laser? Jacob Khurgin, Professor, Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

Monday, January 23
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Spectroscopy, Chiral Analysis, and Quantum Manipulation of Cryogenically Buffered Polyatomic Molecules David Patterson, Ph. D, Senior Scientist, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties, I and II Kari Vilonen, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,

Tuesday, January 24
7:30 am - 9:00 pm	Politics and American Higher Education Ramo Auditorium
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Constructing topological models by symmetrization: A Projected Entangled Pair State study Norbert Schuch, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Visualizing Molecular Vibrations: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine Lu Wei, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Anti-basis results for graphs of infinite Borel chromatic number Zoltan Vidnyanszky, Mathematics Department, York University/University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Intergalactic Medium Near Reionization Prof. George Becker, UC Riverside,
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Politics and American Higher Education Ramo Auditorium

Wednesday, January 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A homological upper bound on critical probabilities for hyperbolic percolation Nicolas Delfosse, IQIM, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 213 A tutorial on metric learning with some recent advances Nakul Verma, Research Specialist, Janelia Research Campus HHMI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Frontiers of 2DIR Spectroscopy: From Protein Aggregation to Wide-Field Microscopy Arnaldo L. Serrano, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Unraveling the Mystery of the Ophiuchus Stellar Stream Branimir Sesar, MPIA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Open Quantum Subgroups and Induced Representations Mehrdad Kalantar, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston,

Thursday, January 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Logic Seminar Locally compact quantum groups, their subgroups, actions, boundaries and representation theory Mehrdad Kalantar, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar NOTE: Different Day than Usual Cahill 370 Recent progress of compact binary merger simulations in Kyoto group Kenta Kiuchi, Research Associate Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Imaging and remote sensing of other worlds Dimitri Mawet, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Logic Seminar Large scale geometry of homeomorphism groups Kathryn Mann, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, January 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black Holes and Random Matrices Guy Gur-Ari, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Undergraduate Math Club Seminar The Erdős Distinct Distances Problem Redux Sam Bardwell-Evans, Mathematics Department, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 213 Refined Sphere-Packing Bound and Moderate Deviation Analysis for Classical-Quantum Channels Hao-Chung Cheng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Three-quarters of the Sky, up to 120 kpc: Mapping the Galactic Halo in 3D with PS1 RR Lyrae Stars Branimir Sesar, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA),
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar TBA Kathryn Mann, Department of Mathematics , University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Local Master Equation for Small Temperatures Evgeny Mozgunov, Graduate Student, Kitaev Group,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) From photon correlation Fourier spectroscopy to surface plasmon lasers: fundamental studies and applications of colloidal quantum dots Jian Cui, Ph.D, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH, Zurich,

Monday, January 30
9:15 am - 5:15 pm	Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Frontiers in Computing + Mathematical Sciences
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Springer correspondence For symmetric Spaces and Hessenberg Varieties II Ting Xue, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Analogs of Irrational Rotation Algebras Acting on L^p-Spaces Eusebio Gardella, Mathematics Department, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Solid-state imaging detectors for low-energy particle physics Alvaro Chavarria, Kavli Institute/University of Chicago,

Tuesday, January 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Logic Seminar On the complexity of conjugacy of Toeplitz subshifts Todor Tsankov, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu–PRG, Université Paris Diderot,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar TBD Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Lecture - General Lecture Dynamics of Quadratic Polynomials, Complex and Real Mikhail Lyubich, Mathematics Department, Institute for Math Sciences at Stony Brook ,
4:00 pm - 2/6	16th Annual Wolff Memorial Lecture