Tuesday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 A new approach to strong convergence of random matrices Jorge Garza Vargas, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Axion interactions with Domain and Bubble Walls Isabel Garcia Garcia, University of Washington,

Wednesday, October 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Carrollian Partition Functions and the Flat Limit of AdS Richard Myers, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Hyperfiniteness of Borel graphs of slow intermediate growth Andrew Marks, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) When Data Is Not Enough: Illustrating Astrophysics for the Public Robert Hurt, Caltech/IPAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stars Disrupted, Destroyed and Coalesced Iair Arcavi, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,

Thursday, October 3
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Delta Conjecture and affine Springer fibers Eugene Gorsky, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Homological combinatorics of Lagrangian coamoebae Harold Williams, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum The scaling limit of the colored asymmetric simple exclusion process Milind Hegde, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) David Schlegel, LBL,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Inequalities for connectivity events in Bernoulli percolation Nikita Gladkov, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Properties of first passage percolation above the (hypothetical) critical dimension Ken Alexander, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Friday, October 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Dynamical Edge Modes and Entanglement in Gauge Theory Adam Ball, Perimeter Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum Simulations of Hadron Dynamics in the Schwinger Model using 112 Qubits Roland Farrell, Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Non-Thermal Emission Following Compact Objects Mergers Gilad Sadeh, Graduate Student, Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 PDE analysis on stable minimal hypersurfaces: curvature estimates and sheeting Costante Bellettini, Department of Mathematics, University College London,

Monday, October 7
8:15 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Quantifying Emissions through Greenhouse Gases and Transport Chen 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Weyl fermion on a finite lattice Srimoyee Sen, Iowa State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 3D Interstellar Medium structure challenges the Serkowski "law" & Hybrid Foreground Removal for CHIME 21 cm Cosmology Nikos Mandarakas, PhD student, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Haochen Wang, PhD student, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, October 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Probability threshold for group isomorphism Edward Hou, Mathematics Department, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Strings near the conformal boundary of AdS3. Vit Sriprachyakul, ETH Zurich,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Structurable equivalence relations and Lω1ωLω1ω interpretations Ronnie Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Anthropology of Merging Stars - Tracing the Evolution And Impact of Stellar Mergers with Time-Domain Surveys Viraj Karambelkar, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars Maria Drout, Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto,

Thursday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Atomic quantum processors and the error-correction frontier Dolev Bluvstein, Harvard University, ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Anticyclotomic Iwasawa theory for newforms at Eisenstein primes Mulun Yin, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, October 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Yang-Mills-Liouville Theory Tomasz Taylor, Northeastern University and University of Warsaw,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – October 11, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor ,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Exploring scientific frontiers in quantum error correction with reconfigurable atom arrays Dolev Bluvstein, Harvard University,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Michael Newman, Google, Kevin Satzinger, Google,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event How strong warps and strong magnetic fields upend the standard accretion disk paradigm Nick Kaaz, Graduate Student, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Finiteness of Totally Geodesic Hypersurfaces in Negative Curvature Ben Lowe, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The Voyager Mission to the Outer Planets and Interstellar Space Alan Cummings, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, October 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 A multimodal approach to uncovering magnetic symmetries: the case of EuIn2As2 Veronika Sunko, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Pulsed, Polarized and Sliced – Fundamental Ingredients in Neutron Precision Physics Floria Piegsa, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 A fast-cadenced search for gamma-ray burst orphan afterglows with the Deeper, Wider, Faster programme & A multimessenger, multiband view of compact binaries James Freeburn, PhD student, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Geoffrey Mo, PhD student, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT,

Tuesday, October 15
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar Annenberg 105 Pseudorandom unitaries, t-designs, and the incompressibility of random circuits Tony Metger, Graduate Student, ETH Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Uniqueness and continuous dependence of geometric flows and applications Richard Bamler, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Mapping Decoherence Pathways in Molecules Ignacio Franco, Professor of Physics, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester,

Wednesday, October 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event 2d theory for asymptotic dynamics of 4d (self-dual) Einstein gravity Wei Bu, Northeastern University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Measurable Brooks's Theorem for Directed Graphs Cecelia Higgins, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) DESI Y1 BAO Analysis: Reconstruction of Large-Scale Structures Using Optimal Transport Theory Farnik Nikakhtar, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Large-Scale Structure Cosmology: Opportunities in the Systematics-Limited Regime Elisabeth Krause, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 A categorical approach to Lyapunov stability Joseph Moeller, Mechanical & Civil Engineering Department, AMBER Lab, Caltech,

Thursday, October 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Relative Trace Formula and Uniform Non-vanishing of Hilbert Modular $L$-values Liyang Yang, Department of Mathematics, Princeton Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Chemical design of quantum systems Danna Freedman, MIT,

Friday, October 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Hierarchy from duality Kristan Jensen, University of Victoria,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Stability and loop models from decohering non-Abelian topological order Pablo Sala, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory Tsz Lok Lam, Graduate Student, AEI Potsdam,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Towards isomorphisms among Floer homologies Fan Ye, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,

Monday, October 21
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision Aaron Tohuvavohu,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Proving Quantum Thermalization of Translation-Invariant Systems at High Temperature. Soonwon Choi, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 Integral counts of pseudo-holomorphic curves and applications Shaoyun Bai, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Astrometric Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter Sarunas Verner, University of Florida,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 The exponential type conjecture for quantum connections Zihong Chen, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Echoes of the Big Bang" and "Search for Life in the Universe" Anastasia Yanchilina, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geochemistry, Caltech, Albert Wandui, Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, October 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event 3d gravity as a random ensemble Liza Rozenberg, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Hyperhyperfiniteness and complexity Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) The Origins of Close-in Brown Dwarfs from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution Steven Giacalone, Caltech,
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Operator Origin of Anomalous dimensions in de Sitter Space Yiwen Huang, UC San Diego,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 255 The Turán Density of 4-Uniform Tight Cycles Maya Sankar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Stable regime singularity for the Muskat problem Andrej Zlatos, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 255 Ordered Ramsey numbers of powers of paths Oliver Janzer, Trinity College, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 An entropic view of machine learning Akhil Premkumar, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Postdoc Lightning Talks Incoming Astronomy Postdocs and Research Scientists,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Bil Clemons: Combating Future Pandemics with Viruses Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 24
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 $p$-adic monodromy and mod $p$ unlikely intersections Ruofan Jiang, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 HOMFLYPT homology and categorical Heisenberg action Alexei Oblomkov, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Laser spectroscopy of a nucleus Eric Hudson, UCLA,

Friday, October 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Tensionless AdS_3/CFT_2 and Single Trace TTbar Andrea Dei, University of Chicago,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – October 25, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Title to be announced Doug Rennehan, Research Fellow, CCA, Flatiron Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 An iterable surgery formula for knot lattice homotopy Seppo Niemi-Colvin, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University,

Monday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event High Energy Scattering in Classical and Quantum Gravity Michael Saavedra, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Observing Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite / Mapping the Dynamics, Dark matter, and Dense clouds of the Galaxy
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Probing Correlated States in Semiconducting Moiré Superlattices with Microwave Impedance Microscopy Yongtao Cui, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, UC Riverside,

Tuesday, October 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Topology and category theory in quantum computing and condensed matter physics Milo Moses, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Marton's Polynomial Freiman--Ruzsa conjecture Frederick Manners, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Antihydrogen energy: techniques to control and measure Danielle Louise Hodgkinson, Postdoctoral Scholar, CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online Event The Arithmetic of Power Series and Applications to Period Yunqing Tang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Charged Superradiance in AdS5 x S5 black holes Chintan Patel, TIFR Mumbai/KITP,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 387 Instantaneous continuous loss of regularity for the SQG equation Wojciech Ożański, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Orbit equivalence classification of Baumslag-Solitar groups Antoine Poulin, Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Cosmological Constraints from Higher Order Patterns Lado Samushia, Kansas State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Beckman Institute 115 Designing Energy Conversion and Storage Structures Using Two-Dimensional Materials Zhengtang Luo, Professor and Program Director of MSc in Chemical and Energy Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Construction of multi-soliton solutions for semilinear equations in dimension 3 Istvan Kadar, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 255 Ordered Ramsey numbers of powers of paths Oliver Janzer, Trinity College, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Linguistic Structure from a Bottleneck on Sequential Information Processing Richard Futrell, Department of Language Science, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Next Decade of Discoveries with Radio Interferometry: Bringing Nature's Deepest Mysteries into View Michael Johnson, Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian,

Thursday, October 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Etching for Atomic Scale Semiconductor Devices Heeyeop Chae, Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU),
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Contact instantons and contact dynamics Yong-Geun Oh, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Ends of the uniform spanning tree on unimodular random rooted graphs Diederik van Engelenburg, Lyon University,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Stability conditions on surface root stacks Yeqin Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Robust dynamics and function in stochastic topological systems Evelyn Tang, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Towards an explicit Bezrukavnikov's equivalence in mixed characteristic Jize Yu, Department of Mathematics, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Vector-Valued Concentration on the Symmetric Group Miriam Gordin, Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Patterns and statistics in shifts of finite type Jacob Richey, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,