Monday, September 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Nonlocal Moments in the Chern Bands of Twisted Bilayer Graphene Patrick Ledwith, Quantum Condensed Matter, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Talk1 - A Cosmic Tango: Radio Galaxies Dance to Galaxy Cluster Tunes & Talk2 - Multimessenger Signals from Catastrophic Explosions in AGN Accretion Disks Emily Moravec, Assistant Scientist, Green Bank Observatory, Jin-Ping Zhu, OzGrav postdoctoral research fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University,

Tuesday, October 1
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,
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,

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	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) David Schlegel, LBL,
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,
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	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	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	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	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,
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,

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	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Chemical design of quantum systems Danna Freedman, MIT,
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.,

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	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Astrometric Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter Sarunas Verner, University of Florida,
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	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
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	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 The Turán Density of 4-Uniform Tight Cycles Maya Sankar, Department of Mathematics, Stanford 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 - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Postdoc Lightning Talks Incoming Astronomy Postdocs and Research Scientists,
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,
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	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,
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

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	Logic Seminar Online Event Orbit equivalence classification of Baumslag-Solitar groups Antoine Poulin, Mathematics & Statistics, McGill University,
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,
12:15 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 - 5:00 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,
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,

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,

Friday, November 1
8:30 am - 5:00 pm	Greater IPAC Technology Symposium Chen 100
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Multi-Twist Trajectories, Light Ray Wave Functions and the Missing Zeroes Alexandre Homrich, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Anyon quantum dimensions from an arbitrary ground state wave function Shang Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 The (fractional) Dehn twist coefficient and infinite-type surfaces Hannah Turner, School of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Stockton University,

Monday, November 4
8:15 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Digital Twins for Solar System Exploration Broad 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS Josh Bendavid, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	QUANTUM MATTER SEMINAR East Bridge 114 Dynamic Manipulation of Charge Density Waves Vidya Madhaven, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Classifying vector bundles on complex projective spaces Morgan Opie, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 The Prevalence of Distant Giant Companions to Inner Small Planets / Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope and other experiments Judah Van Zandt, Final-year Ph.D. student, Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Los Angeles, Tim Eifler, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, The University of Arizona,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Bohr-Sommerfeld surgeries on Lagrangian submanifolds Soham Chanda, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Tuesday, November 5
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Burke Institute Lecture Series Online and In-Person Event Introduction to turbulence for physicists Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold Michael Newman, Google, Kevin Satzinger, Google,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Linde Hall 310 Using Math to Invent Solutions to Large-Scale Human Problems, Just in Time to Survive AI Po-Shen Loh, Mathematical Science, Carnegie Mellon University,

Wednesday, November 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Quantum gravity corrections to absorption and emission of 4d near-extremal black holes in supergravity and Einstein gravity Anna Biggs, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event A hierarchy of cli Polish groups and non-reducibility results Shaun Allison, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Searching for Binaries Among Kepler's Planet Hosts Isabel Angelo, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 255 Uncommon linear systems of two equations Dingding Dong, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Decoding Neural Networks: A New Frontier in Astrophysical Discovery Brice Menard, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 The strong law of large numbers as an axiom Tobias Fritz, Department of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck,

Thursday, November 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special Quantum Matter Seminar West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room) Identifying the topological order of quantized half-filled Landau levels through their daughter states Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Department of Physics, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy Brandon Rayhaun, Stony Brook University,
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Topological Laplace transform and decomposition of nc-Hodge structures Shaowu Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Equivariant formal group laws and Quillen theorem Yunze Lu, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Precision and Discovery at the Frontiers of Elementary Particle Physics Josh Bendavid, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Computing crystalline deformation rings via the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin patching method Chengyang Bao, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) New Opportunities in Waveguide QED Alejandro González-Tudela, Professor, University of Madrid,

Friday, November 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Classical Double Copy: Solutions, Horizons, and Penrose Limits Cindy Keeler, Arizona State University,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Xiaoyi Liu, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – November 8, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A local automaton for the 2D toric code Shankar Balasubramanian, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Impact of Stellar Interactions on Black Hole Spin Evolution Fulya Kiroglu, Graduate Student, CIERA, Northwestern University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 The Space of Minimal Surfaces in S^3 and in B^3 Peter McGrath, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Ubiquity of conical intersections in ultrafast photochemistry Luis Banares, Director of the Center for Ultrafast Lasers; Associate Research Professor, Physical Chemistry Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event How Viable is Electroweak Baryogenesis? Michael Ramsey-Musolf, U Mass Amherst & Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Mapping the Universe in Blurred Lines Delaney Dunne, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, November 11
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Low-latency gravitational-wave data products intended for multi-messenger searches in the fourth observing run of the International Gravitational-Wave Network Andrew Toivonen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops Melissa Diamond, Queens University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Using cogsworth to make self-consistent population synthesis & galactic dynamics simulations of observable populations of massive binary products / Searching For Additional Planets in Multi-Planet Systems Tom Wagg, PhD student, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Emma Turtelboom, Final-year PhD student, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,

Tuesday, November 12
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Katherine E. Fleming Athenaeum
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Challenging the Standard Model of Particle Physics and the CMS tracker with flavour Luigi Marchese, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Geometry, groups and fixed points Nicolas Monod, EPFL,

Wednesday, November 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event How the Hilbert space of two-sided black holes factorises Guanda Lin, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Limits of sparse hypergraphs Riley Thornton, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Reionization: Lessons from Observations of Nearby Lyman-Continuum Emitters Alexandra Le Reste, University of Minnesota,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Astronomy Research Talk Cahill 370 To 100 kpc and Beyond: Tales from the Milky Way's Distant Horizon / Linking Gas, Dust, and Star Formation: Probing the baryonic cycle in early galaxies with the ALPINE survey Vedant Chandra, PhD student, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Prasad Sawant, Final-year PhD student, Department of Astronomy, National Centre for Nuclear Reasearch,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Present and Future of A New Era in High-Redshift Supernova Discovery Justin Pierel, Einstein Fellow, Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Regular Functions in Linguistics and Language Models Jon Rawski, Department of Linguistics & Language Development, San Jose State University,

Thursday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event From neutron stars to dense matter M Coleman Miller, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Degree $d$ points on curves Lea Beneish, Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas,

Friday, November 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Generalized entropy of gravitational fluctuations Sean Colin-Ellerin, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 When is a topological phase topological? Beginnings of a classification Daniel Ranard, Dubridge Postdoctoral Scholar,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Proper Time Correlators in Field Theory and Gravity Allic Sivaramakrishnan, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Extracting information on the Neutron Star Equation of State from Gamma-ray Bursts Cecilia Chirenti, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Minimal (hyper)surface doublings and their geometry Nicolaos Kapouleas, Department of Mathematics, Brown University,

Monday, November 18
8:15 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Interferometry Lands on the Moon Chen 100
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Anomalous Continuous Translations Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Where the current flows in a Chern insulator Roderich Moessner, Professor, Condensed Matter, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 Exploring non-left-orderability in 3-manifold groups Zipei Nie, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 L-space satellite operators and knot Floer homology Daren Chen, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "The Lunar Standstill" and "Black Holes in Popular Culture" Ed Krupp, Director, Griffith Observatory, Lisa Drummond, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 19
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 187 Dieudonné theory via cohomology of classifying stacks Shubhodip Mondal, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Burke Institute Lecture Series Online and In-Person Event Introduction to turbulence for physicists Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Evolving understanding of electric fields and enzyme catalysis Steve Boxer, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Interacting Dark Radiation and Cosmological Tensions Hengameh Bagherian, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Measurable domatic partitions Edward Hou, Department of Mathematics, Calteh,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) The Diversity of Massive Stellar Deaths and Relativistic Jets: Unraveling a Cosmic Tandem Gokul Srinivasaragavan, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Fundamental Physics and Cosmology from Stellar Mass Binary Black Holes Will Farr, Associate Professor, Stony Brook University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 A clock is just a way to tell the time: gravitational algebras in cosmological spacetimes Chang-Han Chen, UC Berkeley,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Katerina Chatziioannou - Matter vs. Gravity: Listening to Colliding Black Holes and Neutron Stars with Gravitational Waves Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 21
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Endomorphisms of varieties Burt Totaro, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Quantum K-theory of flag varieties Xiaohan Yan, Sorbonne-Université,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Novel electronic phases from frustration Linda Ye, Caltech,

Friday, November 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event The evaporation of charged black holes Luca Iliesiu, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum phase diagram and non-abelian Moore-Read state in double twisted bilayer graphene Sen Niu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cal State Northridge,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – November 22, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event On the Hunt for Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes Using Tidal Disruption Events Tatsuya Akiba, Graduate Student, Dept. of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences/JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Framed real monopole Floer homology Jiakai Li, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University,

Monday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Anyons in van der Waals materials Yuval Ronen, Sr Researcher, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Superradiant interactions of cosmic noise Marios Galanis, Perimeter Institute,

Tuesday, November 26
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Burke Institute Lecture Series Online and In-Person Event Introduction to turbulence for physicists Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online Event 4d mirror symmetry for class-S theories Wenbin Yan, Yau Mathematical Science Center, Tsinghua University,

Wednesday, November 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Low regularity well-posedness for the Generalized Surface Quasi-Geostrophic front equation Ovidiu-Neculai Avadanei, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Monday, December 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event A Quantum Description of Wave Dark Matter Nicholas Rodd, LBNL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 A New Window into Common Envelope Evolution: The First Catalog of Candidate White Dwarf-Main Sequence Binaries in Open Star Clusters / Constraining Black Hole Growth History With Population Spin Measurements Steffani Grondin, Final-year Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Asia Piotrowska-Karpov, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Tuesday, December 3
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Burke Institute Lecture Series Online and In-Person Event Introduction to turbulence for physicists Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute,

Wednesday, December 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Tidal Effects of Compact Objects From Theory to Observations Zihan Zhou, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Construction and obstruction results in Baire measurable combinatorics Clark Lyons, Eötvös Loránd University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Brightening Trends of Distant Long-Period Comets Carrie Holt, LCO,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Old and new results on active scalars Javier Gomez-Serrano, Department of Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Nature of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs Jacob Bean, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Turning particles into probes in plasma by machine learning Wentao Yu, senior graduate student, Physics, Emory University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Setting Sail to Ocean Worlds: The Science of the Europa Clipper Mission Ramo Auditorium

Thursday, December 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Exotic hidden-heavy hadrons Roberto Bruschini, The Ohio State University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Explaining Exotic Heavy Hadrons from QCD Roberto Bruschini, Ohio State University,
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Decomposition and framing of F-bundles and applications to quantum cohomology Thorgal Hinault, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Mirror symmetry for theta divisors in principally polarized abelian varieties Heather Lee, PhD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Faraday's Challenge: Batteries and Wires Peter Littlewood, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 187 THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED - Tori with discrete group actions in arithmetic Peter Xu, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Large Deviation Principle for the Directed Landscape Sayan Das, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Convergence of Pfaffian Point Processes to the Airy Line Ensemble Zhengye Zhou, Department of Mathematics, USC,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Community Detection with the Bethe-Hessian Yizhe Zhu, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Friday, December 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Randomness in conformal field theories Moshe Rozali, University of British Columbia,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-reciprocal phase transitions Peter Littlewood, University of Chicago,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event The "visible" and "invisible": stars as tracers for the Milky Way formation Xiaowei Ou, Graduate Student, Dept. of Physics and MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 The Isoperimetric Problem in the Cube and Torus Federico Glaudo, Institute for Advanced Study,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics How to Build a Galaxy from Scratch Sam Ponnada, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, December 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 The chemical compositions of massive quiescent galaxies across cosmic time with JWST / The first sample of orbital properties for stars stripped in binaries: towards population statistics Aliza Beverage, Final-year Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Alex Raroche, Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of Toronto,

Tuesday, December 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Student Seminar Linde Hall 255 Explore Bourgain and Chang's nonlinear Roth theorem in various settings Guo-Dong Hong, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, December 11
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Faint Quasar Candidates at z~6 in the COSMOS Field Yu-Heng (Ian) Lin, Caltech/IPAC,

Thursday, December 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Charting the Gravitational-wave Universe At Light-year Wavelengths Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University,

Monday, December 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Atmospheric Characterization of the Dusty Planetary-Mass Companion BD+60 1417B Caprice Phillips, Final-year Ph.D. student, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Chandra X-ray Telescope" and "The X-ray Sky" Margaret Lazzarini, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, CSULA, Peter Boorman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Wednesday, December 18
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Online Event First Exploration of Barred Galaxies in the Young Universe out to z~4 Using JWST CEERS Data Shardha Jogee, University of Texas at Austin,