Tuesday, September 26
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	PHD Comics presents Oliver's Great Big Universe Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Jorge Cham, Author, PHD Comics,

Wednesday, September 27
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Hubble Asteroid Hunter: Finding Asteroids in HST Archival Images and Analysing Their Properties Using Parallax Pablo García Martín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lightning Talks ,

Friday, September 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event The classical equations of motion of quantised gauge theories Tom Melia, IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Probing localization properties of many-body Hamiltonians via an imaginary vector potential Liam O'Brien, Refael Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Gaining Physical Insights into the Formation of Black-Hole Mergers Monica Gallegos-Garcia, Graduate Student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Applied Physics and Materials Science Seminar Keck 142 Feedback control of ultracold atomic gases Ryan Thomas, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Lee filtration structure of torus links, adjunction inequality, and applications Qiuyu Ren, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics FARSIDE: Exploring the Cosmos from the Moon Nivedita Mahesh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Light Shining Through a Thin Wall: Evanescent Hidden Photon Detection Ryan Janish, Fermilab,

Wednesday, October 4
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Grey Galaxies: The Endpoint of Superradiant Instabilities in Rotating AdS Black Holes Jaeha Lee, Caltech,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series Online Event Quantum Hamiltonian Descent Xiaodi Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) TESS Stellar Variability Catalog (TESS-SVC) Tara Fetherolf, UC Riverside,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Bounding spectral gap for Laplacian and Dirac operator Yixin Xu, Department of Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Origin of Cosmic Rays: Updates from Multi-Messenger Observations Nahee Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University,

Thursday, October 5
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Lagrangian cobordism functor in microlocal sheaf theory Wenyuan Li, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Poisson-Voronoi tessellations and fixed price in higher rank Amanda Wilkins, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Measuring the knots and braids of non-Hermitian oscillators Jack Harris, Yale,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Asymptotics for the site frequency spectrum associated with the genealogy of a birth and death process Jason Schweinsberg, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Open/closed correspondence and mirror symmetry Song Yu, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Poisson Boundaries Without Moment Conditions Joshua Frisch, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,

Friday, October 6
10:00 am - 11:00 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Integrable Kerr Black Hole Spectrum from Twistor Symmetries Alfredo Guevara Gonzalez, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Postdoc L(a)unch – October 6 Caltech Hall 9th Floor
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Measuring high-amplitude quantum motion in a nanogram object Jack Harris, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event A tale of two objects: binary formation, evolution and distribution Mor Rozner, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, Technion University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Geometric Boundary of Groups Yulan Qing, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,

Monday, October 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Neutrinoless double beta decay in effective field theory Wouter Dekens, INT, University of Washington,

Tuesday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices David A. Mazziotti, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, October 11
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Entropy Vector Dynamics from Cayley Graphs William Munizzi, Arizona State University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Lunch Seminar October 11, 2023 IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Preparing for Euclid and Roman Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Galaxy Clustering Models and Observational Systematics Kevin McCarthy, Caltech/IPAC and Caltech/JPL,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Quantifying emergent effects through homological algebra Johnny Jingze Li, Mathematical Neuroscience Lab, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Exoplanets to the Solar System: Rocky Planet Formation in a New Light Hilke Schlichting, Professor of Planetary Science, Department of Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, UCLA,

Thursday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Simulating the quantum world on a classical computer Garnet Chan, Caltech,

Friday, October 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Evidence for KKLT de Sitter Vacua Richard Nally, Cornell University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Higher-dimensional encoding and programmable openness with Rydberg atom arrays Jacob Covey, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event https://ctac.carnegiescience.edu/annastasia-haynie Annastasia Haynie, Graduate Student, Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center, USC / Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Labeled four cycles and the K(pi,1) problem for reflection arrangement complements Jingyin Huang, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University,

Saturday, October 14
8:30 am - 10:30 am	Solar Eclipse Viewing Event Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Monday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Qubit-based sensing for axion dark matter Chiara Salemi, KICP, Stanford/SLAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Page curve-like behavior in an exactly solvable model Stefan Kehrein, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Goettingen,

Tuesday, October 17
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Organizational Meeting Sergei Gukov, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Joint seminar: CPS and IES Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) 2D superlattices for electrochemistry and magnetism Kwabena Bediako, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 The orbit method, microlocal analysis and applications to L-functions Paul Nelson, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Michael Lomax Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, October 18
10:40 am - 11:40 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Integer modes and Bulk w_(1+infinity) symmetry Noah Miller, Harvard University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Revisiting Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations Through Dark Matter – Gas Coherence Giulia Cerini, Department of Physics, University of Miami,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Spectral Method for the Gravitational Perturbations of Black Holes Adrian (Ka Wai) Chung, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yunes Gravity Theory Group, UIUC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Machine Learning: The Evolution of Gas from Molecular Clouds to Stars Stella Offner, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Center for Scientific Machine Learning, University of Texas, Austin,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - The Chemistry of Everything: Uncovering New Treatments in the Natural World Beckman Auditorium Hosea Nelson (PhD '13), Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,

Thursday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Supermassive primordial black holes from inflation Aurora Ireland, University of Chicago,
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Constructing smoothings of stable maps Mohan Swaminathan, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 The algebraic Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture for the complement of a very general hypersurface in Pn Wern Yeong, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University,

Friday, October 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Per Kraus, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Measurement-Prepared Quantum Phases and Transitions Wenjie Ji, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chen Group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Probing Accretion Disk Structure Beyond the Standard Thin Disk Model Amy Secunda, Graduate Student, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Floquet Gap-dependent topological classifications from color-decorated frequency lattices with space-time symmetries Iryan Na, Department of Physics, UC Berkely,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 The extremal structures of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequality: convex polytopes and beyond Yair Shenfeld, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University,

Monday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The search for µ− → e+ conversion at µ− → e− conversion experiments Michael Mackenzie, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Subconvex bounds for unitary groups in horizontal aspects Paul Nelson, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University,

Tuesday, October 24
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Improved performance guarantees for the median of means estimator Stanislav Minsker, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Probing and imaging nuclear and electronic motions at molecular length-scales in disordered media harnessing optical and scattering interactions Thomas Markland, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The 2x2 Demonstrator - A demonstrator for the DUNE ND-LAr Near Detector based on the ArgonCube Design Brooke Russell, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL),

Wednesday, October 25
10:40 am - 11:40 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Toroidal Casimir Energy of Conformal Field Theories with d>2 Conghuan Luo, New York University,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series East Bridge 114 Quantum circuits for fast multiplication with few ancillas Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Rigorous results about entropies in QFT Feng Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Next-Generation Simulations of the Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars Carl Fields, RPF Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Physics and Methods, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Thursday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Companion-Disk Interaction: From Protoplanetary Disks to AGN Disks Zhaohuan Zhu, UNLV,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 On the Universal Deformation Ring of Residual Galois Representations with Three Jordan Holder Factors Xiaoyu Huang, Graduate Center, City University of New York,

Friday, October 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Holography on the quantum disk Ahmed Almheiri, NYU,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Exponential speedups for quantum walks in random hierarchical graphs Shankar Balasubramanian, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Constraining supernovae models using gamma-ray deposition histories Amir Sharon, Graduate Student, Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Genus one singularities in mean curvature flow Adrian Chun-Pong Chu, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago,

Monday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Electromagnetism and Gravity with Continuous Spin Kevin Zhou, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 Counting incompressible surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds Marc Lackenby, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Symmetry and topology in mixed quantum states: SPT, anomaly and separability Chong Wang, Research Faculty, Department of Physics-Quantum Matter, Perimeter Institute,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 PL-genus of surfaces in homology balls Jennifer Hom, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, October 31
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Mildly Overparameterized ReLU Networks Have a Favorable Loss Landscape Guido Montufar, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics & Data Science, UCLA,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online Event On the Feigin-Tipunin's construction Shoma Sugimoto, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University,

Wednesday, November 1
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Scale invariance and rate of nuclear reactions Subham Chowdhury, University of Chicago,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Online Event Exploring the Dark Universe Katrin Heitmann, ANL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The First Glimpse of the First Galaxies with JWST Rohan Naidu, NASA Hubble Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Thursday, November 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 MMP for 3-dimensional Kahler generalized pairs Jose Yanez, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Hodge theory, modular forms, counting curves on surfaces, and maybe some other stuff Joseph Helfer, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Colliders for the Future of High Energy Physics Julia Gonski, SLAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum KPZ estimates for ASEP and the Stochastic Six Vertex model Philippe Sosoe, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 On mod p Langlands parameters for tame groups Zhongyipan Lin, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Convergence of effective resistances on generalized Sierpinski carpets Shiping Cao, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Geodesics in Last-Passage Percolation under Large Deviations Lingfu Zhang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, November 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Celestial Amplitudes in Effective Field Theories Prahar Mitra, University of Amsterdam,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers Yiran Zhang, Nadj-Perge group,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Heavy element nucleosynthesis & energetic neutrinos from highly magnetized outflows Mukul Bhattacharya, Eberly Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Splitting spheres in S^4 Maggie Miller, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Monday, November 6
8:45 am - 12:30 pm	KISS Short Course - Extrasolar Space Weather: The Hidden Hand in Exoplanet Evolution South Mudd 365
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk Annenberg 105
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Axion electrodynamics through the lens of condensed matter Prineha Narang, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Fast Electrons and Hard X-rays for Unraveling Atomic-Scale Dynamics in Light-Energy Conversion Renske Van der Veen, Associate Professor and Department Head at Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre Berlin and the Technical University Berlin.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Charles R. dePrima Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Linde Hall 310 The search for supersingular curves Rachel Pries, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University,

Wednesday, November 8
10:00 am - 10:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Poincaré generators of spinning binary in the post-Minkowskian approach Sangmin Lee, Seoul National University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres at High-Spectral Resolution Jake Turner, Cornell University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Higher Information: The untold topological secrets of measures and states Tom Mainiero, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, St. Joseph's University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Searching for Signposts of Failed White Dwarf Supernovae JJ Hermes, Assistant Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions, Boston University,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Unlocking Movement: Helping Paralyzed People Use Thought to Control Computers and Robotic Limbs Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter Models with Astrophysical Observations Mehrdad Phoroutan-Mehr, UC Riverside,
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	INQNET Pizza Seminar Special AI & Misinformation Seminar: " IQ Journalism: Predicting the quality of news stories based on explainable AI" Catherine Sotirakou,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales Mina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 A new case of BSD conjecture and deformation of line bundles Ziquan Yang, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Madison,

Friday, November 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Generalized entropy for general subregions in quantum gravity Antony Speranza, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics Dominik Wild, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Catalogs and populations with ground-based and space-based gravitational-wave detectors
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Collisionless Black Hole Accretion Alisa Galishnikova, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Online Event Convergence of unitary representations and spectral gaps of manifolds Michael Magee, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University,

Monday, November 13
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	INQNET Pizza Seminar High-dimensional entanglement and chip-scale quantum information processing Dr Xiang Cheng,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Leveraging quantum sensors to shine new light on searches for low-mass dark matter Kelly Stifter, SLAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Universal fluctuations in ergodic quantum dynamics, and their use for benchmarking highly entangled states Daniel K. Mark, Department of Physics-Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Behind the Book: The Warped Side of Our Universe Beckman Auditorium
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Exploring Venus" and "Exoplanets: Past, Present, & Future" Anna Gülcher, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Geology and Planetary Science, Caltech, Luke Bouma, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 14
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Introduction to Transformer Models Aike Liu, Physics Department, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Horizons as Eavesdroppers: Horizons Decohere Quantum Superpositions Daine Danielson, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Continuous bubbling for the harmonic map heat flow Andrew W. Lawrie, Department of Mathematics, MIT,

Wednesday, November 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series Lauritsen 469 Identification and characterization of topological order without and with tensor networks Norbert Schuch, University of Vienna,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Unveiling the Atmospheres of Exoplanets: Exploring Detection, Evolution, and Habitability Raissa Estrela, JPL-NASA,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Aperiodic spin chains for discrete holography on hyperbolic tilings Giuseppe di Giulio, Institute for Theoretical Physics & Astrophysics, University of Wurzburg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Characterizing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium and Star Formation in Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectral Lines Jorge Pineda, ASTHROS Balloon Principal Investigator, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),

Thursday, November 16
10:30 am - 11:30 am	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event AdS_3/RMT_2 Duality Gabriele Di Ubaldo, IPhT,
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Mirror Symmetry for Nonabelian LG models Nathan Priddis, College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Brigham Young University,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 Quantum K-invariants of Grassmannian via Quot scheme Ming Zhang, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Wielding Frequency Dependent Squeezing against Quantum Back-Action in the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatories Lee McCuller, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Geometric Eisenstein Series and Torsion Vanishing Linus Hamann, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Friday, November 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Chaos in Observable Algebras of Quantum Gravity Nima Lashkari, Purdue University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing Robin Kothari, Google,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Dwarf Galaxies, Neutron Star Mergers, and Heavy Elements Anya Nugent,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Binary Interaction and the Explodability of Massive Stars Rachel Patton, Graduate Student, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), Ohio State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Nonequilibrium spin dynamics in quantum magnets probed by neutrons Dr. Chengyun Hua, R&D Associate, Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Online Event Log-Concavity of the Alexander Polynomial for Special Alternating Links Elena S. Hafner, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Stellar Tantrums and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Yuping Huang, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Piezoaxionic Effect: dark matter detection and new forces Amalia Madden, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Solvable models for 2+1D quantum critical points with a non-local area law of entanglement Thomas Scaffidi, Professor, Department of Physics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Random conformal geometry Morris Ang, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,

Monday, November 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Prospecting for new physics using muons Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati, ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Optical control of antiferromagnetic order Suyang Xu, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvad University,

Tuesday, November 28
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Searching singularity formation in fluids with deep learning Ching-Yao Lai, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Conjugacy classes of derangements in finite groups of Lie type Daniele Garzoni, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar TBA Aravind Asok, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) , ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Last Passage Percolation beyond algebraic formulas Lingfu Zhang, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, November 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Joint IQIM/AWS Seminar Series East Bridge 114 Quantum Computation with Quantum LDPC Codes in Reconfigurable Atom Arrays Hengyun (Harry) Zhou, Harvard and QuEra,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Keith Spalding 410 SDSS-V Instrumentation Program and Survey Status Solange Ramirez, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Future of AI in Astronomy Cecilia Garraffo, Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,

Thursday, November 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Quantum Hair and Black Hole Information Stephen Hsu, Michigan State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Using Nuclear Reactors to Study Neutrinos Pedro Ochoa,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Local densities of hermitian lattices and Kudla—Rapoport conjectures with levels Zhiyu Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Embedding in high-dimensional random geometric graphs Shuangping Li, Department of Statistics, Stanford University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 On sharp isoperimetric inequalities on the hypercube Paata Ivanisvili, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Phase transition in the log-gamma polymer measure Evgeni Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, USC,

Friday, December 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Massive gravity is not positive Giulia Isabella, UCLA,
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) W state is not the unique ground state of any local Hamiltonian Lei Gioia, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Xie Chen Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium High-precision waveforms with the small-mass-ratio limit Scott Hughes, Professor of Physics, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	CaJAGWR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium High-Precision Waveforms with the Small-Mass-Ratio Limit Scott A. Hughes, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Optimal regularity for minimizers of the prescribed mean curvature functional over isotopies Lorenzo Sarnataro, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

Monday, December 4
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Special AMO Seminar East Bridge 114 Dipole-dipole interactions between individual molecules in an optical tweezer array Lewis Picard, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Neutrino Scattering for Neutrino Oscillations Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Energy Beaming" and "Space Dust" Michael Kelzenberg, Senior Research Scientist, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, Samantha Rose, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Tuesday, December 5
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Brenda Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Department of Chemistry, Brown University,
4:00 pm - Friday 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event State-of-the art R&D on optical photon detection at Fermilab Alexander Kish, Fermilab,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online Event Irregular conformal blocks and braiding properties Xia Gu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University,

Wednesday, December 6
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) RAPID: Roman Alerts Promptly from Image Differencing Mansi Kasliwal, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Modeling Luminous Accretion Flows Around Black Holes James Stone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University,

Friday, December 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Sharp square function estimates in Fourier restriction theory Dominique Maldague, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Data-driven compression of electron-phonon interactions Yao Luo, Bernardi Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) bhpwave: A perturbative waveform model for binaries with spinning massive black holes Zach Nasipak,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event With great precision comes great challenges: Gravitational Wave Observations of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals Lorenzo Speri, Graduate Student, Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI),
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics The Galactic Underworld: The Milky Way's Sea of Dormant Black Holes Kareem El-Badry, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Sunday, December 10
8:00 am - Wednesday 12:00 pm	Math and Machine Learning 2023

Tuesday, December 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special AMO Seminar East Bridge 114 Dynamics in nearly integrable 1D Bose gases after sudden quenches Yuan Le, Department of Physics, Penn State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Untangling Photodriven Mechanisms using Computation Lisa Fredin, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University,

Wednesday, December 13
12:00 pm - Saturday 5:00 pm	String Data 2023
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Masses and Orbits for Planets Likely to be Observed with Ariel/CASE Robert Zellem, JPL,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Wearable Biosensors and the Future of Personalized Medicine Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Deep Learning for Theory: from Particle Physics to the Poincaré Conjecture Jim Halverson,

Friday, December 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Emergence of highly coherent two-level systems in a noisy and dense quantum network Adrian Beckert, Faraon Group,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Toward unified Bayesian parameter inference of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds Leo Tsukada,

Monday, December 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Illuminating exotic chemistry and physics with single-quantum-state spectroscopy Bryan Changala, Postdoctoral Physicist, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian,

Wednesday, December 20
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) The Roman Galaxy Redshift Survey Project Infrastructure Team Yun Wang, Caltech/IPAC,