Monday, April 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Journeys beyond the Standard Model in the flavor and dark sectors at LHCb and CODEX-b Biplab Dev, Eötvös University,

Tuesday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Using Machine Learning to Deal with the Data from the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter Matteo Cremonesi, Carnegie Mellon University,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Minimal surfaces, representation theory and random permutations Antoine Song, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event One-Form Symmetry in Dynamical Gravity Joonhwi Kim, Caltech,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Online Event On Galaxies' Circumgalactic Media and Outflows Claudia Scarlata, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Greenstein Lecture) Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Simple Physics Behind CMB Spectral Distortions: Three Milestones in the Life of the Universe Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Some problems and results on logarithmic potentials in prime number theory Vesselin Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 4
All Day	Is Middle Earth an Exoplanet?
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	LA Probability Forum On Pfaffians in spin models Marcin Lis, Mathematics Department, Vienna University of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Quantum networks linking diamond spin qubits, inside and outside the lab Ronald Hanson, QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum The shape of the front of multidimensional branching Brownian motion Yujin Kim, Courant Institute, NYU,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Product of Rankin-Selberg convolutions and applications Pan Yan, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Equilibrium in functional stochastic games with mean-field interaction Moritz Voss, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Friday, April 5
10:00 am - 11:00 am	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Experiments on a new favorite among diamond quantum networkers: the SnV center Ronald Hanson, Delft University of Technology,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Precision Black Hole Collider Physics Enrico Herrmann, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Polya's conjecture in spectral geometry David Sher, Department of Mathematical Sciences, DePaul University,

Saturday, April 6
10:00 am - 5:00 pm	Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 310

Monday, April 8
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Solar Eclipse Viewing Party Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Caltech Optica Student Chapter Lecture Series Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators Alexander Gaeta, David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Colu, ,
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Solar Eclipse Viewing Party in Mexico
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The accelerator-driven hunt for hidden sector dark matter in the US Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Fermilab, ,

Tuesday, April 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring and Manipulating Novel Matter Phases with Ultrafast Linear and Nonlinear X-Ray Techniques Michael Zuerch, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

Wednesday, April 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event More on Torus Wormholes in 3d Gravity Cynthia Yan, Stanford University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Probing the Smallest Interstellar Dust Grains with JWST in Different Galaxy Environments Thomas Lai, Caltech/IPAC,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Massive Particles at Spatial Infinity Suvrat Raju, ICTS, Tata Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Multiple radial SLE(0) system and classical Calogero-Sutherland model Jiaxin Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium White Dwarfs as Probes of Convective Overshoot and Evolved Exoplanetary Systems Tim Cunningham, NASA Hubble Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Predictive coding in neural networks can recover the environment's map James Gornet, Electrical Engineering Department, Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech,

Thursday, April 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Black hole spectroscopy and beyond no-hair Dr Julian Westerweck,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Is it really cold and quiet? How mundane backgrounds that cause quasi-particle poisoning in superconducting sensors limit meV-GeV dark matter searches today and could ultimately limit superconducting QUBITs. Matt Pyle, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Covers of P^1 and number fields Sameera Vemulapalli, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,

Friday, April 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Strings From Feynman Diagrams Edward Mazenc, ETH, Zurich,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Uncovering the Origins of Binary Black Holes with Normalising Flows Storm Colloms,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 12, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor Caltech Postdocs Launch Dr. Riccardo Caniato, PMA, Dr. Maksym Figat, Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Keeping matter in the loop in 3D quantum gravity Alejandra Castro, University of Cambridge,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Stellar transient from triple interactions Hila Glanz, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Technion University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Informal Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) MARVEL, SNAPS, and hubs Attila G. Császár, Professor of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Online Event Surgery Exact Triangles in Instanton Theory Deeparaj Bhat, Department of Mathematics, MIT,

Monday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Flavorful New Physics and Wrinkles in the Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism Sam Homiller, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum many-body physics with ultracold atoms Peter Schauss, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics-AMOP, University of Virginia,

Wednesday, April 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Acceleration-Induced Effects in Stimulated Light-Matter Interactions Barbara Soda, Perimeter Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-reciprocity in quantum materials Philip Moll, Max-Planck Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Groups without unitary representations, submeasures, and the escape property Sławomir Solecki, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Pre-Peak Emission in TDEs Xiaoshan Huang, Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Recent progress on mathematical wave turbulence Yu Deng, Department of Mathematics, USC,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Uniqueness problems for generalized quadrature domains with connections to Hele-Shaw flow and the Faber transform Andrew Graven, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope Chad Bender, Associate Astronomer, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Toward a Control Theory of LLMs Aman Bhargava, Electrical Engineering Department, Computational & Neural Systems, Caltech, Shi-Zhuo Looi, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, April 18
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Algebra and geometry of camera resectioning Jessie Loucks-Tavitas, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Presidential Distinguished Speaker Series: Bob Iger Athenaeum
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar From geometric realizations of affine Hecke algebras to character formulas Vasily Krylov, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Quantum materials on the mesoscale Philip Moll, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter,
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 The period-index conjecture for abelian threefolds Alexander Perry, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,

Friday, April 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Majorana zero modes in germanium-based devices Katharina Laubscher, University of Maryland, College Park,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Stellar Rotation and Polytropic Gas Effects on the Stellar Wind Bhimsen Shivamoggi, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida,
2:00 pm - 6:15 pm	Inaugural Conference of The Merkin Center
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Online Event Triple Grid Diagrams Sarah Blackwell, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm	Richard N. Merkin Public Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Puzzles to Unravel the Universe Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Cosmic Gold Mining Shreya Anand, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, April 20
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Inaugural Conference of The Merkin Center
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Richard N. Merkin Public Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Toy Models Tadashi Tokieda, Stanford University,

Monday, April 22
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 The Classical Limit of Quantum Max-Cut Vir Bulchandani, Leibniz Universität Hannover,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Detecting Dark Matter Substructures on Small Scales with Fast Radio Bursts Huangyu Xiao, Fermilab & KICP,

Tuesday, April 23
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Learning Augmented Algorithms for MDPs Adam Wierman, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Rindler Fluids from Gravitational Shockwaves Jerry Zhang, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Equivalence relations classifiable by Polish abelian groups Forte Shinko, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Renaissance of Compact Objects in Binary Systems Kevin Burdge, Pappalardo Fellow, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 310 Line bundles on abelian schemes and p-adic heights Adebisi Agboola, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Programmable control of indistinguishable particles: from clocks to qubits to many-body physics Adam Kaufman, JILA/NIST,

Friday, April 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event New dualities between string theories and random ensembles Victor Rodriguez, Princeton University,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Modeling and Inference of Environmental Effects in Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals Shubham Kejriwal,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – April 26, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor Caltech Postdocs Launch Dr. Hanxun Jin, EAS, Dr. Alessandro Liberatore, JPL,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Resonant shattering flares as probes of neutron star structure and nuclear symmetry Duncan Neill, Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Bath,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Stable Minimal Hypersurfaces in \R^5 Paul Minter, IAS,

Monday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Indirect probes of muon EDM and spin force Yohei Ema, University of Minnesota & FTPI,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Memorial Lectures Linde Hall 310 Random planar curves Jason Miller, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Technosignatures" and "Galactic Gravitational Waves" Joseph Lazio, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smadar Naoz, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, UCLA,

Tuesday, April 30
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics & Machine Learning Seminar East Bridge 114 Learning Shallow Quantum Circuits Robert Huang, Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Moving Protons with Photoacids to Harness Light Energy" Kana Takematsu, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Bowdoin College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Memorial Lectures Linde Hall 310 Random surfaces Jason Miller, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge,

Wednesday, May 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Disentanglement as a strong cosmic censor Vincent Chen, UC Santa Barbara,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Paradoxical decompositions and colouring rules Robert Simon, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Critical non-uniqueness in a shell model of the Navier-Stokes equations Stan Palasek, Department of Mathematics, IAS/Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Neugebauer Lecture) Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Connecting Disks to Planetary Architectures and Compositions Alycia Weinberger, Staff Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science,

Thursday, May 2
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 CANCELLED -Weight zero compactly supported cohomology of moduli spaces of pointed hyperelliptic curves Siddarth Kannan, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Linde Hall 183 Uniform Turán density of hypergraphs Daniel Kráľ, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno,
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebra and Geometry Seminar Linde Hall 187 GW/FJRW correspondence for quasi-homogeneous polynomials Yefeng Shen, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event New frontiers for many-body physics: from non-equilibrium to non-Euclidean Vedika Khemani, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Large deviations of Dyson Brownian motion and multiple Schramm-Loewner Evolution Evelina Peltola, Mathematics Center, University of Bonn,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Simple abelian varieties over finite fields with extreme point counts Alexander Smith, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Multiple radial SLE(0) and classical Calogero-Sutherland system Jiaxin Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Linde Hall 310 Phase transition for the late points of random walk Perla Sousi, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge,

Friday, May 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Bound on the thermalization time of d>2 CFTs Luca Delacretaz, University of Chicago,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Hunting narrow spectral artifacts in LIGO data Ansel Neunzert,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 The Physics of LDPC codes Vedika Khemani, Stanford,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Current numerical efforts on free hyperboloidal evolutions Alex Vañó-Viñuales, Postdoc and Invited Professor, GRIT, CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Infinitesimal calculations in fundamental group Nir Gadish, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wolff Memorial Lectures Linde Hall 310 Liouville quantum gravity and SLE Jason Miller, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge,

Monday, May 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Conversations about Math Teaching Linde Hall 359 Conversations about Math Teaching Matthew Gherman & Juan Pablo Vigneaux, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event The role of dark matter in supermassive black hole mergers Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez, University of Toronto,

Tuesday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Sarah King, Neubaruer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Dark Matter Signals from the Ionosphere Sebastian Ellis, University of Geneva,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech-Tsinghua Joint Colloquium Online and In-Person Event A Purity Result for Semi-Stable Local Systems Heng Du, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University,

Wednesday, May 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Stringy Horizons Elliott Gesteau, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Fractional graph theory in the Borel setting Anton Bernshteyn, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology.,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Online Event Searching for Parity Violation with the Galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function Zachary Slepian, University of Florida,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves: A New Probe Cosmology and Nature of Dark Matter Souvik Jana,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Online Event Dispersive decay for the energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation Matt Kowalski, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM (Biard Lecture) Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planet Formation Under the Microscope Karin Oberg, Professor of Natural Sciences, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Complete constraints on hyperbolic surface spectra from the conformal bootstrap Anshul Adve, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,

Thursday, May 9
All Day	"I'll Eat My Hat!"
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 187 Some equations involving the Gamma function Adele Padgett, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Quantum Critical Metals and the fermion sign problem Erez Berg, Weizmann Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Multiplicative Relations Among Differences of Singular Moduli Sebastian Eterovic, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds,

Friday, May 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event The Callan Rubakov Effect Daniel Brennan, UC San Diego,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Gravitational & quantum physics at low energies Animesh Datta,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantum eigenvalue transformation from and beyond Hamiltonian simulation Dong An, University of Maryland, College Park,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Coupling & Collisions: The Dynamic Lives of Galactic Atmospheres Chris Carr, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Columbia University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Partial Post-Selection: Unveiling Measurement-Induced Transitions trajectory by trajectory Alessandro Romito, Lancaster University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Knots in circle bundles Andrew Yarmola, Department of Mathematics, Yale University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Nova T Coronae Borealis: A New Star in the Crown Mansi Kasliwal, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, May 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Heavy quark transverse momentum-dependent fragmentation Zhiquan Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 The NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Survey of the North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field / A systematic study of AGN torus with NuSTAR

Tuesday, May 14
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 A theoretical framework for fault-slip styles from aseismic creep to regular earthquakes Davide Zaccagnino, PhD student in Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, Sapienza University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding the Tropospheric Impacts of Isoprene-Derived Carbonyl Oxide Criegee Intermediates: Direct Studies of an Elusive Class of Reactive Intermediates. Rebecca Caravan, Assistant Chemist, Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Linde Hall 310 Homotopy Groups of Spheres Zhouli Xu, Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego,

Wednesday, May 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Search for Kerr from Multipole Moments on the Worldline Trevor Scheopner, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Invariant uniformization and reducibility Michael Wolman, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Mapping the Expansion History with DESI Y1 Data Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The More the Merrier - Stellar Physics in the Era of Stellar, Transient, and Gravitational Wave Selma de Mink, Scientific Director, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 Almost-idempotent quantum channels and approximate C*-algebras Alexei Kitaev, Department Theoretical Physics & Mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, May 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event The Magic of Moiré Quantum Matter Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 On the arithmetic nature of special values of Dirichlet L-functions Vesselin Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Friday, May 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Multipartite Edge Modes and Tensor Networks Ronak Soni, University of Cambridge,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Next Generation Moiré Quantum Matter Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event To infinity and beyond: the hyperboloidal framework in Black-hole perturbation theory Rodrigo Macedo, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Khovanov skein lasagna modules and exotica Michael Willis, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,

Monday, May 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Quantum Matter Seminar East Bridge 114 Temporal entanglement and complexity of quantum many-body dynamics Dmitry Abanin, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 Ribbon concordances and slice obstructions: experiments and examples Sherry Gong, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electron Beam Driven Plasmas and the Quest for Precise Control in Materials Processing Scott G. Walton, PhD, Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Enhancing X-ray Astronomy with machine learning
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Joint Los Angeles Topology Seminar Linde Hall 310 Group actions, algebra up to homotopy, and flavors of commutativity Mike Hill, Mathematics Department, UCLA,
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Astronomy on Tap "Supermassive Black Holes" and "Ocean Worlds" Jean Somalwar, PhD Candidate, Department of Astronomy, Caltech, Kevin Hand, Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Tuesday, May 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special Quantum Matter Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chiral Critical Matter Leo Radzihovsky, Professor of Physics, CU Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Towards predictive protein separations: Imaging protein dynamics at nanoscale interfaces Christy Landes, Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign,

Wednesday, May 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes Walker Melton, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Special Lunch Seminar Keith Spalding 410 The SDSS-V Open Fiber Call and Data Access for Caltech Scientists Thomas Prince, Caltech, Zachary Vanderbosch, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stellar Processes Around Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Centers Re'em Sari, Professor, Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Information, Geometry, and Physics Seminar Linde Hall 310 An Enriched Category Theory of Language Tai-Danae Bradley, Sandbox AQ,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Historic Innovations by Caltech People That Transformed Our Everyday Lives Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 23
All Day	A Planet Around a Dead, Spinning Star 💫 😵🌀
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event From the early Universe to colliders: Low-scale leptogenesis Yannis Georis, Louvain University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Searching for topological superconductors using ultrasound Brad Ramshaw, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Some results on the weight part of Serre's conjecture Daniel Le, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University,

Friday, May 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) The Astrophysical Promise of Black Hole Ringdowns Harrison Siegel,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Certifying almost all quantum states with few single-qubit measurements Mehdi Soleimanifar, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Double White Dwarf Binaries, their explosions and their survivors Sunny Wong, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Linde Hall 187 Area estimates and intersection properties for minimal hypersurfaces in space forms Jonathan Zhu, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

Tuesday, May 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - *rescheduled* Online and In-Person Event Cosmology with varying constants: hyperlight, coupled scalars across cosmic history Masha Baryakhtar, University of Washington,

Wednesday, May 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online Event Hyperbolic Mass in 2+1 Dimensions Raphaela Wutte, Arizona State University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Borel graphable equivalence relations Patrick Lutz, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Cosmology with Roman's High Latitude Imaging Survey Katarina (Dida) Markovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Mass Transfer and Global Solutions in a Micro-Scale Model of Superfluidity Pranava Jayanti, Department of Mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Time-Domain Astrophysics in the Era of Big Data Ashley Villar, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University,

Thursday, May 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Online and In-Person Event Effective field theory treatment of the freeze-out mechanism of thermal non-relativistic dark matter pairs Gramos Qerimi, Tech Univ Munich (TUM),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Fuchsian automorphic functions and functional transcendence Ronnie Nagloo, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, & Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Commutation relation for two SLEs Hao Wu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	PMA Social Hour Online and In-Person Event ,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	LA Probability Forum An Expansion for the Critical Intensity of Random Connection Models Matthew Dickson, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia,
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	LA Probability Forum Uniqueness and CLT for the Ground State of the Disordered Monomer-Dimer Model on Z^d Gourab Ray, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Victoria,

Friday, May 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Type I von Neumann algebras from gravitational path integrals: Ryu–Takayanagi as entropy without holography Eugenia Colafranceschi, University of Western Ontario,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event High eccentricity dynamics of few body systems reduce to simple pendulum models Ygal Klein, Graduate Student, Department of Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Online Event Orbifold singularity formation along ancient and immortal Ricci flows Tristan Ozuch, Department of Mathematics, MIT,

Monday, June 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Conversations about Math Teaching Linde Hall 359
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 The Virtues of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Edward Farhi, Principal Scientist, Google, & MIT,

Tuesday, June 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Precision measurements in biology 2.0: uncovering the molecular architecture of complex biological systems Hee-Sun Han, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, June 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event The arithmetic of linear orders Garrett Ervin, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech/IPAC Lunch Seminar Online Event The Primordial Universe as Seen by Euclid Hakim Atek, IAP, Paris,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Nonuniqueness and Self-similar solutions of 2D incompressible Euler Hyungjun Choi, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium HERA and Beyond: Instrument Design in the Era of AI Aaron Parsons, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley,
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Origins and Evolution of Life in Space and Time Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Friday, June 7
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Online and In-Person Event Begin at the beginning: how black holes are born, grow, and launch outflows Goni Halevi, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, June 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Logic Seminar Online Event Translational tilings of the plane by a polygonal set Jan Grebik, Department of Mathematics, UCLA & Masaryk University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST Thomas Greene, Astrophysicist, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center,