Monday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar What makes a neural code convex? Nora Youngs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale Surjeet Rajendran, UC Berkelely,

Tuesday, October 27
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Crackle, crackle little blade: experimental investigations of mechanical up conversion in Advanced LIGO suspensions Gabriele , Vajente, LIGO, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQI Weekly Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological Phases in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Systems Alexey Gorshkov, NIST/JQI,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Predictive Methods for Catalyst and Materials Optimization Paul M. Zimmerman, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 Stability of Causal Inference Piyush Srivastava, CMI Postdoctoral Fellow, CMS, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium In Quest of Low Mass Planets in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs Prof. Suvrath Mahadevan, Penn. State Univ.,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Space Entrepreneurship Panel Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Profits in the Final Frontier: Entrepreneurial Pursuits in Space

Wednesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar An Adiabatic Theorem for the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation Gang Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain George Djorgovski, Caltech,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar TBA Zeev Dvir, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics, Princeton,

Thursday, October 29
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar Local spectral gap in simple Lie groups Adrian Ioana, Professor, Mathematics, UCSD,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar TBA M. Hadi Hedayatzadeh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Purdue,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Experiments Big and Small Savas Dimopoulos, The Hamamoto Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University,

Friday, October 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Emergent symmetries and 4D-2D relations for confining large N gauge theories Aleksey Cherman, Univ of Washington, Seattle,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Wave Excitation by Turbulent Stellar Convection Daniel Lecoanet, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Special HEP Seminar Lauritsen 469 The sPHENIX Detector at RHIC Dr. Craig Woody, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Lab,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Learning Seminar Abelian Varieties and polarized Hodge structures Pablo Solis, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Gauge theory on G2-manifolds Thomas Walpushi, C L E Moore Instructor, Mathematics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Optomechanics: a platform for exploring novel physics Bassam Helou, Graduate Student, Yanbei Chen's Group,