Monday, February 15
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	34th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 16
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	34th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Prashant K. Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Optimizing Electromagnetic Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Events Hsin-Yu Chen, Physics, University of Chicago,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The topological sectors in gauge theories. The deSitter vacuum during inflationary and dark Energy phases. Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Logic Seminar Weak containment of measure preserving group actions Peter Burton, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unmasking the Neutrino: The Standard Model and Beyond Diana Parno, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium AGN Host Galaxies, Fueling, and Feedback to z ~ 2 Prof. Alison Coil, UCSD,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The Arrow of Time Jurg Frohlich, Prof. Dr., Physics, IAS and ETH Z¨urich,

Wednesday, February 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Seminar East Bridge 114 Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Effective Dynamics in Quantum Theory Juerg Froehlich, Professor, Physics, ETH Zurich and IAS Princeton,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Atom and Photon-Photon Interactions based on Single-Photon Raman Interaction (SPRINT) Barak Dayan, Senior Scientist, Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute of Science,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Noncommutative Rational Surfaces and Special Functions Eric Rains, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New frontiers in Cosmology Yacine Ali-Haimoud, John Hopkins,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Noncommutative Geometry Seminar Analysis on Fractal Manifolds and Noncommutative Geometry: A Tale of Metrics, Hausdorff Measures and Geodesics Michel Lapidus, Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and of Computer Science and Engineering, UCR,

Thursday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Prof. Simon White, MPA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Fundamental Lessons From String Theory Cumrun Vafa, Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, February 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Classical and Quantum Black Hole Hair Dieter Luest, LMU,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and M-Theory Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium EFT of large scale structure, symmetries and constraints Mehrdad Mirbabayi, IAS Scholar, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms Hannah Price, Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento in Italy,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescope Evan Kirby, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Saturday, February 20
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Logic in Southern California