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	Analysis Seminar Linde Hall 187 Some problems and results on logarithmic potentials in prime number theory Vesselin Dimitrov, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
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,

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	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,
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,

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	Number Theory Seminar Linde Hall 387 Covers of P^1 and number fields Sameera Vemulapalli, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University,
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,

Friday, April 12
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,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event Strings From Feynman Diagrams Edward Mazenc, ETH, Zurich,
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	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,
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,
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	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,
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,

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	Logic Seminar Online Event Groups without unitary representations, submeasures, and the escape property Sławomir Solecki, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University,
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,
12:15 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 - 5:30 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,
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,

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 - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Online Event Triple Grid Diagrams Sarah Blackwell, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia,
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
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 - 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,
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Caltech Study Hub - Gravitational Wave Open Data Workshop West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)

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
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 TBA Adebisi Agboola, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Voices of the Ice: A Seismic Odyssey to the South Pole Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Colloquium Online and In-Person Event Adam Kaufman, JILA/NIST,
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	Movies That Matter presents "Chasing Ice" Beckman Auditorium

Friday, April 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Online and In-Person Event TBA Victor Rodriguez, Princeton University,
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 TBA Yohei Ema, University of Minnesota & FTPI,
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
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,