Friday, October 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Atish Dabholkar, Tata Institute & Stanford,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Impurity Scattering in Superfluid 3He: A New Phase Jim Baumgardner, Graduate, Physics, Stanford University,

Monday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Measurement of Parity Violation in Electron-Electron Scattering Emlyn W. Hughes, Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Clock Theorems for the Zeros of OPUC of BLS Type Barry Simon, IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Topic to be Announced Amy Connolly, Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics and Astronomy, UCLA,

Wednesday, October 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Signposts of Planet Formation Scott J. Kenyon, Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,

Thursday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Ultra-High-Resolution Studies of (at least one) Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phase Transition Robert V. Duncan, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico,

Friday, October 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black Holes, Black Rings, and Supertubes Per Kraus, UCLA,

Monday, October 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Lepton Flavor Violation Vincenzo Cirigliano, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Astronomical Data Analysis by Multiscale Methods

Tuesday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Run II New Phenomena at DO Yuri Gershtein, Research Associate, Physics, Brown University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Photoexcitation of Molecules Imbedded in Helium Curt Wittig, Paul A. Miller Chair in Letters, Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,

Wednesday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Updates on Extrasolar Planet Detections Debra Fischer, Professor of Astronomy, San Francisco State University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	David Goodstein: Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Mesoscopic Magnetic Imaging Kathryn A. Moler, Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University,

Friday, October 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Evidence for the Strongest Version of the 4d a-Theorem, via a-Maximization Along RG Flows Ken Intriligator, professor of physics, UC San Diego,

Monday, October 18
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) E. coli in Motion Howard Berg, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Determining V(ub) with Exclusive B Decays Dan Pirjol, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Weak Lacunae of Electromagnetic Waves in Dilute Plasma

Tuesday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Quasiperiodic Jacobi Matrices of Magnetic Origin Deborah Koslover, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Top Physics at CDF and DO Charles Pager, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Fluoropolymers for Use in Next Generation Photolithography, Soft Lithography, Microfluidics and Proton Exchange Membranes Joseph M. DeSimone, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

Wednesday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Cosmology in the CFHT Legacy Survey Ray Carlberg, Professor, Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto,

Thursday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmic Superstrings Joseph Polchinski, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Friday, October 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Stability Conditions and Mirror Symmetry Pascal Grange, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Superfluid-Insulator Transition of One-Dimensional Bosons with Strong Disorder Gil Refael, Dr., (KITP),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Evidence for a Distorted Spectrum for K2K Michael Smy, , UC Irvine,

Monday, October 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Latest Developments in the Pulsed Energy Deposition of Multicomponent Films Venky Venkatesan, Professor, Physics Department, Maryland University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 X(3872) as a Loosely Bound Molecule Masaoki Kusunoki, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, October 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	LIGO Science Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) GEO600: Where Are We? Hartmut Grote, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationaphysik, Albert Einstein Institut,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle Mihai Stoiciu, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 A Measurement of The Unitarity Triangle Angle Gamma Justin Albert, Postdoctoral Scholar, High Energy Physics, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Splendor in the Rings: What Cassini Found When It Finally Got to Saturn Carolyn C. Porco, adjunct professor, department of planetary sciences and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona and University of Colorado in Boulder,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Michael H. Dickinson: How Flies Fly Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Kinematics and Dark Energy from Supernovae at z>1 Adam Riess, Dr., Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI),

Friday, October 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 From One-Loop Effective Actions to the Background Geometry Alexander Gorsky, ITEP, Moscow,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Noise and Quantum Measurements in Fermi Systems Israel Klich, Condensed Matter Physics, CIT,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced David Mateos, Perimeter Institute,
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Memorial Service for J. Beverley Oke Athenaeum
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library TeV Astrophysics with Milagro Gaurang Yodh, professor, department of physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,