Monday, November 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 How Eternal Inflation Can Explain the Second Law of Thermodynamics Sean Carroll, University of Chicago,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Exact and Practical Ways to Unfurl a Data Manifold

Tuesday, November 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Theory for Discrete Quasi-Periodic Schrödinger Operators Silvius Klein, Graduate Student, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Entanglement Entropy of Random Critical Points in One Dimension Gil Refael, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Dynamics and Energetics of CH4 and NH3 Activation at Size-Selected Transition Metal Clusters Peter B. Armentrout, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Art and Science of Making a Major Technical Decision: Choosing the Technology for the International Linear Collider Barry Barish, Roland & Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, LIGO/HEP, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) New Insights on Galaxies from Spitzer

Thursday, November 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Attosecond Science Paul Corkum, Professor, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein in Space—A Marriage of Physics and Technology C.W. Francis Everitt, Professor (Research), W.W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University,

Friday, November 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic Cascades for D-branes on Singularities Sebastian Franco, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 From Spin-Wave to Artificial Light in a Spin System Xiao-Gang Wen, Professor, Department of Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology ,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS/CFT Correspondence for Half-BPS States Oleg Lunin, IAS,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Computational Complexity in Robust Control Theory
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Neutron Star Matter Equation of State and Gravitational Wave Emission Omar Benhar, INFN, University of Rome, La Sapienza,

Monday, November 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Heavy Quark Symmetry in Isosinglet Nonleptonic B-decays Sonny Mantry, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Mysterious Meanderings of Myxobacteria George Oster, Professor, University of California, Berkeley,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Algebraic Geometry for the Multivariate Spline

Tuesday, November 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Exploring Quantum Control with Quantum Information Processors David Poulin, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 QCD Physics at the Tevatron Andrey Korytov, Associate Professor, Physics, University of Florida,

Wednesday, November 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Spatially Resolved Galaxy Dynamics at High Redshift Reinhard Genzel, Professor , Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Christof Koch: The Quest for Consciousness Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Complexity John Doyle, Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, Caltech,

Friday, November 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gravitational Phase Transitions from a Field Theory Perspective Ofer Aharony, Weizmann Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 New Results in 4He Under Downward Heat Flow Near Tλ Stephen Boyd, Professor, Physics, University of New Mexico,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Causality and Time in String Theory and String Field Theory Ted Erler, UC Santa Barbara,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Computational Complexity in Robust Control Theory
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library The Electron-Antineutrino Correlation in Neutron Beta Decay Fred Wietfeldt, Professor, Tulane University, Fred Wietfeldt, Professor, department of physics, Tulane University,

Monday, November 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Phenomenology of a Little Higgs with T-Parity Jay Hubisz, Cornell,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Graph Partitioning, Clustering with Qualitative Information, and Grothendieck-Yype Inequalities

Tuesday, November 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Attractors and the Holomorphic Anomaly Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Space-Time Area Law: A Successful QCD Based Foundation for Hadronization Shahriah Abachi, Assistant Researcher, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 LIGO-TAMA Joint Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts Patrick Sutton, Sr. Postdoctoral Scholar, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Conformations and Aggregation States of Biologically Important Systems: Oligonucleotides, G-Quadraplexes, Peptides and Proteins Michael T. Bowers, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Formation Crystal Martin, Dr., department of physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, November 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Disentangling the Strong Force: QCD, Factorization, and the b Quark Michael Luke, Professor and Interim Chair, Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Toronto,

Friday, November 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Finite Metric Spaces and Their Embeddings
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Underground Laboratory Wick Haxton, Professor, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington,

Monday, November 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spin Physics at STAR: First Results and Future Measurements Renee Fatemi, Indiana University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Multifractal Analysis of Signals

Tuesday, November 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Continuum Solvent Models: Development and Application to Environmental Chemistry Problems Christopher J. Cramer, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Supercomputer Institute, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,

Monday, November 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Covariant Multiloop Superstring Amplitudes Nathan Berkovits, IFT, Sao Paulo University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supersymmetry Breaking and the Landscape Michael Dine, UCSC,

Tuesday, November 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Recent Results from KLOE at DAFNE Matteo Palutan, Research Scientist, Physics, INFN, Frascati,