Monday, May 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 EDM Searches: High Energy Physics on a Tabletop David Kawall, Univ of Massachusetts,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture - CANCELED Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Some Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life and of Artificial Cells Albert Libchaber, Professor, The Rockefeller University,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensate

Tuesday, May 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Carbon Dioxide and Unusual Isotope Effects: From Single Collisions to Global Climate Change Kristie A. Boering, Professor, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore B280 You Need Never Retreat Peter Winkler, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College,

Wednesday, May 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Bumps, Wiggles, and Holes in the Sky; Exploring the Early Universe

Thursday, May 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Gamma-Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission Neil Gehrels, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,

Friday, May 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent Developments in AdS/CFT and Sasaki-Einstein Geometry James Sparks, Harvard,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Cutting Random Trees
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Toward a First Principles Description of Atomic Nuclei
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Beckman Institute Auditorium The Quantum Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Superfluids Subir Sachdev, Professor, Department of Physics, Yale University,

Monday, May 9
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Thesis Seminar Zeros of Random Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle Mihai Stoiciu, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Thesis Seminar Lax Pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System via Othogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle Irina Nenciu, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nonperturbative Approach to SU(2)/SU(3) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Some of Its Implications for Particle Physics and Cosmology Ralf Hofmann, Universitaet Heidelberg and Universitaet Frankfurt,

Tuesday, May 10
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanofluidic Transistors Peidong Yang, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Bipartite Entanglement in the Stabilizer Formalism David Fattal, Department of Physics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, May 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Removable and Nonremovable Zero Lyapunov Exponents
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Thesis Seminar On p-Adic Estimates of Weights in Abelian Codes over Galois Rings Daniel Katz, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) From Cores to Disks with Spitzer

Thursday, May 12
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Thesis Seminar Descriptive Properties of Measure Preserving Actions and the Associated Unitary Representations Tzer-Jen Wei, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Systems Biology: Deciphering the Networks of Life Leroy Hood, President, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington,

Friday, May 13
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 An Entropy Technique in Combinatorics
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Lattice QCD with Domain-Wall Fermions

Monday, May 16
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Special High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Reconstruction of All Yang-Mills Supersymmetric Theories from Topological Symmetry Laurent Baulieu, LPTHE,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Bumps and Bangs: Looking for Dark Matter in Our Galactic Neighborhood Peter Fisher, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Localized Nonblowup Conditions for 3-D Incompressible Euler Equations.

Tuesday, May 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 A Theory of Quantum Gravity Based on Quantum Computation Seth Lloyd, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Atmospheric Neutrinos in the MINOS Far Detector Caius Howcroft, PDS, High Energy Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Source Modeling, Detection and Science of Gravitational Waves Emitted by Precessing Compact Binaries Alessandra Buonanno, Prof., AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris, FRANCE,

Wednesday, May 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Kellogg Seminar - TIME CHANGED Lauritsen Library
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Halo: The Local High Redshift Universe

Thursday, May 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Hyperpolarized Xenon and Krypton in NMR Spectroscopy and MR Imaging Thomas Meersmann, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Fort Collins,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Bringing Hearing to the Deaf—Cochlear Implants: A Technical and Personal Account Ian Shipsey, Professor of Physics, Purdue University,

Friday, May 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauging Noneffective Group Actions and Mirror Symmetry Eric Sharpe, University of Utah,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Thesis Seminar The Twisted Weighted Fundamental Lemma for Transfer from GSp(4) to GL(4) David Whitehouse, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Shape Restricted Estimation in the Search for Dark Matter
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Generalized Parton Distributions from Lattice QCD

Monday, May 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Parity Violating Electron Scattering: Past, Present and Future Krishna Kumar, UMass,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) On the Performance of a Class of Local Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Acoustic Scattering from Elliptical Shapes.

Tuesday, May 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum State Reconstruction via Continuous Measurement Andrew Silberfarb, University of New Mexico,

Wednesday, May 25
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Polarized Electron Scattering from the Vector/Tensor Polarized Deuterium Gas Target at BLAST
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Resonant Rings: The Kuiper Belt and Beyond
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Construction of Artificial Boundary Conditions and Their Discretization for Linear (1d and 2d) and Nonlinear (1d) Schrödinger Equations
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Nathan Lewis: Powering the Planet Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Combinatorics Seminar Statistics on Permutation Groups, Canonical Words, and Pattern Avoidance Yuval Roichman, Prof., Mathematics, Bar-Ilan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Engineering Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Many-Body Physics in Semiconductor Nanostructures David Goldhaber-Gordon, Assistant Professor of Physics, Experimental Condensed Matter, Stanford University,

Friday, May 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The M-Theory/Type II Partition Functions and Generalized Cohomology Hisham Sati, Univ of Adelaide,
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Introduction to Algorithmic Mechanism Design

Tuesday, May 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Adiabatic Computation: From Hilbert's Tenth Problem to the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Quantum Phase Transition Tien D Kieu, Professor, Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Multidimensional Coherent Vibrational Spectroscopy of Peptides: Femtosecond Snapshots of Structure and Dynamics Shaul Mukamel, Chancellor Professor, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine,