Tuesday, November 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 On the Quantum Hardness of Solving Isomorphism Problems as Nonabelian Hidden Shift Problems Pawel Wocjan, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Measurement of the CKM Matrix Element |Vub| at Belle Ilija Bizjak, Graduate Student, Experimental Partical Physics, Jozef Stefan Institute,

Wednesday, November 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Limits of Quintessence
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Joy Crisp: Spirit & Opportunity's Excellent Adventure in Mars Geology Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Beyond Dark Energy Sean Carroll, Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,

Friday, November 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Modern Updates on Non-Critical N=2 String Tadashi Takayanagi, KITP-UCSB,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Daniel Podolsky,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Calculus on Meshes—Part I
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library The KTeV Measurement of |Vus|

Saturday, November 5
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	Robert F. Bacher Symposium: Reinventing Caltech / A Vision for the Next 25 Years of PMA Ramo Auditorium

Monday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Theorist's View on the Experimental Options for Measuring theta_13 and delta Boris Kayser, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Some Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life and of Artificial Cells Albert J. Libchaber, Detlev W. Bronk Professor, Laboratory of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, The Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Applied and Computational Geometry.

Tuesday, November 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Computing, Zeroes of Zeta Functions, and Approximate Counting Willem van Dam, Professor, UCSB,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium White Dwarfs in Star Clusters
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy as a Novel Probe for Molecular Chirality Y. Ron Shen, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 New Results on Vus and Direct CP Violation from the NA48 Experiment at CERN Mayda Velasco, Associate Professor, Physics, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, November 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Highs and Lows of Accretion in Nuclear Black Holes

Thursday, November 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Understanding the Strong Interactions with Effective Theories Iain Stewart, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,

Friday, November 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quiver Quantum Mechanics for the Quintic Andrew Strominger, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Nanotube in a Periodic Potential: A Conveyer Belt for Electrons Dima Novikov,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black Hole Degeneracies, Topological Strings, and Automorphic Forms Boris Pioline, LPTHE,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Calculus on Meshes—Part II
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Phenomenology of Flavor Violation in RS Models Andrew Blechman, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Novel QCD Phenomena and the Impact of AdS/CFT

Monday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 SUSY Breaking: Minimal Deflected Anomaly Mediation Linda Carpenter, Johns Hopkins University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Time Reversal Super Resolution in Randomly Layered Media.

Tuesday, November 15
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Information's First Family, Revisited Patrick Hayden, Professor, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nanoparticle Optical Properties and Biomolecule Detection: New Challenges George C. Schatz, Morrison Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Can We Detect the Inflationary Gravity Wave Background via the CMB? Andrew E. Lange, Marvin L. Goldberger Professor, Department of Physics, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) White Dwarfs in Star Clusters
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Einstein Lecture: Kip Thorne: Einstein's General Relativity, from 1905 to 2005 Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) What's so Cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons? Bradley W. Filippone, Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, November 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topological Membranes Paul de Medeiros, Univ of Michigan,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Magneto-Optical Studies of Magnetic Multilayers and Nanostructures Stefan Visnovsky, Professor, Institute of Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exact Counting of 4D BPS Black Holes Xi Yin, Harvard University,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 The Analyst's Traveling Salesman Problem and Multiresolution Analysis
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 School Projects at the Physics Frontline Erik Johansson, Professor, Physics, Stockholm University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Studying Geoneutrinos with KamLAND

Monday, November 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LHC Olympics, a Theorist's Adventures in Collider Physics Can Kilic, Harvard,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Asymptotic Models for Spherical Flames

Tuesday, November 22
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Simulating Quantum Computation by Ccontracting Tensor Networks Yaoyun Shi, Professor, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Talk about Nothing John McGreevy, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Results from Pierre Auger Arun Tripathi, Researcher, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA,

Wednesday, November 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices and Random Partitions

Monday, November 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory John Harton, Colorado State University,

Tuesday, November 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 High-Fidelity Linear Optical Quantum Computing with Polarization Encoding Federico Spedalieri, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Initial CLEO-c Results Anders Ryd, Assistant Professor, Physics, Cornell University,

Wednesday, November 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Galactic Bulge Population: Insights into the Formation of Spheroids