Wednesday, January 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Some Aspects of Spectral Perturbation Theory in W* Algebras Anna Skripka, graduate student in mathematics, University of Missouri—Columbia,

Thursday, January 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon Philip Kim, associate professor in physics, Columbia University,

Monday, January 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Charmed Resonances and Effective Field Theory Thomas Mehen, assistant professor of physics, Duke University,

Tuesday, January 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Error-Correcting Codes for Adiabatic Quantum Computation Stephen Jordan, graduate student in physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 MEMS-Actuated Microresonators and Optofluidics Ming Wu, professor of oceanography and atmospheric sciences, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 "Reinventing the Accelerator For the High-Energy Frontier" James Rosenzweig, professor of physics , Department of Astronomy and Physics, UCLA,

Wednesday, January 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Criterion for Hill Operators to Be Spectral Operators of Scalar Type Vadim Tkachenko, professor of mathematics, Ben Gurion University,

Thursday, January 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) March of the Penguins: The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics David Hitlin, professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, January 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Keith Spalding 410 Open-Closed String Correspondence in Background Independent String Field Theory Ivo Sachs, professor of theoretical physics, LMU Munich,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Dynamics of Nonlinear Coupled Nanomechanical Resonators Ron Lifshitz, senior lecturer in physics, Tel Aviv University,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Geometric Models for Dimensionality Reduction in Signal and Data Processing

Tuesday, January 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Copy-Protection Scott Aaronson, postdoctoral scholar, University of Waterloo,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Space Interferometry Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More Shrinivas Kulkarni, director, Caltech Optical Observatories, and MacArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 CMS Test BEAM Chris Rogan, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Planar Networks, Cluster Algebras, and Integrable Systems Michael Gekhtman, associate professor of mathematics, University of Notre Dame,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Influence of Young Embedded Clusters on Star/Planet Formation Fred Adams, professor, department of physics, University of Michigan,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Booming Sand Dunes: Melany Hunt Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Computational Intractability as a Law of Physics Scott Aaronson, postdoctoral scholar, Institute for Quantum Computing and department of combinatorics and optimization, University of Waterloo,

Friday, January 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Decoding Bulk Geometry from Gauge Theory Correlators Veronika Hubeny, department of mathematical sciences, University of Durham,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Phase Transitions and Ergodicity in Driven Foams Michael Dennin, associate professor of physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Geometric Models for Dimensionality Reduction in Signal and Data Processing

Monday, January 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Falsifying Models of New Physics via WW Scattering Benjamin Grinstein, professor of physics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Integration of Cytoskeletal Systems in Directed Cell Migration Clare Waterman-Storer, associate professor of cell biology, the Scripps Research Institute,

Tuesday, January 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Superpolynomial Speedups Using Almost Any Quantum Circuit Aram Harrow, lecturer, department of computer science, University of Bristol,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective Timothy Heckman, professor, department of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,

Wednesday, January 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Uniqueness Results for CMV Operators with Matrix-Valued Verblunsky Coefficients Maxim Zinchenko, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Large-Scale Structures in COSMOS: Galaxy Evolution and Dark Matter Nick Scoville, Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Caltech, Jason Rhodes, scientist in cosmology, JPL,

Thursday, January 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Something Old, Something New: Resurrecting Detector Technologies in Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics Juan Collar, assistant professor of physics, University of Chicago,

Friday, January 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Dimensions for Wound Strings and D-duality Eva Silverstein, professor of theoretical physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Edge Coloring with Delays
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library How Carbon Burns Determine the Black Hole Central Engine and Type Ibcd Hypernova of GRB 060218/SN 20006 aj Gerald Brown, distinguished professor of physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optics and Quantum-Optics in Semiconductor Nanostructures Stephan Koch, physics department, Philips-University Marburg, Germany,

Monday, January 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nongeometric String Backgrounds Chris Hull, Imperial College, London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Two-photon physics at e+e- colliders Bertrand Echenard, postdoctoral scholar, division of pyhsics, mathematics and astronomy, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Bounds on Self-Dual Codes and Lattices

Tuesday, January 30
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Beyond Dark Energy Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy Richard A. Mathies, professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Topic to be announced. David Barnhill, graduate student researcher in physics, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Baseball, Shakespeare, and Modern Statistical Theory Bradley Efron, professor of statistics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Wanted (Dead or Alive): The Progenitors of Massive Galaxies Pieter van Dokkum, associate professor of astronomy, Yale University,