Thursday, March 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Researching Einstein: Star-Clusters, Eclipses, and Anti-Relativity 1918–1921 Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald, professor of history, Caltech,

Friday, March 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Pavel Kovtun, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Expanders, Groups, and Applications

Monday, March 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Causality in Effective Field Theories Alejandro Jenkins, research associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium—CANCELLED Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Approximation for rationally connected varieties over function fields of curves Brendan Hassett, professor of mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, March 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Decoherence in Josephson Qubits: Noise Phenomenological Model and Its Microscopic Origin Lara Faoro, postdoctoral fellow, department of physics and astronomy, Rutgers University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Unveiling Distant Star-Forming Galaxies through Absorption-Line Observations Hsiao-Wen Cheng, assistant professor, department of astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 248 ILC Tracker Timothy K. Nelson, research scientist, Linear Collider Detector, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Gaussianity of LISA's Confusion Background from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals Etienne Racine, postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Taussky-Todd Lecture Gersgorin and His Circles Richard Varga, professor of mathematical sciences, Kent State University,

Wednesday, March 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Phase Transitions in Quantum-Spin Systems at Positive Temperatures Marek Biskup, associate professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering? David H. Weinberg, professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Global Climate Change: John Seinfeld Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, March 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Jasons Ann Finkbeiner, visiting associate professor, Johns Hopkins University,

Friday, March 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Reconstructing 1/2 BPS Geometries from N = 4 SYM Samuel Vazquez, department of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity? Kirill Krasnov, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library The Race to Detect Dark Matter with Noble Liquids, and the Status of XENON10 Thomas Shutt, associate professor of physics, Case Western Reserve University,

Monday, March 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Competition and Ultrasensitivity in the Regulation of Wee1 James E. Ferrell, professor, department of molecular pharmacology and department of biochemistry, Stanford University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Relaxation of Crystal Surfaces through Step Flow Models

Tuesday, March 13
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Contextuality and Nonclassicality Robert Spekkens, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Measuring Cosmological Parameters Wendy Freedman, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,

Wednesday, March 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Diversity in Young Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Puzzle Victoria Kaspi, associate professor, department of physics, McGill University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Fundamentals and Application of Slow and Fast Light Professor Robert Boyd, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester,

Friday, March 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Extremal Black Holes Entropy and Topological Strings Kirill Saraikin, department of physics, Harvard University,

Monday, March 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Dependence Harald Fritzsch, Universität München,

Tuesday, March 20
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium New Views of the High Redshift Universe Peng Oh, assistant professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Matter—Antimatter Oscillations at Three Trillion Hertz Ivan Furic, postdoctoral scholar in physics, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, March 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy: Status and Perspectives Felix Aharonian, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics,

Friday, March 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higher Spins, Lichnerowicz Algebras, and Superparticles Andrew Waldron, associate professor of mathematics, UC Davis,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 The Low-Temperature Phases of Polarized Fermionic Superfluids Daniel Sheehy, postdoctoral research associate, department of physics and astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames,

Monday, March 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs Effective Field Theory Michael Trott, physicist, UC San Diego,

Tuesday, March 27
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Latest Results from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: Three-Year Observations Eiichiro Komatsu, assistant professor of astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 B Meson Decays to Three-Body Charmless Hadronic Final States Alexei Y. Garmash, associate research physicist, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Simulations of the Multi-Scale Motions of Proteins Yi-Qin Gao, assistant professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optical Interactions of Photonic Crystal Fibers Alexander Gaeta, professor of applied and engineering physics, Cornell University,

Wednesday, March 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Asymptotics on Heisenberg Manifolds Mahta Khosravi, postdoctoral member, school of mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) New Insights into Star Formation in Galaxies from Spitzer Robert Kennicutt, junior professor and astronomer, Cambridge University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Reheating of the Universe after Infation with f(phi)R Gravity: Spontaneous Decay of Inflatons to Bosons, Fermions, and Gauge Bosons Eiichiro Komatsu, assistant professor of astronomy, University of Texas at Austin,

Thursday, March 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmological Simulations of Clusters of Galaxies: Status, Problems, Challenges Andrey Kravtsov, associate professor, department of astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago,

Friday, March 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories and Supergroup Sigma Models Hubert Saleur, professor of theoretical statistical mechanics, USC,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Cold Bosonic Atoms in Magnetically Frustrated Lattices Dagim Tilahun, graduate student in physics, The University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Can Dark Matter Turn into Light and Bright Matter? Hasan Yüksel, postdoctoral research associate, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Prospects for Diffractive and Forward Physics at the LHC Monika Grothe, assistant scientist in high energy physics, University of Wisconsin, Turin,