Monday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Chemical Analysis of the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy Bruno Letarte, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Modeling of Microstructure and Its Evolution in Shape

Tuesday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 From Belle to a Super B Factory Masashi Hazumi, associate professor of experimental high energy physics, INPS KEK,

Wednesday, October 3
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Firestone 308 Toward a Mathematical Theory of Financial Market Dynamics
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Makarov's Law of the Iterated Logarithm for SLE Nam-Gyu Kang, Olga Taussky and John Todd Instructor in Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Prospects for Detecting Primordial Gravitational Radiation via the CMB Andrew Lange, Goldberger Professor of Physics, Caltech, and senior research scientist, JPL,

Thursday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Neutrino CP Violation Deep Underground Bill Marciano, Brookhaven National Lab,

Friday, October 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Stringy Instantons, Geometric Transitions, and Dynamical SUSY Breaking Shamit Kachru, professor of physics, Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Monday, October 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Back to the Future: The Lee-Wick Standard Model Mark Wise, McCone Professor of High Energy Physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 9
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Redshift Evolution of Galactic Structures (Bars, Bulges, & Disks) at z<1 from COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence Kartik Sheth, research scientist, IRS Instrument Team, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Enriched Xenon Observatory for Double Beta Decay Andrea Pocar, postdoctoral scholar in neutrino physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Interfacing Analytical and Numerical Relativity in the Modeling of Binary Black-Hole Coalescences Alessandra Buonanno, associate professor of physics, University of Maryland,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Extending N! to Functions on the Real and P-adic Numbers, and their Values at Rational Arguments Benedict Gross, Leverett Professor of Mathematics , Harvard University,

Wednesday, October 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On Jacobi Matrices with Random Decaying Perturbations Jonathan Breuer, Sherman Fairchild Postdoc in Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Direct Product Theorems for Communication Complexity via Sub-Distribution Bounds with Application to Communication-Entanglement Trade-Offs in Quantum Communication Protocols Rahul Jain, postdoctoral research fellow in computer science, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Megamasers, the Hubble Constant, and Dark Energy Jim Braatz, associate scientist, Natoinal Radio Astronomy Observatory,

Thursday, October 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Jamming Andrea Liu, professor of condensed matter theory, The University of Pennsylvania,

Friday, October 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Phenomenology of (Extra)Ordinary Gauge Mediation David Shih, Institute for Advanced Study,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supersymmetry Breaking Vacua from M-Theory Fivebranes Luca Mazzucato, Tel-Aviv University,

Monday, October 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Classical Renormalization of Codimension-Two Brane Couplings Claudia de Rham, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Probing Cosmology with X-ray Galaxy Clusters David Rapetti, experimental research associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and KIPAC,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Exact Regularization of Convex Programs

Tuesday, October 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Simple Universal Hamiltonians Peter Love, assistant professor of physics, Harvard University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Can AGN Quency Star Formation? New Clues from the Study of Fossil Galactic Winds in Post-Starburst Galaxies at z=0.6 Christy Tremonti, postdoctoral fellow, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 "Software and Computing for the LHC" and "EVO Current and Future Developments" Julian Bunn, member of the professional staff in high energy physics, Caltech, Dave Adamczyk, research engineer in high energy physics, Caltech,

Wednesday, October 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library The Neutron EDM Experiment at ILL James Karamath, graduate student in physics, University of Sussex,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Protoplanetary Disks in the Inner AU Joshua Eisner, Miller Fellow, department of astronomy, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Muon Overview Bill Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Hubbert's Peak, Coal and Climate Change: David B. Rutledge Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Neutrinos: The Dark Side of the Light Fermions Alexander Kusenko, professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA,

Friday, October 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Sergio Ferrara, professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA, and CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Mucap Thomas Banks, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC Berkeley,

Monday, October 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Topic to be announced. Ali Vanderveld, postdoctoral scholar, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Light Scalar at the LHC: Higgs or Dilaton? Walter Goldberger, associate professor of physics, Yale University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Multiscale Models of Solid Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis: Effect of the Microenvironment

Tuesday, October 23
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Dark Energy Survey Darren DePoy, professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Neutrino Mass from Tritium Beta Decay: From Mainz to KATRIN Bjorn Flatt, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, October 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Massive SLEs Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies Joshua Simon, Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy, Caltech,

Thursday, October 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster than a Classical Computer Edward Farhi, professor of physics and director of the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,

Friday, October 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Cascading Quiver and the MSSM John Heckman, Harvard University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) What Is Delocalization? The Creutz-Taube Ion as Delphic Oracle Noel S. Hush, professor of chemistry, emeritus, The University of Sydney, Australia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Particle Physics with a Torsion Pendulum: A New Axion Search Seth Hoedl, postdoctoral fellow, Center for Experimental Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Special Seminar East Bridge 114 Rotating Photons Steven van Enk, associate professor of physics, University of Oregon,

Monday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 New Results on the Abundances and Kinematics in the M31 Halo from 10-150 kpc Andreas Koch, postdoctoral scholar in physics and astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 GenEvA: A New Framework For Event Generation Frank Tackmann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Memory, Sudoku, Action Potential Synchrony, and Not-Always-Correct Neural Computation John J. Hopfield, professor of molecular biology, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Augmentation Preconditioners for Saddle Point Linear Systems

Tuesday, October 30
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Topological Field Theory and Representation Theory David Ben-Zvi, assistant professor in geometry research, The University of Texas at Austin,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Life Cycle of Baryons in Galaxy Groups Jesper Rasmussen, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Robert McKeown, professor of physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electronics, Optoelectronics, and Plasmonics Based on Individual Nanostructures Hongkun Park, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University,

Wednesday, October 31
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Monodromy of Higher-Order Selberg Integrals Eric Rains, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nonperturbative Effects in Matrix Models and Topological Strings Marlene Weiss, CERN and ETH, Zurich,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Clustering of Galaxies and Black Holes at z~1 Alison Coil, postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, University of Arizona, Tucson,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Mass Scales and Unparticle Physics at the LHC Devin Walker, visitor in physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 APh/OSA Optics Seminar: Engineering Optical Space with Metamaterials: From Magnetics to Negative-Index and Cloaking Vladimir Shalaev, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Purdue University,