Thursday, November 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Quantum Hall Effect, Non-Abelian Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation Chetan Nayak, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Station Q and Professor of Physics, UCSB,

Friday, November 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Tales from a Braneworld Luca Grisa, graduate student in physics, New York University,

Monday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Probing the Decline of Star Formation Since z=1 Jason Melbourne, postdoctoral scholar in physics, mathematics and astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Physics with Cold Atoms Asimina Arvanitaki, graduate student in theoretical physics, Stanford University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Sensitivity Analysis, Model Reduction, and Circadian Oscillators

Tuesday, November 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 The Power of Quantum Systems on a Line Sandy Irani, professor of information and computer science, UC Irvine,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxy Formation Feedback and the Early Chemical Enrichment of Intergalactic Matter Rob Simcoe, assistant professor of physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Playing Extreme Sports with Single Biological Molecules Taekjip Ha, associate professor of physics, The University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, November 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Fun and Games with the CD Kernel Barry Simon, International Business Machines Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Calabi-Yau Metrics and the Solutions of the Laplacian Volker Braun, postdoctoral scholar in physics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 The Optical Antenna: A Versatile Tool for Nanophotonics Ken Crozier, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) From Massive Cores to Massive Stars Mark Krumholz, Hubble Fellow in astrophysics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Isaac Newton and the Origins of Civilization: Jed Z. Buchwald Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Noble Travails: XENON10, LUX and Other Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter Rick Gaitskell, associate professor of physics and head of the particle astrophysics group, Brown University,

Friday, November 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exploring Holographic Approaches to QCD Umut Gursoy, École Polytechnique,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Rank Minimization over Affine Sets

Monday, November 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Making Use of Dynamic Instability at the Microtubule-Kinetochore Interface Eva Nogales, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Getting Lucky at Palomar: 2x HST Resolution in the Visible Nicholas Law, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Smoking Guns for Light Resonances at the LHC Ira Rothstein, assistant professor of physics, Carnegie Mellon University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Fast Directional Multilevel Algorithms for Oscillatory Kernels

Tuesday, November 13
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 The Quantum Phase Transition to Topological Order and Topological Entropy Alioscia Hamma, postdoctoral scholar in quantum information and quantum theory, USC,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The First Stars in the Universe: Birth, Death and Rebirth Greg Bryan, assistant professor of astronomy, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Integrated Computational Biology: From the Molecule to the Cell J. Andrew McCammon, professor of theoretical chemistry, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Taming a Monster Steve Nahn, assistant professor of physics, MIT,

Wednesday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center Warren Brown, associate of the Harvard College Observatory, Harvard University,

Thursday, November 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Condensed Matter Physics with Cold Atomic Gases Leo Radzihovsky, professor of physics, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Friday, November 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spectral Curve for the Heisenberg Ferromagnet and AdS/CFT Niklas Beisert, Max-Planck Institut for Physics, Potsdam,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS Spacetimes and Kaluza-Klein Consistency Oscar Varela, academic visitor in theoretical physics, Imperial College London,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Rank Minimization over Affine Sets (II)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Gamma Ray Telescope Rene Ong, professor of physics, UCLA,

Monday, November 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Early Results from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey Graham Smith, postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Curved Space, Monsters and Black Hole Entropy Stephen Hsu, professor of physics, University of Oregon,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Free Boundary Problems for Fractional Laplacians

Tuesday, November 20
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Topological Phases with and without External Symmetry Alexei Kitaev, professor of theoretical physics and computer science, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments Eduardo Novais, postdoctoral research associate in physics, Duke University,
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Memorial Service for John Todd Athenaeum
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Improving the Bandwidth and Stability of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors with Suspension Point Interferometers Yoichi Aso, postdoctoral research scientist in physics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 PFA Jet Management and Digital HCAL for the Future International Linear Collider Lei Xia, physicist, Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Chemistry, Physics, and Biological Aspects of Carbon Nanomaterials Hongjie Dai, Jackson-Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 21
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 MSSM-like Models from Strings Akin Wingerter, postdoctoral researcher in physics, Ohio State University,

Monday, November 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Stars, Gas, and Dust in Ellipticals: The Mass-Metallicity Relation in Different Galactic Components Antonio Pipino, research assistant in astrophysics, Oxford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Matter Searches Sunil Golwala, assistant professor of physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Non-CMC Solutions of the Einstein Constraint Equations and Convergent Adaptive Algorithms

Tuesday, November 27
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Dissecting the Milky Way with SDSS and LSST Zeljko Ivezic, professor of astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar—CANCELLED Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shimon Weiss, professor of chemistry, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The XENON Dark Matter Experiment and Its Future Maria Elena Monzani, postdoctoral research scientist, astronomy and astrophysics, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Effects of Slow IVR on Some Important Atmospheric Reactions John R. Barker, professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences, and professor of chemistry, University of Michigan,

Wednesday, November 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Nonlinear Dynamics of a System of Particle-Like Wavepackets Alex Figotin, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Fuel for Galaxy Disks Mary Putman, assistant professor of astronomy, University of Michigan,

Thursday, November 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Threat to the Planet: Dark and Bright Sides of Global Warming James Hansen, director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and adjunct professor of earth and environmental sciences, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Can Silicon Change Photonics? Bahram Jalali, professor of electrical engineering, UCLA,

Friday, November 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Geometric Phases in String Theory Julian Sonner, department of applied mathematics and theoretical physics, University of Cambridge,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Progress in AdS_3/CFT_2 Ari Pakman, Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Neutron Interferometry Sam Werner, professor of physics, emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia,