Friday, May 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spiky Strings and Spin Chains Nick Dorey, professor of theoretical physics, University of Cambridge,

Monday, May 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 "An Optical Gas Microscope for Quantum Simulation" Simon Foelling, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Hidden Fermionic Dark Matter in Neutrino Detectors Jennifer Kile, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Hidden Structures in Homogenization and Inverse Homogenization

Tuesday, May 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Multi Prover Interactive Proofs with Communicating Provers Avinatan Hassidim, postdoctoral associate, Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Finding the Goodies in the SDSS Quasar Archive Todd Boroson, National Optical Astronomy Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronics and Sensors Ted Kamins, principal scientist, Quantum Science Research Group, Hewlett-Packard Labs,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Recent Developments in Heavy Flavor Meson Spectrscopy Alexander Rakitin, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Gas-Surface Chemical Reactions and Molecule Survival at High Collision Energies Konstantinos P. Giapis, associate professor of chemical engineering, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part I

Wednesday, May 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Stratified Analyticity of the Lyapunov Exponent and the Global Theory of One-Frequency Schrodinger Operators Artur Avila, Centre Nationale de Recherche,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Ptolemy's Cosmology, the First Scientific Cosmology Noel Swerdlow, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Thursday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Seeing the Beginning of the Universe Benjamin Wandelt, Associate Professor of Physics, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, currently on sabbatical at Caltech and JPL,

Friday, May 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Nuclear Force from String Theory Koji Hashimoto, senior research scientist, RIKEN,

Monday, May 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Models for X-Ray Binaries: Galactic and Extragalactic Populations Tassos Fragos, graduate student, Northwestern Universtiy,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Vortex Loops and the Superfluid Phase Transition Gary A. Williams, professor of physics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) High Throughput Bacterial Electron Cryotomography Grant Jensen, associate professor of biology, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Physics, QCD Radiation and MadGraph/MadEvent at the LHC Johan Alwall, postdoctoral scholar, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Tuesday, May 12
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium On Rocky Exoplanets Geoff Marcy, professor of astronomy, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays Alberto Sesana, postdoctoral scholar in physics, the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Single Molecule Probing of Dynamic Conformation, Molecular Interactions and Dynamic Localizations In-vitro, in Live Cells and in Small Organisms Shimon Weiss, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Fluid Approaches to Optics and Imaging Jason Fleischer, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Some Topics in Algorithmic Mechanism Design Part II

Wednesday, May 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Asymptotics of OPRL for a Weight with a Jump: (Lack of) Universality and Clock Behavior Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, professor of mathematics, Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Is the Universe Homogeneous and Isotropic? Marc Kamionkowski, Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Caltech,

Thursday, May 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Superfluid ^4He Matter Wave Interferometers – Physics and Applications Yuki Sato, postdoctoral researcher, UC Berkeley,

Friday, May 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 To be announced. Martin Schnabl, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,

Monday, May 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Non-Evanescent Physics of Evanescent Waves: Polaritonic Effects from Nanotube Transistors to NEMS Slava V. Rotkin, professor of physics, Lehigh University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spontaneous R-parity Violation In Supersymmetry Pavel Fileviez Perez, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Topic to be announced. Colette Salyk, graduate student, Geology and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Convex Algebraic Geometry

Tuesday, May 19
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Topic to be announced. Matthew Elliott, postdoctoral scholar in physics, University of Southern Indiana,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies at High Redshift Casey Papovich, observational astronomer and astrophysicist, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Properties and Potential Applications of Gold Nanoparticles Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Regents Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and director, Laser Dynamics Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The CERN Axion Solar Telescope Michael Pivovaroff, physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Information Inequalities

Wednesday, May 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Infinite Gap Case Jacob S. Christiansen, research fellow in mathematical sciences, University of Copenhagen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Massive Galaxy and Black Hole Formation Back to within 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang Dominik A. Riechers, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Niles Pierce: In Pursuit of Programmable Molecular Technologies Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Nano-opto-mechanics: Utilizing Light Forces within Guided-Wave Nanostructures Oskar Painter, associate professor of applied physics, Caltech,

Friday, May 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Rapid Scale Dependent CFT Thermalization from Gravity Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar & GALCIT Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond Panayotis Kevrekidis, associate professor of mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Testing the Origin of Neutrino Masses at the LHC Pavel Fileviez Perez, research associate in physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Tuesday, May 26
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Complex Evolution of Simple Systems Mario Mateo, professor of astronomy, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Recent Advances in InP-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits Larry Coldren, professor of optoelectronics and photonics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Puzzling Protons: Signatures of Large Amplitude Motions in Protonated and Hydrogen-Bonded Systems Anne B. McCoy, professor of chemistry, The Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planck: History, Status, and Prospects Krzysztof Gorski, JPL,

Wednesday, May 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Statistics of Quasiperiodic Eigenvalues Svetlana Jitomirskaya, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Very High Energy Universe Rene Ong, UCLA,

Thursday, May 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Order of Magnitude Biology Rob Phillips, professor of applied physics and mechanical engineering, Caltech,

Friday, May 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Stable Non-supersymmetric Throats in String Theory Dusan Simic, graduate student in physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 IR Divergences of Gauge-Theory Amplitudes and Resummation for LHC Matthias Neubert, University of Mainz,