Monday, November 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Timing the Starburst AGN-Connection Vivienne Wild, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) What Biology Can Do for Physics: Landscapes in Physics and Biology Robert H. Austin, professor of physics, Princeton University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz Equation
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 CDF in Its Prime: Searches for b', Z' and Friends Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Random Quantum Satisfiability: Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Optimization Chris Laumann, graduate student in theoretical physics, Princeton University,

Tuesday, November 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Categorically Isolating Quantum Properties Chris Heunen, graduate student, University of Oxford,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Nature of the ISM in Star-forming galaxies at z~2~3: Surprising New Results Alice Shapley, associate professor of astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Liquid Vapor Interface of Aqueous Solutions: Composition, Chemistry, and Acid/Base Properties John C. Hemminger, professor of chemistry, UC Irvine,

Wednesday, November 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Relaxation Enhancement by Fluid Flow and Quantum Dynamics Alexander Kiselev, professor of mathematics, the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Microlensing: Measuring the Galactic Distribution of Planets Andy Gould, professor of mathematical and physical sciences, Ohio State University,

Thursday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria Bonnie Bassler, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University,

Friday, November 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals at Four Loops and Beyond Christoph Sieg, Neils Bohr Institute,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar—cancelled Lauritsen 469
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Firestone 306 Enriched Boundary Elements for Fracture Mechanics and Wave Scattering
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Mesoscopic Cavity QED with a Single Quantum Dot Martin Winger, Institute of Quantum Electronics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ),

Monday, November 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation Claude-André Faucher-Giguere, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Infinite-Randomness Quantum Critical Points Induced by Dissipation Thomas Vojta, associate professor of physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Determining Alphas(mZ): New Precision Results from Jets Iain Stewart, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Minimizing Communication in Linear Algebra

Tuesday, November 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Optimizing the Layout and Error Properties of Quantum Circuits John Kubiatowicz, UC Berkeley,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Globular Clusters in the Outer Galactic Halo Aaron Dotter, research fellow in astrophysics, University of Victoria,

Wednesday, November 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Random Dirac Operators with Time Reversal Symmetry Christian Sadel, visiting assistant professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Measuring the Cosmos Mark Reid, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Spin Liquid with Fermi-surface: Exact Solution of Kitaev-type Model Misha Feigelman, Landau Intitute,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Tapio Schneider: Where the Wind Comes From, on Earth and Other Planets Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmology from Standard Sirens Daniel Holz, Richard Feynman Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Friday, November 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fractional Charge in Time-Inversion Invariant Systems Roman Jackiw, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Firestone 306 Stable Grid Refinement and Singular Source Discretization for Seismic Wave Simulations

Monday, November 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Stellar Halo Ian Roederer, graduate student in astronomy, University of Texas,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 CP Violation for the Heaven and Earth—A KM Saga George W.S. Hou, National Taiwan University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Domain Decomposition Methods for High-Contrast Multiscale Flow Problems
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Tunneling Spectral Dip: A Universal Feature of High TC Superconductors John Zasadzinski, professor of physical sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, November 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Faster Quantum Algorithm for Evaluating Game Trees Ben Reichardt, Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Gas-phase Ion/Ion Reactions: Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer, and Bio-conjugation Scott A. McLuckey, professor of chemistry, Purdue University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium GW Detector Calibration Peter Kalmus, postdoctoral scholar in physics, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Online Algorithms with No Regret Guarantees

Wednesday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Ground States of Supersymmetric Matrix Models Douglas Lundholm, graduate student in mathematics, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Mapping the Milky Way: From SDSS and 2MASS to LSST and Gaia Željko Iveziæ, University of Washington,

Thursday, November 19
8:30 am - 5:15 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Symposium Series Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
8:30 am - 5:15 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Challenging the Paradigm: The Legacy of Galileo
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Metallicities and Abundance Ratios in the Galactic Bulge Based on Microlensed Dwarf Stars Thomas Bensby, European Southern Observatory, Chile,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Topological Insulators : The Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects without Magnetic Field M. Zahid Hasan, professor of physics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Special Symposium: "The Human and Scientific Tale of Galileo" Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Friday, November 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography of Charged Dilaton Black Holes Shamit Kachru, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons Lukas Novotny, professor of optics, biomedical engineering, and physics, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester,

Monday, November 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Multi-wavelength Studies of Galaxy Clusters and Their Use as Cosmological Probes Doron Lemze, Tel Aviv University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Kinetic Approach to the Calculation of Thermal Transport and the Nernst Effect Karen Michaeli, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science ,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Go with the Geometric Flow
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supermodels for early LHC Zoltan Ligeti, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

Tuesday, November 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Dynamically Corrected Gates Kaveh Khodjasteh, Dartmouth College,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213

Wednesday, November 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Scattering for CMV Matrices and the Strong Szego Theorem Alexander Kheifets, associate professor of mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell,

Monday, November 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Geometric Structure of Conservative Complex Fluid Equations
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Topic to be announced. Luis Reyes, research fellow, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, the University of Chicago,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Infrared Spectroscopy of Correlated Electron Matter at the Nanoscale Dimitri N. Basov, professor of physics, UC San Diego,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Antimatter Production, Trapping and Antimatter Plasmas Joel Fajans, professor of physics, UC Berkeley,