Tuesday, January 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Topological Order from Quantum Loops and Nets Paul Fendley, professor of physics, University of Virginia,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics (Session I) Integrable Systems: A Modern View

Wednesday, January 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Some Recent Convergence Results on Non-Conventional Ergodic Averages Tim Austin, graduate student in mathematics, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics (Session II) Integrable Systems: A Modern View Percy Deift, professor of mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

Thursday, January 7
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 bioengineering, Caltech,

Friday, January 8
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals Mason A. Porter, University Lecturer, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Oxford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime: Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons Christopher O'Shaughnessy, graduate research assistant in physics, North Carolina State University,

Monday, January 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 String Theory, Dark Matter, Cosmological History, and LHC Gordon Kane, professor of physics, University of Michigan,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED David I. Schuster, postdoctoral associate in applied physics, Yale University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 g-2 Lee Roberts, Boston University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics (Session III) Integrable Systems: A Modern View

Tuesday, January 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Research, Developments, and Plans for Advanced Virgo Raffaele Flaminio, European Gravitational Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Coupled Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions and Biological Energy Transduction Alexei Stuchebrukhov, professor of chemistry, UC Davis,

Wednesday, January 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Disordered-Polymer Depinning Transitions: An Overview Kenneth S. Alexander, professor of mathematics, USC,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Harvey Newman: Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The High Energy Frontier of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory Paul Sommers, professor of physics, Penn State University,

Friday, January 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 On Confinement Index Yutaka Ookouchi, Perimeter Institute,
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic Superconductivity in M-Theory Jerome Gauntlett, Imperial College,

Monday, January 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Suprime Survey: A Large Shear-selected Sample of Galaxy Clusters at z = 0.1-0.8 James Taylor, University of Waterloo,

Tuesday, January 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Interfacial Structure and Dynamics: Fundamental Insights for Interfacial Charge Transfer Oliver L.A. Monti, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Arizona,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Luminosity and Dust Distributions of High-Redshift Galaxies and Their Implications for the Cosmic Star Formation History Naveen Reddy, National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Universal Compression, Denoising, and Prediction

Wednesday, January 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Gaussian Free Field in an Interlacing Particle System With Two Different Jump Rates Maurice Duits, Olga Taussky - John Todd Instructor in Mathematics , Caltech,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Toward Molecular Switches at Interfaces via Direct-Write Click Chemistry Walter Paxton, postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Eta Carinae and Pre-Supernova Temper Tantrums of Massive Stars Nathan Smith, postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, January 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy, Harvard University,

Friday, January 22
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Proposals for the Detection and Production of Majorana Particles Patrick Lee, professor of physics, MIT,

Monday, January 25
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Lords of the Ring: Mechanism of the Dynein and Spastin AAA ATPases Ron Vale, professor of cellular and molecular biology, UC San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Observation of Half-Fluid States in Mesoscopic Sr2RuO4 Rings Raffi Budakian, professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Impact of Gas Accretion on the Scaling Relations Nicolas Bouche, postdoctoral felllow, UC Santa Barbara,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Functions from Non-uniform Fourier Data
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Facilities for Accelerator Science and Experimental Test Beams at SLAC Mark Hogan, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Probing and Controlling the Nuclear Spin Bath of Electron Spin Qubits Hendrik Bluhm, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Harvard University,

Tuesday, January 26
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Cosmic Galois Groups Ozgur Ceyhan, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Stochastic Methods for Bose Gas Dynamics Crispin Gardiner, professor of physics, University of Otago,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Constraining the Formation and Growth of Massive Black Holes Marta Volonteri, assistant professor of astronomy, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Single Photon Detectors—from A to B (from Astronomy to Biology, and Beyond) Daniel Prober, professor of applied physics and physics, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Universal Compression, Denoising and Prediction

Wednesday, January 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Reflection Positivity and the Sharp Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev Inequality Rupert L. Frank, instructor in mathematics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Status of Kepler Mission and Early Discoveries Natalie Batalha, professor of physics and astronomy, San Jose State University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Jacqueline Barton: DNA-Mediated Signaling Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Remarkable Power of General Relativity Gary Horowitz, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, January 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Yasunori Nomura, associate professor of physics, UC Berkeley,