Monday, February 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Effect of Dust-gas Energetics on the Star Formation Process Andrea Urban, JPL,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar—cancelled Downs 107 Leon Balents, professor of physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Multiresolution Particle Methods for Flow Simulations
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Secluded Dark Matter and Dark Forces Maxim Pospelov, University of Victoria,

Tuesday, February 2
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Molecular Gymnastics: The Dynamic Binding Orientations of HIV Reverse Transcriptase Elio Abbondanzieri, postdoctoral fellow in chemistry, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Optical Nano-Rectennas: A New Approach for Optical Energy Harvesting, Imaging and Detection Jacob Scheuer, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University,

Wednesday, February 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Square-Summable Variations and Absolutely Continuous Spectrum Yoram Last, professor of mathematics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Illuminating Deaths of Massive Stars Robert Quimby, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,

Thursday, February 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Road to Zeptobarn Dark Matter and Beyond Sunil Golwala, assistant professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, February 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Charged Black Branes: Stable or Unstable? Silviu Pufu, Princeton University,

Monday, February 8
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Biology without Bias: New Tools for Probing Biological Systems Jonathan Weissman, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, UC San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Topic to be announced. Roderik Overzier, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Results from the Final Runs of the CDMS-II Experiment David Moore, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Topic to be announced.
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Disorder and Field Driven Superconductor Insulator Transition Nandini Trivedi, professor of physics, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, February 9
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Generating Branes and Hochschild Homology Mohammed Abouzaid, research fellow, Clay Mathematics institute, and postdoctoral fellow, MIT,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 QIP = PSPACE Sarvagya Upadhyay, University of Waterloo,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Formation and Gaseous Evolution of Massive Galaxies Back to <1 Billion Years after the Big Bang Dominik Riechers, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture Symplectic Rigidity and Quantum-Classical Correspondence Leonid Polterovich, professor of mathematics, Tel Aviv University, University of Chicago, MSRI,

Wednesday, February 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Protein Moduli Space Robert Penner, professor of mathematics, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exoplanetary Atmospheres Kristen Menou, assistant professor of astronomy, Columbia University,

Thursday, February 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Measuring a Black Hole Event Horizon: Very Long Baseline Interferometry of the Galactic Center Sheperd Doeleman, Haystack Observatory, MIT,

Monday, February 15
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	28th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	28th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 16
9:00 am - 5:15 pm	28th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:15 pm	28th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Tales from Tails—Science Enabled by Large Scale Stellar Surveys Kathryn Johnston, associate professor of astronomy, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Flight of the Fruit Fly: Life at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers Itai Cohen, professor of physics, Cornell University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) An Inverse Problem Arising in Photolithography

Wednesday, February 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium: 12th Annual Greenstein Lecturer Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Hubble Servicing Mission 4 (12th Annual Greenstein Lecturer) John Grunsfeld, Space Telescope Science Institute,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Ares Rosakis: Intersonic Earthquakes: What Laboratory Earthquakes Teach us About Real Ones Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Are We Descended From Heavy Neutrinos? Boris Kayser, Theoretical Physics Particle Physics Division, Fermilab,

Friday, February 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Thomas Faulkner, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Stretched or Sealed? The Fate of Extra Dimensions I-Sheng Yang, Columbia University,

Monday, February 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Recent Results from The South Pole Telescope Joaquin Vieira, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Spins on Simple Metals: Noise in SQUIDs and Spin Glasses Clare Yu, professor of condensed matter physics, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Optimal Recovery in High-Dimensions: A Unified Analysis of Regularized Estimators
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Observable Effects of Anisotropic Bubble Nucleation Michael Salem, postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University,

Tuesday, February 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Optimal Parametrizations of Adiabatic Paths Joseph Avron, department of physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Complex History of Massive Galaxies Pieter van Dokkum, professor of astronomy and physics, Yale University,

Wednesday, February 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Baron von Munchhausen and the Cat: Swimming in Empty Curved Space Yosi Avron, professor of physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter, and the Threshold of Galaxy Formation James Bullock, associate professor of theoretical physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,

Thursday, February 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) LIGO Mirrors as Quantum Objects Yanbei Chen, assistant professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, February 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 M5-branes, 4d Gauge Theory and 2d CFT Yuji Tachikawa, Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Spin-Orbit Effects in the Mott Regime Leon Balents, professor, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,