Monday, November 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Internal Stellar Kinematics of the Nearby Compact Elliptical M32 Kirsten Howley, UC Santa Cruz,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Special Mathematical Physics Seminar Decimations and Superpositions in Random Matrix Theory Peter Forrester, professor of mathematics and statistics, University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Testing the Star Formation Law in Bulgeless Disk Galaxies Linda Watson, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 The Band Structure, Electron-electron Interaction and Transport in Bilayer Graphene Jun Zhu, professor of physics, the Pennsylvania State University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Automation of the Matrix Element Reweighting Model Pierre Artoisenet, Ohio State University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Rank/Sparsity Minimization and Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection Venkat Chandrasekaran, graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, MIT,

Tuesday, November 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Spin Systemsas Toy Models for Emergent Gravity Fotini Markopoulou, professor of quantum gravity, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Star Formation and Galaxy Assembly at Redshifts 1-5 Bruce Elmegreen, IBM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Why We Still Can't Solve Chemistry through Quantum Mechanics—And Maybe Why We Can Garnet K.-L. Chan, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Cornell University,

Wednesday, November 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Topic to be announced. Luca Ricci, European Southern Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Heavy Vortices and Dark Energy Phil Chang, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,

Thursday, November 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The National Ignition Facility: The Path to Ignition, High Energy Density Science and Inertial Fusion Energy Edward Moses, principal associate director of NIF and Photon Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,

Friday, November 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Wall-crossing of D4-D2-D0 and Flop of the Conifold Takahiro Nishinaka, Osaka University,

Monday, November 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function Brandon Kelly, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Universal Dynamics in Thermally Isolated Systems Anatoli Polkovnikov, assistant professor of condensed matter physics, Boston University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Numerical Methods for Geometric Elliptic Partial Differential Equations Adam Oberman, associate professor of mathematics, Simon Fraser University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Low Scale Flavor Gauge Symmetries Giovanni Villadoro, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Tuesday, November 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum Limits on Estimating a Waveform Carlton Caves, professor of physics, University of New Mexico,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Charged-Particle Astronomy Alexander Kusenko, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Dissipative Solitons: New Nonlinear Waves in Ultrafast Fiber Lasers Frank Wise, professor of applied physics, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Orbital-free Embedding Theory and Its Applications in Numerical Simulations of the Electronic Structure in Condensed Phase Tomasz A. Wesolowski, professor of physical chemistry, University of Geneva,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Adaptive Submodularity: A New Approach to Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization Daniel Golovin, postdoctoral scholar, Center for the Mathematics of Information, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Keely Finkelstein, Texas A&M University, Steve Finkelstein, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Annenberg 105 All Pairs Shortest Path in Quadratic Time with High Probability Benny Sudakov, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Do Massive Stars Explode? Christopher Kochanek, Ohio State University,

Thursday, November 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) High-Contrast Imaging and Atmospheric Modeling of Luminous Planets and Low-Mass Brown Dwarfs Thayne Currie, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Al+ Optical Clocks for Fundamental Physics, Geodesy, and Quantum Metrology Till Rosenband, physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Friday, November 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Monster Orbifold and Group Cohomology Geoffrey Mason, UC Santa Cruz,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Vincent Bouchard, University of Alberta,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Quantized Pumping and Phase Diagram Topology of Interacting Bosons Ehud Altman, senior scientist in condensed matter physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Monday, November 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Simulations of the Magellanic Stream in a First Infall Scenario Gurtina Besla, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Disordered Nonlinear Systems: From Localization to Hyper-transport Yevgeny Krivolapov, Technion Institute of Technology Israel,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Detection and Imaging with Waves in Heterogeneous, Strongly Backscattering Media Liliana Borcea, professor of computational and applied mathematics, Rice University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Energy-Dependent Composition of UHECRs and the Future of Charged Particle Astronomy Antonio Calvez, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Learning from Examples Using Quantum Annealing Hartmut Neven, Google,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Extreme Environments with Adaptive Optics Jessica Lu, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Quantum Imaging of Topological Phases Hari Manoharan, professor of physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Newtonian Noise or How to Get into Serious Trouble (and Out Again) Jan Harms, senior research fellow in physics, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Graphene: Unique Properties and Practical Applications Alexander Balandin, professor of electrical engineering, Nano-Device Laboratory, UC Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design Andreas Krause, assistant professor of computer science, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 ATLAS Heather Gray, graduate student, Columbia University and Caltech,

Wednesday, November 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Topic to be announced. Yong Shi, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, IPAC, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Wheels within Wheels: Hamiltonian Dynamics as a Hierarchy of Action Variables Rory Perkins, graduate student, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Annenberg 105 Position-Based Cryptography: Classical and Quantum Rafail Ostrovsky, professor of computer science and mathematics, Center for Information and Computation Security, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Violent Events in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: From Post-T Tauri Stars to White Dwarfs Ben Zuckerman, professor of astronomy, emeritus, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture The Road Coloring Problem and Symbolic Dynamics Benjamin Weiss, professor of mathematics, emeritus, Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Swaminathan Krishnan: Re-Creating the Great Fort Tejon Earthquake of 1857 Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Bose-Einstein Condensates and Synthetic Gauge Fields Ian Spielman, fellow, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and the University of Maryland,

Friday, November 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exact Results in Black Hole Entropy Counting Joao Gomes, University of Paris,

Saturday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Topic and speaker to be announced.

Monday, November 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium External Occulters for Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets Eric Cady, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Superconductivity in the Repulsive Hubbard Model: An Symptotically Exact Weak Coupling Solution Srinivas Raghu, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, Rice University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Fastest Decay in the Landscape Alex Dahlen, Princeton University,

Tuesday, November 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum Information Processing with Atomic Spin Ensembles Eugene Polzik, professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar—cancelled Annenberg 105 Tonio Buonassissi, professor of mechanical engineering and manufacturing, MIT,

Wednesday, November 24
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Analytic Quasi-Periodic Cocycles with Singularities: Lyapunov Exponent and Spectral Theory for Extended Harper's Model Christoph Marx, UC Irvine,

Monday, November 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Engineering Modular Control Over Signaling and Metabolic Pathways John Dueber, assistant professor of bioengineering, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Topic to be announced. Stephanie Juneau, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Mott Insulators of Ultracold Alkaline Earth Fermions: A New Class of Quantum Magnets Michael A. Hermele, assistant professor of theoretical condensed matter physics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 IceCube Stijn Buitinik, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,

Tuesday, November 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum Money Andrew Lutomirski, graduate student in theoretical physics, MIT,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Michael Brown, Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar—cancelled Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Brooks H. Pate, professor of chemistry, University of Virginia,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Center for the Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games (Part 1) Sachin Adlakha, postdoctoral scholar in computer science, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Coupling Phonons with Photons and Atoms via Cavity Optomechanics Eugene Polzik, professor of physics, Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Matter Axion Detection with Molecular Interferometry Surjeet Rajendram, MIT and the Johns Hopkins University,