Monday, January 3
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Cloaking via Change of Variables for the Helmholtz Equation Hoai-Minh Nguyen, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

Tuesday, January 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Emergent spacetime and quantum entanglement Mark Van Raamsdonk, associate professor of physics and astronomy, University of British Columbia,

Thursday, January 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Force of the Dark Side Neal Weiner, associate professor of physics, New York University,

Friday, January 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Petr Horava, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture Winnett Lounge 2011 Student-Led Mini-Program Informational Meeting Tom Prince, director, Keck Institute for Space Studies,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Thermodynamic Studies of Nematic Phase Formation Near a Quantum Critical Point in Sr3Ru2O7 Andy Mackenzie, professor of condensed matter physics and director of pesearch, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland,

Monday, January 10
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent anti-nus from MiniBooNE Chris Polly, Fermilab,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Acoustic, Electromagnetic and Quantum Cloaking Gunther Uhlmann, professor of mathematics, University of Washington,

Tuesday, January 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Metric Structures on Datasets: Stability and Classification of Algorithms Facundo Memoli, postdoctoral fellow computational topology, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 12
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 The Certified Reduced Basis Method for High-Fidelity Simulation in Many Query and Real-Time Applications David Knezevic, postdoctoral associate in mechanical engineering, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Non-Intersecting Paths with a Staircase Initial Condition Maurice Duits, Olga Taussky - John Todd Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Wide Field Radio Transient Surveys Geoffrey Bower, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, January 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Mottness and Holography: Strange Metal from UV-IR Mixing Philip W. Phillips, professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Friday, January 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Discrete R Symmetries and Low Energy Supersymmetry Michael Dine, UC Santa Cruz,

Tuesday, January 18
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Probing Majorana Edge States With a Flux Qubit Chang-Yu Hou, Leiden University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Conformational Flexibility Leading to Activation of G-Protein Coupled Receptors: Its Relevance to Drug Design for Pancreatic Cancer Nagarajan Vaidehi, professor of immunology, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Search for New GeV-scale Forces Rouven Essig, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Wednesday, January 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Asymptotic for the Quantum Euler Top Alain Bourget, assistant professor of mathematics, Cal State Fullerton,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The ESA Herschel Space Observatory—Status and Highlights Goran Pilbratt, Herschel Project Scientist, ESA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution Meg Urry, Yale University,

Thursday, January 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines Nergis Mavalvala, professor of physics, MIT,

Friday, January 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Counterterms in N=8 Supergravity Michael Kiermaier, Princeton University,

Monday, January 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Millimeter Study of Quasar-Host Galaxy Evolution at z~6 Ran Wang,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Proposed experiments to probe the neutral edge modes and quantum statistics in topological superconductors Eytan Grosfeld, postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter theory , University of Illinois,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Searches for New Sources of CP Violation with DZero Detector Guennadi Borissov, Lancaster University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Sparsity, Convexity and L1 Minimization in Blind Source Separation Jack Xin, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,

Tuesday, January 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) UV-to-FIR Analysis of IRAC Sources in the Extended Groth Strip Guillermo Barro Calvo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Anyons, twists and topological codes Hector Bombin, postdoctoral researcher, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Semiconductor Nanocrystal Optoelectronics for Energy Efficiency Hilmi Volkan Demir, professor of nanotechnology, Bilkent University / NTU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "Molecules Under Tension: Theory of Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy" Gerhard Hummer, senior investigator and chief, Theoretical Biophysics Section, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,

Wednesday, January 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Properties of the Weakly Coupled Fibonacci Hamiltonian Anton Gorodetski, assistant professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization: Galaxy Buildup in the First Gyr Garth Illingworth, UC Santa Cruz,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Charles R. Plott: The Design of Information Aggregation Mechanisms: Collecting and Using the Wisdom of Crowds Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Imaging the Surfaces of Stars John D. Monnier, associate professor of astronomy, University of Michigan,

Friday, January 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Tinkertoys for Gaiotto Duality Jacques Distler, University of Texas,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Free Energy and Dissipation Out of Equilibrium David Sivak, postdoctoral fellow in physics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

Monday, January 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Prevalence and Properties of Outflowing Winds at z = 1 Katherine Kornei, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Linear and Piecewise Linear Data Analysis Arthur Szlam, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,