Monday, May 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Large Scale Structure and Extreme Star formation at z>4 Peter Capak, staff scientist, IPAC, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Emulating Quantum Magnetism and t--J Models in Systems of Ultracold Polar Molecules Salvatore Manmana, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 On New Physics Models for the Tevatron Top Forward Backward Asymmetry Kathryn Zurek, Univ of Michigan,

Tuesday, May 3
9:00 am - 10:30 am	Physics and Geometry Seminar Quanitzation of Slodowy Slices and Instanton Counting Alexander Braverman, Brown University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Parallel Repetition of Entangled Games Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies from Elemental Abundance Measurements Evan Kirby, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Moore B270 Materials and Mechanics for Bio-Integrated Electronics John Rogers, professor of material science and engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, May 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Shell Polynomials and Indeterminate Moment Problems Jacob S. Christiansen, research fellow in mathematical sciences, University of Copenhagen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Recent Results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on Hubble Michael Shull, University of Colorado,

Thursday, May 5
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium OGLE-IV - the Fourth Phase of the OGLE Survey Andrzej Udalski, University of Warsaw,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Gravity Mapping and Climate Monitoring: Past and Future Michael M. Watkins, GRACE Project Scientist, JPL,

Friday, May 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Harmony of Superstring Amplitudes: Implications from/to Field Theory Stephan Stieberger, MPI Munich,

Monday, May 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar Keith Spalding 410 Density of the Universe from the 2MASS Clustering Dipole Maciej Bilicki, Copernicus Astronomical Center,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Invariant Manifolds and Dispersive Hamiltonian Evolution Equations Wilhelm Schlag, professor of mathematics, the University of Chicago,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Stochastic Data Reduction, Data-Driven Uncertainty Quantification and Multiscale Modeling of Complex Systems Guang Lin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Physical Predictions and the Quantum Multiverse Yasunori Nomura, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, May 10
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Thermal Stability of Topological Order and Feasibility of Efficient Self-Correcting Quantum Memory Beni Yoshida, UC Berkeley,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium An All-Sky Automated Survey for the Brightest Supernovae Jose Prieto, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Solid State Nano-photonic Quantum Technologies Andrei Faraon, Hewlett Packard Laboratories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Aerosols on the Ancient Earth: Lessons from Saturn's Moon Titan Margaret A. Tolbert, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder and CIRES,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New Ideas in Gravitational-wave Data Analysis Curt Cutler, senior faculty associate in physics, Caltech , and group supervisor in relativistic astrophysics, JPL, Michele Vallisneri, visiting associate in physics, Caltech, and research scientist in astrophysics and space sciences , JPL,

Wednesday, May 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Szego Theorem for Finite and Infinite Gap OPUC Maxim Zinchenko, assistant professor of mathematics, University of Central Florida,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Magnetic Quasiparticle Scattering Mechanism of Spin-resonance Behavior and Its Relationship with Quasiparticle Interference Pattern in High-Tc Superconductors Tanmoy Das, Postdoctoral research associate in theoretical condensed matter physics , Los Alamos National Lab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Collective Origin of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies Lars Hernquist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,

Thursday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Technology and the Scientific Method: Tools and Policies for Addressing the Credibility Crisis in Computational Science Victoria Stodden, assistant professor of statistics, Columbia University,

Friday, May 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 U-duality, Minimal Unitary Representations and AdS/CFT Duality Munat Gunaydin, Pennsylvania State University,

Monday, May 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium On the Role of Neutral Mutations in Adaptation Joshua B. Plotkin, assistant professor of biology, computer and information science, the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Reionization of Intergalactic Helium Steve Furlanetto, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs at the Tevatron Wade Fisher, Michigan State University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Some Simple Models to Study the Stability of Incompressible Fluid Congming Li, professor of applied mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder,

Tuesday, May 17
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Todd Thompson, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Multiscale Simulation for Biomolecular Engineering: Protein Allostery and Deconstruction of Cellulose Microfibril Jhih-Wei Chu, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, May 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Cantor Blowup Rowan Killip, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Adaptive Optics Imaging of Circumstellar Debris Disks Mike Fitzgerald, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Broad 100 Lensfree On-Chip Microscopy and Tomography Toward Telemedicine Applications Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical engineering, California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA,

Thursday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Directional Detection: Searching for the Dark Matter Wind Jocelyn Monroe, assistant professor of physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT,

Friday, May 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Binomial Geometry of SU(5) GUTs in F-theory Mboyo Esole, Harvard University,

Saturday, May 21
9:30 am - 5:30 pm	Southern California Number Theory Day

Monday, May 23
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture South Mudd 365 Climate Physics and Geoengineering Short Course Phil Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Tom Painter, JPL, Graham Feingold, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Alan Robock, Rutgers University, Mike MacCracken, Climate Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planck Early Measurements of the Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies Olivier Dore, research scientist, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Modulated Interface Lithography {MIL}: The Nanoworld Beyond Bénard Instability Sandra M. Troian, professor of applied physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production Dante Amidei, University of Michigan,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 On Growth and Form: Mathematics, Mechanics and Morphogenesis L. Mahadevan, professor of applied mathematics and professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University,

Tuesday, May 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 What Can We Learn from Quantum Entanglement Spectra? Daniel Arovas, UC San Diego,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Tracing the Star Formation-Density Relation to z~2 Ryan Quadri, Carnegie Observatories,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Laser Induced Molecular Imaging Paul Corkum, director, NRC Laboratory for Attosecond Science, Steacie Institute of Molecular Science, National Research Council of Canada,

Wednesday, May 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Cantor Polynomials and Their Brothers Barry Simon, IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Electromagnetic Transients from Coalescing Compact Binaries (& Other Exotica) Brian Metzger, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Anthony C. Readhead: Probing the Very Early Universe With the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference—cancelled East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)

Friday, May 27
11:00 am - Saturday 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Andrew Neitzke, the University of Texas,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Energy Dissipation and Conversion in Nanoscale Devices Eric Pop, professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Tuesday, May 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Topic to be announced. Shangyu Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Adaptive Optics Imaging of Circumstellar Debris Michael Fitzgerald, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in Advanced Gravitational-wave Detectors Haixing Miao, postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,