Friday, January 4
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Topic to be Announced Richard O'Shaughnessy, Research Associate, Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee,

Monday, January 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 From yeV to TeV: Search for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment at the FRM-II Reactor Doug Beck, University of Illinois,

Tuesday, January 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Partial-indistinguishability obfuscation using braids Stephen Jordan, NIST,

Wednesday, January 9
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Harvey B. Newman: Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Promise of Urban Science Steven E. Koonin, Director, NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), NYU,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Science and the New Space Race: Opportunities and Obstacles Beckman Auditorium

Friday, January 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BPS spectrum, wall crossing and quantum dilogarithm identity Dan Xie, Institute for Advanced Study,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Sodium Absorption as a Tracer of Dust Extinction, and much more, using SDSS Dovi Poznanski, Tel Aviv University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Tidal disruption by spinning supermassive black holes Mike Kesden, Postdoc, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University,

Monday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium SLoWPoKES: A Cool Stars Resource for Constraining Binary Formation Theory and Testing Fundamental Properties Saurav Dhital, Boston University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA David Weinberg, Prof., Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Molecular design - from proteins to networks, coupling computation and experiment Tanja Kortemme, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Partially Interacting Dark Matter Lisa Randall, Harvard University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 The Triangulation Problem from Computer Vision Rekha Thomas, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington,

Tuesday, January 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 RASICAM: The Radiometric All-Sky Infrared CAMera at Cerro Tololo, Chile Peter Lewis, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Joint Chemical Physics / Biochemistry Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "Computationally Driven Drug Discovery: Theory and Practice" Richard A. Friesner, Professor of Chemistry, Co-Founder Schrödinger LLC, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Julie McEnery, GSFC/Maryland,

Thursday, January 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University,

Friday, January 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exploring curved Superspace Guido Festuccia, Institute for Advanced Study,

Tuesday, January 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Supermassive pairs hiding in the cosmos Sarah Burke-Spolaor, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 More than LESS: First results from the ALMA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South Alexander Karim, Durham University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Dark Matter Detected in the Galactic Center? Prof. Kevork Abazajian, UC Irvine,

Wednesday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Are planetary systems flat? Scott Tremaine, IAS Princeton,

Thursday, January 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Do bacteria play tit-for-tat? Dynamics of a public good in bacterial micro-colony. David Bensimon, ENS, Paris,

Friday, January 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter Shamik Banerjee, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Strong-Field Gravitational Wave Tests of General Relativity Nicolas Yunes, Assistant Professor, Physics, Montana State University,

Monday, January 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Taking a picture of transcriptional activity along a single chromosome Arjun Raj, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Project X Robert Tschirhart, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Constraining the Supermassive Black Hole Population with Gravitational Waves and Pulsar Timing Arrays Ryan Shannon, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Quantifying uncertainty and improving statistical predictions for partially observed turbulent dynamical systems Michal Branicki, Research Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

Tuesday, January 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum computational matter Stephen Bartlett, University of Sydney,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Recent Advances in Density Functional Theory Adam Wasserman, Assistant Professor, Physical/Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University,

Wednesday, January 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Quantifying High-Redshift Star Formation with Gamma-Ray Bursts - Promises and Perils Dan Perley, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Tracy K. Dennison: For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past Beckman Auditorium
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Earnest C. Watson Lecture Beckman Auditorium For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past Tracy K. Dennison, Professor of Social Science History, Caltech,

Thursday, January 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Exploring the Collision of two Black Holes Mark A. Scheel, Caltech,