Wednesday, May 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium RR Lyrae Variables: Getting Out of the Galaxy Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie,

Thursday, May 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Neutrinos: Masters of Surprise Robert McKeown, Jefferson Lab,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Airships: A New Horizon for Science Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Friday, May 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 CMB from CFT Sandip Trivedi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae Sean Couch, Research Associate, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago,

Monday, May 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL TIME** Annenberg 105 Tracking Multiphase Physics: Geometry, Foams, and Thin Films James Sethian, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 To be announced Zackaria Chacko, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Cooling Through Optimal Control of Quantum Evolution Dr. Armin Rahmani,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium High redshift starburst galaxies revealed by SPT, ALMA, and gravitational lensing Joaquin Vieira, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 7
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum sparse-graph codes for future quantum computers Leonid Pryadko, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Oscillatory modes of quarks in baryons for 3 quark flavors - u, d, s Peter Minkowski, ITEP, Univ of Bern,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Charles Lawrence, NASA JPL,

Wednesday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Supermassive Black Holes in Giant Elliptical Galaxies Chung Pei Ma, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, May 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Macroscopic Quantum Objects Yanbei Chen, Caltech,

Friday, May 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Localization in N=2* and related models Alex Buchel, Perimeter Institute,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age? Pedro Ferreira, Professor, Astrophysics, University of Oxford,

Monday, May 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Hamiltonian Theory of Fractionally Filled Chern Bands Ganpathy Murthy, Professor, University of Kentucky,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Neutrinoless double-beta decay and other searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with the Majorana experiment Reyco Henning, University of North Carolina,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "The Accelerating Universe" Roger Blandford, Physics, Stanford,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Morphological Reduction of Neurons Steven Cox, Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, May 14
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Is there life beyond Quantum Mechanics? Anton Kapustin, Professor, Physics, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Davy Kirkpatrick, IPAC, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planet formation in the Kepler Era Hilke Schlichting, UCLA,

Thursday, May 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar South Mudd 365 The Beginning of Life and the End of Solar Systems Dave Spiegel, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) First Cosmology Results from Planck James J. Bock, Professor of Physics, Caltech / JPL,

Friday, May 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 to be announced Clay Cordova, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Fast evaluation of asymptotic waveforms from gravitational perturbations Scott Field, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland,

Monday, May 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Sniffing out BSM Physics with Standard Model Standard Candles David Curtin, SUNY, Stonybrook,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Effective Field Theories for Topological Insulators via Functional Bosonization Shinsei Ryu, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Time Travel in Experimental Evolution Richard Lenski, Professor of Microbial Ecology, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium 'Illuminating the dark universe with quasar-induced ly-alpha emission' Sebastiano Cantalupo, UCO/Lick Observatory,

Tuesday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum metrology and many-body physics with optical lattice clocks Michael Martin, JILA, University of Colorado,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Multilevel Monte Carlo Method Mike Giles, Professorial Fellow in Mathematical Finance at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 SNO+ Jeff Hartnell, Univ of Sussex,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Elucidating Correlations in Intracellular Dynamics Aaron R. Dinner, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Annika Peter, Prof., UC Irvine/Ohio State University,

Wednesday, May 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium CSI-Los Angeles: The Growth of Distant Galaxies and Reionization Ranga- Ram Chary, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Shu-ou Shan: Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein's Life Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Frustrated Magnets and Quantum Spin Liquids Steven White, UC Irvine,

Friday, May 24
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Towards a holographic formulation of Cosmology Gonzalo Torroba, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Glimpsing the Composition Distribution of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets Leslie Rogers, Hubble Postdoctoral Scholar, Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, May 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Topological Viscosity Response due to Torsion and the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence Taylor Hughes, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champagne,

Tuesday, May 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Center for the Mathmatics of Information and the Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Fourier sparsity, spectral norm, and the Log-rank conjecture Shengyu Zhang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) CANCELLED: Adiabatic and Diabatic Treatments of Vibronic Coupling: The NO3 Molecule as an Example John F. Stanton, George W. Watt Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Risa Wechsler, Stanford University,

Wednesday, May 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gone with the Wind? Galactic winds and star formation quenching Christy Tremonti, Wisconsin,

Thursday, May 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Black Hole Information Paradox, Alive and Kicking Joseph Polchinski, KITP, UCSB,

Friday, May 31
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 to be announced Joseph Polchinski, KITP/UCSB,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Changing Landscape of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Ken Shen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,