Tuesday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) High-dimensional Surprises Near the Glass and the Jamming Transitions Patrick Charbonneau, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Physics and CBB Program , Chemistry and Physics, Duke University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 13 TeV physics perspectives at the LHC Maurizio Pierini, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Fomalhaut b's Eccentric Orbit and Main Belt Structure: Evidence for other Fomalhaut Planets? Prof. Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From building blocks to large galaxies: towards understanding the formation of the Milky Way Anna Frebel, MIT,

Friday, October 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 From dlogs to dilogs Arthur Lipstein, University of Oxford,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Nuclear Processes in Accretion Disks from Compact Object Mergers: an Engine for Electromagnetic Transients Rodrigo Fernandez, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,

Sunday, October 6
7:00 am - 5:00 pm	Retina Symposium - OkularFest 2013 Beckman Auditorium

Monday, October 7
7:50 am - 1:00 pm	The Keck Institute for Space Studies presents a short course on: Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 269 Dimensional reduction of S-Confining Dualities Mario Martone, Cornell,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Tuning the Ground State of Fe Pnictide Superconductors. Ni Ni, Professor, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Illustris Project: Populating the Hubble Sequence in Cosmological Simulations Paul Torrey, (CfA) Harvard,

Tuesday, October 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Simulation of dynamical abelian and no-abelian lattice gauge theories with cold atoms Benni Reznik, Tel-Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium What is the Universe Made of ? Insights from Gravitational Lensing Prof. Tommaso Treu, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs-Motivated Search Strategies for Supersymmetry at CMS Benjamin Hooberman, FNAL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Searching for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays Justin Ellis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

Wednesday, October 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Cold Dark Matter Controversy in Dwarf Galaxies James Bullock, UC Irvine,

Thursday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning Philippe Rigollet, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, October 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography for a small world Vladimir Rosenhaus, UC Berkeley,

Monday, October 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Hidden (Hastatic) Order in URu2Si2 Rebbeca Flint, Professor, Iowa State University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing Ravi Kannan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, India,

Tuesday, October 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Niel Brandt, PSU,

Wednesday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dust-Obscured Activity in High Redshift Galaxies Alexandra Pope, UMass,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Richard S. Ellis - Let There Be Light: Finding the Earliest Galaxies Beckman Auditorium

Friday, October 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BPS, Non-BPS and D-brane anti D-brane effective actions in type II Superstring theory with their corrections to all orders in alpha-prime Ehsan Hatefi, ICTP, Trieste,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Can Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts? Zachariah Etienne, Department of Astronomy, UMD and NASA GSFC,

Monday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Quantitative predictive understanding of bacterial growth physiology Terence Hwa, Professor, Department of Physics and Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Emergent Space-time Supersymmetry in Topological Superconductors Tarun Grover, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Galaxy Zoo, Barred Galaxies and Secula Evolution" Edmund Cheung, USCS,

Tuesday, October 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Piet van der Kruit, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,

Wednesday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials and Interfaces William R. Dichtel, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Planetesimals to Giant Planets: Chemical and Dynamical Probes of Planet Formation Joan Najita, NOAO,

Thursday, October 24
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University,

Friday, October 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory Benjamin Safdi, Princeton University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Vector beta function Yu Nakayama, Caltech & Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Do Galaxy Clusters Boil? Mike McCourt, Graduate Student, Astronomy Department, U.C. Berkeley,

Monday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Ania Jayich, Assistant Professor, UCSB,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Advancements in modeling galaxy mergers: Synthetic observations and a more accurate numerical method Chris Hayward, ITS, Heidelberg,

Tuesday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Chris Hayward, Heidelberger Inst. for Theoretical Studies,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 ENZ and MNZ Phenomena Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, University of Pennslyvania,

Wednesday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical tracers of galaxy assembly Jean Brodie, UCO Lick Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar Annenberg 105 Petri nets, chemistry, and quantum theory John Baez, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Proximity Effect Induced Topological Superconductor and Majorana Modes Jinfeng Jia, Professor, Physics, Shanghai Jia Tong University,