Monday, April 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Jet Charge and Track-Based Observables for the LHC Wouter Waalewijn, UC San Diego,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Interstellar Medium of Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization Joseph Munoz, UCLA,

Wednesday, April 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium How the Milky Way Built its Disk Hans-Walter Rix, MPIA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium New Dimenstions for Stellar Spectroscopy: Reconstructing Chemo-Dynamical Evolution of the Galaxy with Late-Type Stars Dr. Maria Bergemann, MPA,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	John Preskill: Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe Harvey Newman, Caltech,

Friday, April 5
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Near-Field Cosmology: Big Science From Small Galaxies Mike Boylan-Kolchin, Center for Galaxy Evolution Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Monday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Latest Higgs results from ATLAS: the beginning of a long road Rustem Ospanov, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Atomically Thin Photodetectors: The Ideal Semi-Metal vs. The Insurmountable Insulator Nathaniel Gabor, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) Project David Kipping, CfA,

Tuesday, April 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Sequential decoding of general quantum communication channels Mark Wilde, Louisiana State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Rick Williams, Carnegie Observatories,

Wednesday, April 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Redshift Space Distortions of the Galaxy Distribution Alex Szalay, John Hopkins University,

Thursday, April 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now John Clarke, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, April 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Black hole scattering from monodromy Alejandra Castro, Harvard University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Uncovering Properties of Cosmic Dark Matter through Indirect Detection Sheldon Campbell, Postdoctoral Fellow, CCAPP (Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics), Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Quadrature by Expansion: A New Method for the Evaluation of Layer Potentials Leslie Greengard, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,

Monday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Prospects and Challenges of Neutral Atom Quantum Simulation David Weld, Assistant Professor, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Evidence for and Obstructions to Partially Massless Gravity Kurt Hinterbichler, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Explaining a cell's evolutionary trade-offs in terms of proteome physical chemistry Ken Dill, Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium What have galaxies done with their metals? Molly Peebles, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium What have galaxies done with their metals? Molly Peebles , UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Development and Applications of Numerical Solvers for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations on Octree Adaptive Grids Frederic Gibou, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, April 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Equilibrium value method for optimization problems and its applications in quantum computation Xiaodi Wu, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Connie Rockosi, UC Santa Cruz, UCO/Lick Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Hybrid Systems in Interaction with Radiation: New Avenues to Study Reactive Transients in Chemistry and to Design Novel Functional Materials Bernd Abel, Professor, Chemistry Department, Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM), Leipzig, Germany, and Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University Leipzig, Germany,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Stephen Hawking Public Lecture Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, April 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions Armin Rest, STScI,

Thursday, April 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) New Observations about Quantum Field Theory Zohar Komargodski, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,

Friday, April 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 to be announced Sung-Sik Lee, McMaster University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 to be announced Zohar Komargodski, Weizmann Institute,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar East Bridge 114 Non-Thermal Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Magnetized Astrophysical Flows Lorenzo Sironi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,

Monday, April 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Mu2e Experiment Bertrand Echenard, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium (Tentative Title) Cosmological Results from Planck Graca Rocha, JPL/Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Spectral Element Methods in Motion David Kopriva, Professor, Department of Mathematics, The Florida State University,

Tuesday, April 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Continuous-variable quantum cryptography: Current status and future directions Christian Weedbrook, University of Toronto,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exotic Excitonics: From Organic Crystals to Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides David Reichman, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Completing the Inventory of the Outer Solar System Dr. Scott Sheppard, DTM,

Wednesday, April 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Murchison Widefield Array: the low frequency Precursor for the Square Kilometre Array Steven Tingay, Curtin Institute, Western Australia ,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	John P. Grotzinger: Mars Science Laboratory: The Search for Habitable Environments Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Unveiling the High Energy X-ray Sky with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Fiona Harrison, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Caltech,

Friday, April 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 to be announced John McGreevy, UC San Diego,

Monday, April 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Thinking Fast, Building Big: Opportunities for Neutrino Physics Using Fast Timing and Large Area Photodetectors Matthew Wetstein, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Spin-Orbit Tuned Ground States in Single-Crystal Iridates Gang Cao, Professor, University of Kentucky,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	**CANCELED** Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105

Tuesday, April 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Building one-time memories from isolated qubits Yi-Kai Liu, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Structure and Mechanics of Silk and Silk-inspired Materials Markus J. Buehler, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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,

Monday, June 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Status of LBNE Maury Goodman, ANL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium The Origin of Negative Overcharge in RNA Viruses Zhen-gang Wang, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Division of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Sriram Shastry, Professor, UC Santa Cruz,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium 'Probing the jet-launching mechanism of supermassive black holes with radio surveys' Sjoert van Velzen, Radboud University Nijmegen,

Tuesday, June 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Sparse Recovery Over Continuous Dictionaries: The Fourier Case Dr. Gonggou Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Micropropulsion Applications from Gravity-Wave Telescopes to Exoplanet Observatories and Cube-Sats John Ziemer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Getting WIRED About Dust and Substellar Objects Orbiting White Dwarfs Dr. John H. Debes, STScI,

Wednesday, June 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "First Results of the BeSSeL Survey" Mark Reid, Harvard,

Friday, June 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 to be announced Hong Liu, MIT,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Dark matter halo substructure and its role in gamma-ray dark matter searches Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde, Postdoc, KIPAC/SLAC, Stanford University,

Monday, June 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Statistical Topological Insulators Dr. Anton Akhmerov, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dark Photon: Stellar Constraints and Direct Detection Haipeng An, Perimeter Institute,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Turbulence and Cosmic-Rays in Galaxy Clusters" Peng Oh, UCSB,

Tuesday, June 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Evolution of Galaxy Sizes Dr. Bianca Poggianti, INAF,