Tuesday, May 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Detection Confidence in Searches for Gravitational-Wave Transients Erik Katsavounidis, associate professor of physics, MIT,

Wednesday, May 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Operator Mobius Transformations of CMV Matrices and Orthogonal Rational Functions Luis Velazquez, professor of applied mathematics, University of Zaragoza, Spain,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Metallicity and Star-Formation History of Galaxies Lisa Kewley, research fellow, Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii,
5:45 pm - 8:00 pm	2008 Mathematics Department Awards Banquet Athenaeum

Thursday, May 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Technology of Submillimeter Astronomy Jonas Zmuidzinas, professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, May 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar—cancelled Lauritsen 469 Anindya Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow in particle, subatomic, and string theory, University of British Columbia,