Monday, May 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Pentaquarks and Other Results from the STAR Experiment Sevil Salur, postdoctoral researcher in physics, Yale University,

Tuesday, May 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices and Superlattices Mason Porter, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture Weighted Orbital Integrals and the Langland Program James Arthur, professor of mathematics, University of Toronto,

Wednesday, May 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Grand Ensembles of Operators and Randelette Expansions in Spectral Theory Victor Chulaevsky, department of mathematics, Université de Reims, France,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Hitting the Millisecond Pulsar Jackpot with the GBT Scott Ransom, assistant astronomer, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Preston McAfee: Why Are Prices So Bizarre? Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) How to Represent Movie Stars in the Human Brain Christof Koch, Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, and professor of computation and neural systems, Caltech,

Friday, May 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Zhiqin Lu, associate professor of differential geometry, UC Irvine,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Control and Communication: An Overview
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Electric Dipole Moments in Storage Ring: The Next Generation of Hadronic EDM Experiments Dr. Yannis Semertzidis, physics department, Brookhaven National Laboratory,

Monday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Results from Babar and on Cosmological Parameters from Weak Gravitational Lensing Justin Albert, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Numerical Scaling Analysis of the Small-Scale Structure in Turbulence

Tuesday, May 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Gravity from Quantum Computation: Observational Consequences Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering, MIT,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Effects of Feedback and Environment on the Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies Yeshe Fenner, postdoctoral fellow, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Uncovering Design Rules for Light-Driven Molecular Devices from First Principles Dynamics Todd J. Martinez, professor of chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, May 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Optimal Sobolev Regularity of a Class of Fourier Integral Malabika Pramanik, senior research fellow in mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, May 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Back-Action in Mesoscopic Physics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Aashish Clerk, assistant professor of physics, McGill University,

Friday, May 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Phase Transitions in Topological String Theory Marcos Marino, department of theoretical physics, CERN,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Topic to be announced. Nigel R. Cooper, department of physics, University of Cambridge,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Control and Communication: Noiseless Quantized Feedback on Linear Systems

Monday, May 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Transient Differentiation at the Single-Cell Level Michael Elowitz, assistant professor of biology and applied physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Neutrino Signatures of Supernova Turbulence Alexander Friedland, staff scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Tuesday, May 16
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Raul Jimenez, professor of physics and astronomy, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Discovery Potential of the Higgs Boson at CMS in Four Lepton Final State David Futyan, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Far-from-Equilibrium Assembly of Soft Materials David R. Reichman, professor of chemistry, Columbia University,

Wednesday, May 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Some Mathematical Issues behind Quasi-Static Evolution in Brittle Fracture Christopher Larsen, associate professor of mathematical sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Mid-IR Spectroscopy of Infrared Luminous Galaxies at z~2 Lin Yan, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Paul Patterson: Can One Make a Mouse Model of Mental Illness, and Why Try? Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Physics with the LHC Harvey Newman, professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, May 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic Renormalization of Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes Donald Marolf, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar ~ RESCHEDULED Moore 239 Multivariate Interpolation Decoding beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Film Screening: Journey to Palomar Ramo Auditorium

Monday, May 22
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Asymptotic Analysis of Strongly Nonlinear Langmuir Circulation and Rayleigh-Benard Convection
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A High-Resolution Search for Dark Matter Leanne Duffy, graduate research assistant, department of physics, University of Florida,

Tuesday, May 23
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Reversible Universal Quantum Computation within Translation Invariant Systems Karl Vollbrecht, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 MUON Colliders Amit Klier, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC Riverside,

Wednesday, May 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies Evan Skillman, professor of astronomy, University of Minnesota,

Thursday, May 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Computers—Dream and Realization Rainer Blatt, director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences,

Friday, May 26
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Multivariate Interpolation Decoding beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library From HiRes to TA: The Cosmic Ray Frontier in Utah Kai Martens, assistant professor of physics, University of Utah,

Tuesday, May 30
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELLED Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium CANCELLED Tim Heckman, professor of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Towards Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory for Near-Field Electron Dynamics Roi Baer, associate professor, Institute of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Wednesday, May 31
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Generalized Characters of the Symmetric Group Evgeny Strahov, Taussky-Todd Instructor of Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Cosmic Evolution of Spheroids: Stellar Populations, Dark Matter Halos, and Supermassive Black Holes Tommaso Treu, assistant proferssor of physics, UCSB,