Monday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic Probabilities in Eternal Inflation and the String Landscape Raphael Bousso, associate professor of physics, UC Berkeley,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Long Memory Mori Zwanzig Models for the Euler Equations

Tuesday, October 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Discreteness and the Origin of Probability in Quantum Mechanics Stephen Hsu, associate professor of physics, University of Oregon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Robust Bayesian Detection of Unmodeled Bursts of Gravitational Waves Antony Searle, postdoctoral fellow in physics, Australian National University, Canberra,

Wednesday, October 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Symplectic Forms and Symplectic Flows on Orthogonal Polynomials Barry Simon, International Business Machines Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Manipulating Light in Arrays of Nanoscale Holes and Pyramids Teri W. Odom, assistant professor of chemistry, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) What Is Getting In and/or Out of Nearby Disk Galaxies? Daniel Wang, associate professor of astronomy, University of Massachusetts Amherst,

Thursday, October 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming Brad Marston, professor of physics, Brown University,

Friday, October 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Open Strings and Particle Physics Herman Verlinde, professor of physics, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Physics Potential of a Very Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment Using a Wide-Band Beam Dr. Mark Dierckxsens, Brookhaven National Laboratory,

Monday, October 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recent Results from the BaBar Experiment Chih-hsiang Cheng, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Transition from Quasi-Equilibrium to Non-Equilibrium Double Layer and Onset of Electroconvective Instability

Wednesday, October 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar "Entropy of Orthogonal Polynomials: Some Results, Some Open Problems" Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, department of mathematics, Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Results from the Stardust Mission Donald Brownlee, professor of astronomy, University of Washington,
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	National Coming-Out Week Keynote Event Avery Library Marriage Discrimination and Moral Values: Seeking Equality for Same-Sex Couples in the Courts, Politics, and Beyond

Thursday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Electric-Magnetic Duality in Gauge Theory: Overview and Recent Developments Anton Kapustin, associate professor of theoretical physics, Caltech,

Friday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Parity-Violating Electron Scattering and Strangeness in the Nucleon: Results from HAPPEX-II Lisa Kaufman, department of physics, University of Massachusetts,

Monday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Massive Jets in Effective Field Theory Sonny Mantry, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Discrete Network Approximation for Highly Packed Particle-Filled Composites

Tuesday, October 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Optimal Quantum Measurements Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Clumpy Disk Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field Bruce Elmegreen, research scientist, IBM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Ultracompact Binaries: Orbital Periods Shorter than This Talk Lars Bildsten, permanent member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, October 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Strong Szegö Theorem for Jacobi Matrices Eric Ryckman, graduate student in mathematics, UCLA,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Opening Mirror Symmetry on the Quintic Johannes Walcher, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Selfconsistent Lensing and Stellar Dynamics: Probing Galaxies to z=1 Leon Koopmans, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, the Netherlands,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Natural Disasters-What We Know vs. What We Do: Kerry Sieh Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 19
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen Library The Quest for the Ultimate Structure of Matter and the Universe: Particle Physics in China Yifang Wang, professor, Institute of High Energy Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Stem Cells, a Primer David Baltimore, president emeritus, Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, Caltech,

Friday, October 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Type-II Actions from an 11-Dimensional Chern-Simons Theory Dmitry Belov, research associate, theoretical physics group, Imperial College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library SO(10) GUT Model, Theta13, and Leptogenesis Yingchuan Li, department of physics, University of Maryland,

Monday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Some Challenges for Universities in a Century of Science Bruce Alberts, professor of biochemistry, UC San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Neutrino Anarchy from Quiver Gauge Theories Tomer Volansky, department of particle physics, Weizmann Institute,

Tuesday, October 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale Paul Goldbart, professor of physics, University of Illinois,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Standard Sirens and Cosmology Daniel Holz, department of theoretical astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Double Chooz and Theta_13 Steven Dazeley, research scientist, physics department, LLNL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Low-Energy Electron Induced Damage of Hydrated DNA: The Role of Negative Ion Resonances and Diffraction Thomas M. Orlando, professor and chair, school of chemistry and biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, October 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar First and Second Kind Paraorthogonal Polynomials and Their Zeros Wanwah (Lilian) Wong, graduate student in mathematics, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Turbulence and Dead Zones in Protostellar Disks Neal Turner, research scientist, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Imaging Compact Supermassive Binary Black Holes with the Very Long Baseline Array Greg Taylor, associate professor, physics and astronomy department, University of New Mexico,

Thursday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Large Hadron Collider: More Symmetries or More Universes? Lawrence J. Hall, professor of physics, UC Berkeley,

Friday, October 27
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Advances in Metric Embedding Theory
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Topic to be announced. Andreas Piepke, associate professor, department of physics and astronomy, University of Alabama, and visiting physicist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Monday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Inclusive Path to Vub Bjorn Lange, senior postdoctoral associate in nuclear science, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Computing Shadow Boundary and Optimizing Visibility

Tuesday, October 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum vs. Classical One-Way Communication Complexity Iordanis Kerenidis, researcher, CNRS-University of Paris,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium An Image Motion Compensation System for the MODS Spectrograph Jennifer Marshall, Carnegie Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope: Development Status and Science Objectives Peter F. Michelson, professor of physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Status of LIGO's Fifth Science Run Shourov Chatterji, postdoctoral scholar, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electronic Structure Methods for Strong Correlations: How Diradicaloid Can a Stable Singlet Diradical Be? Martin P. Head-Gordon, professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,