Wednesday, November 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Multi-Hamiltonian Structures for the Toda Lattice and the Ablowitz-Ladik System Irina Nenciu, Courant Instructor of Mathematics, Courant Institute,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the Taurus and Upper Scorpius Associations Catherine Slesnick, graduate student in astronomy, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supersymmetric Renormalization Prescription and Finitness in N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory Laurent Baulieu, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Inner Workings of Early-Type Galaxies: Cores, Nuclei, and Supermassive Black Holes Laura Ferrarese, senior research officer, NRC/HIA,

Thursday, November 2
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "If There Is Magic on the Planet, It Is Contained in Water"*: A New View on the Balance of Forces Controlling Micellar Morphologies of Ionic Surfactants (*Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey, 1957) Professor Laurence S. Romsted, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Circuit QED: Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing on a Superconducting Chip Rob Schoelkopf, professor of applied physics and physics, Yale University,

Friday, November 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Kristian Kennaway, postdoctoral fellow in physics, University of Toronto,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Magnetically Induced Electronic States in Two-Dimensional Superconductors Jongsoo Yoon, assistant professor of physics, University of Virginia,
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. Joe Carlson, theoretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Monday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Landscape Predictions for the Higgs Boson and Top Quark Masses Taizan Watari, postdoctoral fellow in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Anderson Localization, Non-Linearity, and Stable Genetic Diversity
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm	The Spitzer Science Center Presents "The Art of Astronomy" Off Campus

Tuesday, November 7
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Control of Coupled Spins in a Mesoscopic Environment Jake Taylor, research fellow in physics, MIT,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Stellar Mass Density of the Universe at z~6 Haojing Yan, physical scientist associate, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Do We Have a Theory for Reactions at Metal Interfaces? The Unsolved Problem of Electronic Non-Adiabaticity Alec M. Wodtke, professor of chemistry, UC Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, November 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Highly Nonlinear Phononic Crystals Chiara Daraio, assistant professor of aeronautics and applied physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Trouble in Paradise? The Tale of Solar Abundances Sarbani Basu, pfrofessor of astronomy and DGS, Yale University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	The Amazing World of Bubbles: Chris Brennen Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-Like Forces at Sub-mm Distance Aaron Kapitulnik, professor of physics and applied physics, Stanford University,

Friday, November 10
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Joerg Teschner, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Search for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in Sr2RuO4 and Other Novel Superconductors Aharon Kapitulnik, professor of physics and applied physics, Stanford University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Frederik Denef, associate professor, department of physics and astronomy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Statistical Learning: Kernels, Convexity, and Generalization
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library "Searching for Supersymmetry in Low-Energy Experiments" Carlos Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago,

Monday, November 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Top Flavor Violation: From the B Factories to the LHC Michele Papucci, postdoc in particle physics, UC Berkeley,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Optical Tomography

Tuesday, November 14
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 What's Entanglement Good For? Steve Flammia, research assistant, University of New Mexico,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Connecting Galaxy Evolution, Star Formation and the X-ray Background David Ballantyne, department of physics, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Top Quark Mass Florencia Canelli, Wilson Fellow, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 A Revolution in Numerical Simulations of Binary Black Holes Mark Scheel, senior research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 15
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Spectral Theory of 1-D Continuous Schrödinger Operator with Unbounded Potential Stanislav Molchanov, professor of mathematics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Ends of Stellar Lives at the Galactic Center Michael Muno, postdoctoral researcher in astronomy, Caltech,

Thursday, November 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter Michael Ramsey-Musolf, senior research associate in physics, Caltech,

Friday, November 17
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Parity and Time Reversal Violation in Atoms and Nuclei, and Test of Unification Theories Victor Flambaum, University of New South Wales and Argonne National Laboratory,
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Albion Lawrence, assistant professor of physics, Brandeis University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 SLE for String Theorists Paul Wiegmann, professor of physics, University of Chicago,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Statistical Learning II: Representation, Generalization, and Examples.

Monday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Mechanics of DNA at High Curvature Philip Nelson, professor of physics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 On-Shell Methods in QCD Zvi Bern, professor of physics, UCLA,

Tuesday, November 21
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Variation of Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks Victor Flambaum, University of New South Wales and Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Start-up of the OPERA Experiment Alessandro Paoloni, research scientist, Frascati LNF, INFN,

Wednesday, November 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) A Revised Model for the Formation of Disk Galaxies Stephane Courteau, assistant professor of physics, Queen's University,

Monday, November 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Improving Event Generators with Effective Theories Christian Bauer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Perturbation Theory for Infinite Dimensional Integrable Systems on the Line

Tuesday, November 28
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Ancillae with Homogeneous Errors Bryan Eastin, graduate student in physics, University of New Mexico,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Rupali Chandar, postdoctoral research associate, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Baryogenesis Below the TeV Scale Abs Federico Urban, graduate student and research assistant in physics, INFN—University of Ferrara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Hydrogen Tunneling and Protein Motion in Enzyme Reactions Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and professor of chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Generating Squeezed States of Light for Gravitational Wave Detection Kirk McKenzie, Center for Gravitational Physics, Australian National University, Canberra,

Wednesday, November 29
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Effect of Disorder on Polymer Depinning Transitions Ken Alexander, professor of mathematics, USC,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topological Strings on Compact Calabi-Yau Spaces: Modularity and Boundary Conditions Minxin Huang, research associate in physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) A New Generation of Stellar Population Synthesis Models, and Galaxy Evolution Claudia Maraston, Marie Curie Fellow, department of astrophysics, University of Oxford,

Thursday, November 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Is Evolution Understood? Quantitative Questions from a Statistical Mechanic Daniel S. Fisher, professor of physics and applied physics, Harvard University,