Thursday, February 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Monitoring the Earth's Climate through Gravity: Latest Results from GRACE Michael Watkins, research scientist, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group, JPL,

Friday, February 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Infinite Dimensional R Symmetries in M-Theory Hermann Nicolai, Albert Einstein Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Theory of the Phase Diagram of the Cuprates Chandra Varma, professor of physics, UC Riverside,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Edge Coloring with Delays

Tuesday, February 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 The Quantum Chernoff Bound and Asymptotic Error Exponents in Quantum Hypothesis Testing Frank Verstraete, professor of theoretical physics, University of Vienna,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Echoes of Galaxy Assembly: Faint Light Around Nearby Galaxies Julianne Dalcanton, associate professor of astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Constraining the Standard Model: Recent Results from D0 John Ellison, professor of physics and astronomy, UC Riverside,

Wednesday, February 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Wavepacket Spreading on the Fibonacci Chain David Damanik, associate professor of mathematics, Rice University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology Bob Kirshner, professor of science, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Thomae's Theorem and Some Generalizations Herschel Farkas, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Thursday, February 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quasicrystals—Some of Nature's Most Intriguing Forms of Matter Ron Lifshitz, senior lecturer in physics, Tel Aviv University,

Friday, February 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Dynamics of a Magnetic Superfluid Dan Stamper-Kurn, assistant professor of atomic physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Effective Operators, Neutrino Mass, Muon Decay, and Higgs Production Jennifer Kile, graduate student in physics, Caltech,

Monday, February 12
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Can an Iterative Method Converge in a Finite Number of Iterations?

Tuesday, February 13
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium An Imaging Survey of Late-type Galaxies: Local Bechnmarks of Galaxy Evolution Violet Mager, postdoctoral research associate, publications and preprints, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar IMSS 120 The Electron Cloud at Fermilab and as a Limit to Particle Accelerator Performance Robert Zwaska, research scientist, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Small Time: A Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Kitching John, physicist, time and frequency division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Spectroscopy of Molecules Without Structures: A High Resolution Viewpoint Professor David Nesbitt, department of chemistry and biochemistry, JILA/NIST, University of Colorado at Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 A Bayesian Estimation of Confusion Noise in the LISA Data Richard Umstaetter, postdoctoral fellow, astrophysics and space sciences, JPL,

Wednesday, February 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Edge Behavior of the Spectral Measure for Slowly Decaying Monotone Potentials Yoram Last, Hebrew University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Massive black holes from early times to the present Marta Volonteri, University of Cambridge,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Snowball Earth: Joe Kirschvink Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing Matthew P. A. Fisher, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, February 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 On the CFT/AdS Correspondence and Massive Gravitons Ofer Aharony, associate professor of particle physics, Weizmann Institute,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Anyons in a Weakly Interacting System Marcel Franz, associate professor, department of physics and astronomy, University of British Columbia,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Tohru Eguchi, department of physics, University of Tokyo,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Low Distortion Embeddings for Edit Distance
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Looking for Dark Matter in the Neutrino Sector Alexander Kusenko, associate professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA,

Monday, February 19
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	25th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	25th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 20
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	25th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	25th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Cloning and Broadcasting in Generalized Probabilistic Theories Matthew Leifer, visiting postdoctoral researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems: A Systematic Approach Gregory A. Voth, professor of chemistry and director of the Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Physics Anno 2007 with the Crystal Ball in Its Fourth Incarnation Bernard Nefkens, professor of physics, UCLA,

Wednesday, February 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Group Theory Seminar Unipotent Classes in Simple Algebraic Groups Gary Seitz, professor of mathematics, University of Oregon,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Topic to be announced. Jonas Zmuidzinas, professor of physics, Caltech,

Thursday, February 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Testing the Equivalence Principle for Dark Matter Marc Kamionkowski, Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Caltech,

Friday, February 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Moduli Stabilization in Nongeometric Backgrounds Katrin Becker, professor of physics, Texas A&M University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Emergence of Spin-Half Fermion Vortices and the Vortex Metal Assa Auerbach, professor of physics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar—CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 Melanie Becker, professor of physics, Texas A&M University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Applied Physics Special Seminar Watson 104 Intrinsic Noise Properties of Atomic Point Contact Displacement Amplifiers Konrad Lehnert, associate fellow of JILA and assistant professor of physics, NIST, University of Colorado,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Expanders, Groups, and Applications
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Topic to be announced. Paul Langacker, professor of theoretical elementary particle physics, the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for Advanced Studies,

Monday, February 26
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Numerical Analysis of a Sparse gPC-FEM for PDE Problems with Stochastic Data
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Scale of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant within a Landscape Michael Salem, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Broad 100 From Proteins Searching Target Sites on DNA to Conductivity of Nanowires and Beyond Alexander Grosberg, professor of physics, University of Minnesota,

Wednesday, February 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Lagrangian Tori and Spectra for Non-Selfadjoint Operators Michael Hitrik, associate professor of mathematics, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Tours of NASA's Spitzer Science Center Keith Spalding Building
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Surveying the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Laboratory,