Tuesday, May 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Practical Error Correction for Quantum Key Distribution James Harrington, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELLED Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Edo Berger, research fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution in Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 CMS ECAL 2006 Test Beams Effort Christopher Rogan, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture The Universe Beyond (Far Beyond) W. Hugh Woodin, professor of mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, May 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Intersection of Paths and High-Dimensional Random Walk in Random Noam Berger, assistant professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Dynamics of Young Star Clusters Stephen L. W. McMillan, professor of physics, Drexel University,

Thursday, May 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Recent Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Future Directions Lyman Page, Henry De Wolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Princeton University,

Friday, May 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 5-D Black Holes and Strings with Higher Derivatives Joshua Davis, postgraduate researcher, department of physics and astronomy, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Mechanical Quantum Resonators: A Proposal to Create and Detect Single Phonons in a Bulk Mechanical Resonator Andrew Cleland, professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Monday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Universal Nonperturbative Effects in Two-Jet Event Shapes Chris Lee, postdoctoral research associate, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Stability of Black Holes

Tuesday, May 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Geometry of Quantum Criticality Paolo Zanardi, associate professor of physics, USC,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Quasars Probing Quasars: Shedding (Quasar) Light on High Redshift Galaxies Joseph Hennawi, Hubble Fellow, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Preparing to Search for New Physics with the CMS ECAL Marat Gataullin, assistant scientist in high energy physics, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On Hyperbolic Dynamics and Properties of the Spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian Anton Gorodetski, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Lilia Anguelova, reasearch associate in theoretical physics, Queen Mary, University of London,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The SKA Science Case James Cordes, professor of astronomy, Cornell University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics Freiman's Theorem Ben Green, Herchel Smith Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Brain Plasticity During Learning and Memory: Erin Schuman Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 MicroRNAs: From Scale Invariance to Stem Cells Jonathan Miller, assistant professor, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Probing Chemical Reactions with Force, One Bond at a Time Julio Fernandez, professor of biological sciences, Columbia University,

Friday, May 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Sumit Das, department of physics and astronomy, University of Kentucky,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Measurements of Electron Correlation Effects in Nanotubes and Nanowires David Cobden, assistant professor of physics, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Neutrino Mass Implications for Beta Decay Parameters and Branching Ratio of pi -> nu nu-bar Peng Wang, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics Gowers Norms and Nilsequences

Monday, May 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Low-Energy Gauge Mediation from Metastable Vacua Yuri Shirman, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Electromagnetic Integral Equations Requiring Small Numbers of GMRES Iterations
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Cycles on Varieties over Subfields of C and Cubic Equivalence James Lewis, professor, department of mathematical and statistical sciences, University of Alberta,

Tuesday, May 15
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Finding Braids for Topological Quantum Computation Nick Bonesteel, professor of physics, Florida State University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A New Ultraviolet Perspective on Several Famous Stellar Prototypes Mark Seibert, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Understanding Folding, Assembly and Design Principles of RNA for Biomaterials Nano-Construction Luc Jaeger, assistant professor, department of chemistry and biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Ordered Quantum and Dot Systems for Nano-Photonics Applications Eli Kapon, professor of physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 "Electron Neutrino Appearance in MINOS" Juan Pedro Ochoa, graduate student in high energy physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Constraining Gravitational Waves with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Elena Pierpaoli, associate professor of physics and astronomy, USC,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics Arithmetic Progressions

Wednesday, May 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Absolutely Continuous Spectral Measures of Analytic Quasiperiodic Operators Svetlana Jitomirskaya, prodessor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Topic to be announced. Anneila Sargent, Rosen Professor of Astronomy, Caltech, and director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics: Topics in Additive Combinatorics Patterns of Primes

Thursday, May 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Visualization of Quantum Phenomena Wilson Ho, Donald Bren professor of physics, astronomy, and chemistry, University of California, Irvine,

Friday, May 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Polariton Condensation in CdTe Microcavities: From Theory to Practice Francesca Marchetti, Dr., Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Topic to be announced. Jens Erler, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,

Monday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Jens Erler, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Cardiovascular System Scott E. Fraser, Rosen Professor of Biology, professor of bioengineering, and director pf the MRI Center, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Domain Decomposition for Multiscale Elliptic PDEs

Tuesday, May 22
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Algorithms for Identifying Hidden Polynomial Functions Graphs Pawel Wocjan, assistant professor of computer science, University of Central Florida,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Nature of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes Joe Mazzarella, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Single-Molecule Protein Dynamics and Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles Freely Moving in 3-D Haw Yang, assistant professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 LSO/LYSO Crystals for a Future Precision Crystal Calorimeter Ren-yuan Zhu, member of the professional staff, High Energy Physics, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Cosmology with the SZ-Array and the South Pole Telescope—Ninth Annual Greenstein Lecture Professor John Carlstrom, department of astronomy and astrophysics, and department of physics, University of Chicago,

Thursday, May 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Spacetimes Lee Lindblom, senior research associate in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,

Friday, May 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. L. Fernando Alday, Utrecht University and Institute for Advanced Study,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law at a Quantum Critical Point Johnpierre Paglione, postdoctoral researcher in physics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Topic to be announced. Christopher Mauger, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 29
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium ALMA Chris Carilli, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) 'Clicking' Molecular Species to Surfaces: A Versatile, Robust and Field-Programmable Coupling Strategy on Gold, Glass and Carbon Substrates Christopher Chidsey, associate professor of physical chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, May 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Spectrum of a q-Sturm-Liouville Operator Jacob Christiansen, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, Caltech,

Thursday, May 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Viscosity, Black Holes, and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Dam Thanh Son, senior fellow and associate professor, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington,