Tuesday, January 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Diamondoids and Plasmonic Analysis of Molecular Junctions Nicholas A. Melosh, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 9
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Phase Diagram of Holographic QCD Oren Bergman, Institute for Advanced Study,

Thursday, January 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescope Gary Sanders, project manager, Thirty Meter Telescope Project, Caltech,

Friday, January 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Noncommutative Solitons and Integrable Systems Masashi Hamanaka, assistant professor of mathematics, Nagoya University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library KamLand Daniel Dwyer, postdoctoral scholar, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Caltech,

Monday, January 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Tevatron Race for the Higgs Boson Ben Kilminster, researcher in particle physics, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, January 15
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Baryogenesis, EDMs, and the Higgs Boson Michael Ramsey-Musolf, senior research associate in physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 ATLAS Experiment Design and Early Physics Jason Nielsen, assistant professor of physics, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Tunneling . . . When You Least Expect It Eric J. Heller, professor of chemistry and of physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Iterative Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements

Wednesday, January 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Pure AC Spectrum for Reflectionless Jacobi, CMV, and Schrodinger Operators Maxim Zinchenko, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) AzTEC 1100 Micron Survey of (Sub-)millimeter Galaxies: Cosmic Variance, Large Scale Structure, and the LMT Minq Yun, radio astronomer and an associate professor of astronomy, University of Massachusetts,

Thursday, January 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Metrology with Precision Light and Ultracold Atoms Jun Ye, fellow, JILA, and associate professor adjoint in physics, University of Colorado,

Friday, January 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Paths in the String Theory Landscape Magdalena Larfors, graduate student in theoretical physics, Uppsala University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Glue and Seak Quarks in the Nucleon Keh-Fei Liu, professor of physics, University of Kentucky,

Monday, January 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Special Kellogg Seminar—CANCELED Lauritsen Library Ryoichi Seki, visiting associate in physics, Caltech, and professor of physics, Cal State Northridge,

Tuesday, January 22
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Do the Milky Way's Outskirts Live Up to Cosmological Expectations? Hans-Walter Rix, Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Binary Black Holes: Numerical Simulations and Approximation Methods Lawrence Kidder, senior research associate in astronomy, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Iterative Signal Recovery from Incomplete and Inaccurate Measurements
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Strong Dispersive Coupling between a High Finesse Cavity and a Micromechanical Object Jack Harris, assistant professor of physics and applied physics, Yale University,

Wednesday, January 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Mean Field Analysis of Low-Dimensional Systems Lincoln Chayes, professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Detecting Extrasolar Planets, Plants, and Beaches Ed Turner, professor of astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	The Pacific-North American Plate Boundary: Joann M. Stock Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. Coli Ned Wingreen, professor of molecular biology, Princeton University,

Friday, January 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Interesting Results from MiniBooNe and MiniBooNE-NUMI Gerry Garvey, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Unparticle Physics Howard Georgi, professor of physics, Harvard University,

Monday, January 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Pseudo-Chern-Simons Terms in the Standard Model, with Applications Jeff Harvey, professor of physics, The University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Josh Winn, assistant professor of physics, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Geometrization of Continuum and Discrete Mechanics

Tuesday, January 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Simulated Annealing Sergio Boixo, 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 The Cosmic History of AGN Amy Barger, associate professor of astronomy, The University of Wisconsin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Observation of a New Bottom-Strange Xi(b) Baryon at CDF Dmitry Litvintsev, research scientist in particle physics, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) A Plausible Origin of Life Through Metabolism D. Eric Smith, professor, Santa Fe Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Robust Self-Assembly

Wednesday, January 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Quantum Ising Model via Stochastic Geometry Geoffrey Grimmett, professor of pure mathematics and mathematical statistics, Cambridge University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Terahertz Detection of Many-Body Signatures in Semiconductor Heterostructures Professor Sangam Chatterjee, professor of physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies James S. Bullock, assistant professor of physics, department of astronomy, UC Irvine,

Thursday, January 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Entanglement Renormalization, Quantum Criticality, and Topological Order Guifre Vidal, ARC Federation Fellow and Professor in the School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia,