Friday, February 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in String Models Jason Kumar, assistant project scientist, department of physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar—CANCELLED Lauritsen 469 Mina Aganagic, professor of mathematical physics, UC Berkeley,

Monday, February 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Quantitative studies of synthetic and endogenous control in bacteria Terence Hwa, professor of physics, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics and department of physics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Topic to be announced. Misty Bentz, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 After the Standard Model: Some Things We Might See at the LHC Gustaaf Brooijmans, assistant professor of physics, Columbia University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Radar Science and Engineering at JPL: A Computational Cornucopia

Tuesday, February 5
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Black Holes of All Masses: New Results and Fundamental Correlations Karl Gebhardt, professor of astronomy, The University of Texas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Neutron Beta-DeCay and the Value of Vud Bradley (Brad) Plaster, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Kellogg Radiation Lab, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Massive Black Holes: From Early Times to the Present Marta Volonteri, assistant professor of astronomy, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Robust Self-Assembly

Wednesday, February 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Lyapunov Exponents of Nonlinear Cocycles Artur Avila, Laboratoire de Probabilites et Modeles Aleatoires, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time Risa H. Wechsler, assistant professor of physics, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University,

Thursday, February 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Precision Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with Reactor Neutrinos Karsten Heeger, assistant professor of physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Friday, February 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 New N=2 S-Duality and AdS/CFT Yuji Tachikawa, postdoctoral fellow in natural sciences, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminar East Bridge 114 Signatures from Reheating after Inflation: Gravitational Waves and Primordial Magnetic Fields Juan Garcia-Bellido, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,

Monday, February 11
4:00 am - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Footprints of the Beyond in Flavor Physics Amarjit Soni, The Johns Hopkins University,
8:00 am - 6:00 pm	Workshop on Multivariate Analysis in HEP and Astrophysics Winnett Lounge
8:00 am - 6:00 pm	Workshop on Multivariate Analysis in HEP and Astrophysics Winnett Lounge Multivariate Techniques for Separating Signal and Background
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Topic to be announced. Erik Muller, astronomer, Australia Telescope National Facility ,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Nanotubes in Global Warming: From Dynamic Topology in Superplasticity to Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment

Tuesday, February 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Nanoscale Quantum Optics: From Single-Photon Devices to Strongly Correlated Systems Darrick Chang, graduate student in physics, Harvard University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Black Hole-Bulge Relations Across the Hubble Sequence Jenny Greene, postdoctoral research associate in astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,

Wednesday, February 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Groundbreaking Ceremony for Schlinger Laboratory See event detail for location
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Estimating Billiard Complexities Eugene Gutkin, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil, and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) An Overview of Results from the CHARA Array on Mount Wilson Harold A. McAlister, professor of astronomy, Georgia State University,

Thursday, February 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Entangled Electrons in the Solid State: Quantum Interference and Dephasing Moty Heiblum, professorial chair in submicron electronics, department of condensed matter physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Friday, February 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Boost-Invariant Plasma in AdS/CFT Alex Buchel, assistant professor of applied mathematics, Western Ontario University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Vortex-Quark Interaction in N=4 SYM from AdS/CFT Correspondence Soo-Jong Rey, Seoul National University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Entanglement and Ground State Cooling in Optomechanical Systems
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library CKM Unitarity Roland Winston, professor of engineering, UC Merced,

Monday, February 18
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	26th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	26th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 19
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	26th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	26th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 How to Quantum Compute Against Biased Noise Panos Aliferis, IBM, Watson Research Center,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Lensed Star-Forming Galaxies and Obscured AGN at 1 < z < 3 Jane Rigby, Spitzer Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 High-Resolution Observations of Proto-Planetary Disks in the MM Wavelength Regime Andrea Isella, graduate student in astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Thomas Wolff Memorial Lecture in Mathematics Renormalization and Quasiperiodicity in Some Low-Dimensional Dynamical Systems Andre Avila, Laboratoire de Probabilites et Modeles Aleatoires,

Wednesday, February 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Boundary Control Approach to Spectral Inverse Problems Sergei Avdonin, professor of mathematics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Sweet Spot Supersymmetry Ryuchiro Kitano, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Free Electron Lasers and E-Beam Radiation Sources Avi Gover, professor of engineering, physical electronics department, Tel Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Life and Death of the First Stars Alexander Heger, associate professor, University of Minnesota, and associate adjunct professor, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, Prospects Sir Anthony J. Leggett, Nobel laureate and professor and chair of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Earth Attacks! New Results from the Planet Mars: Richard Zurek Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Dried to Order: Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Self- Assembled Nanoparticle Monolayers Heinrich Jaeger, professor of physics, James Franck Institute and the University of Chicago,

Friday, February 22
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Keck 142 Entanglement and Ground State Cooling in Optomechanical Systems David Vitali, professor of physics, University of Camerino, Italy,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Deuteron E/M Form Factors Dan Phillips, associate professor of physics, Ohio University,

Monday, February 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 New Science with Large-Aperture Infrared Interferometry: First Fringes on Galactic Center Stars and the Near Future of the Keck Interferometer Jörg-Uwe Pott, Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Frontiers in Fluorescence Imaging Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, head of the unit on organelle biology, cell biology and metabolism, National Institute of Child Health and Humann Development, National Institutes of Health,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Top Jets and Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Mass Sean Fleming, assistant professor of physics, University of Arizona,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Topic to be announced.

Tuesday, February 26
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Complementarity and Wave-Particle Duality Berthold-Georg Englert, professor of physics, National University of Singapore,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxies, Dark Matter and Black Holes at z=1 Alison Coil, postdoctoral researcher and Hubble Fellow, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Towards Fusion Energy for Space Propulsion Setthivoine You, department of electrical engineering, University of Tokyo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Goodness-of-fit—Pitfalls and Power Frank Porter, professor of physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems

Wednesday, February 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Zeros of Heine-Stieltjes Polynomials and Critical Measures Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, professor of mathematics, Universidad de Almeria,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Sensing Nanomechanical Motion with a Resonant Microwave Interferometer Konrad Lehnert, associate fellow, JILA, and assistant professor of physics , University of Colorado,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey Connie Rockosi, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, and assistant astronomer, UCO/Lick Observatory,

Thursday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Noisy Dynamics of Cell-Fate Decision-Making Michael Elowitz, Bren Scholar and assistant professor of biology and applied physics, Caltech,

Friday, February 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Strong Coupling Expansion for N=4 SYM and Other Superconformal Field Theories David Berenstein, assistant professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 D-Branes in LG-Models and Mirror Symmetry Dmitri Orlov, Steklov Institute, Moscow,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Gamma Ray Telescope Rene Ong, professor of astronomy, UCLA,