Thursday, May 1
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Thesis Seminar Topic to be announced. Claire Levaillant, graduate student in mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmology with 21-cm Radio Observations Rennan Barkana, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, and lecturer, physics and astronomy, Tel Aviv University,

Friday, May 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Pedro Vieira, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique École Normale Supérieure, Paris,

Monday, May 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 On the Photon Decay into Extra Dimensions Alexander Friedland, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Tuesday, May 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Secure Optical Key Generation Using an Ultra-Long Fiber Laser Avi Zadok, postdoctoral scholar in applied physics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Claudia Maraston, senior lecturer in astrophysics, University of Oxford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 New Puzzles and Discoveries in Quarkonium Physics Bryan Fulsom, graduate student in physics, University of British Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Prospects for LIGO Detection of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei Vanessa Lauburg, graduate student in astronomy, University of Maryland,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture Geometries for Automorphism Groups of Free Groups Karen Vogtmann, professor of mathematics, Cornell University,

Wednesday, May 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Properties of Absolutely Continuous Spectral Measures of 1D Quasiperiodic Operators Svetlana Jitomirskaya, professor of mathematics, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescopes Gary Sanders, project manager, Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,

Thursday, May 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Double-beta decay and the Quest for Neutrino Masses Giorgio Gratta, professor of physics, Stanford University,

Friday, May 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Non-Supersymmetric String Theory Sav Sethi, associate professor of physics, University of Chicago,

Monday, May 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Gravity B Experiment Francis Everitt, professor of physics, Stanford University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 The Key Role of Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream

Tuesday, May 13
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Memories in Atomic Spin Lattices Liang Jiang, graduate student in physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Responsive Nanoporous Organic-Inorganic Colloidal Materials Ilya Zharov, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Spin Physics from the STAR Experiment at RHIC Stephen Trentalange, researcher in astronomy and astrophysics, UCLA,

Wednesday, May 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral Properties of a q-Sturm–Liouville Operator Jacob Christiansen, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium: 10th Annual Greenstein Lecture Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Luminosity Functions: From Quasars to Gamma-Ray Bursts Maarten Schmidt, Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticle Medicines: Mark E. Davis Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Theories of the Explosive Death of Massive Stars Adam Burrows, professor of astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,

Friday, May 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Breaking R-Symmetry for General Gauge Mediation John Mason, graduate student in physics, UC Santa Cruz,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The G2-MSSM, from Moduli Stabilization and a De Sitter Minimum to LHC and Dark Matter Phenomenology Gordon Kane, professor of physics, University of Michigan,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Seminar East Bridge 114 Astrophysical Probe of New Physics: Cosmological Dark Matter and Anisotropy Shin'ichiro Ando, Sherman Fairchild Fellow, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,

Monday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Molecular Choreography: Programming Nucleic Acid Self-Assembly and Disassembly Pathways Niles A. Pierce, associate professor of applied and computational mathematics and bioengineering, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Little Higgs Model with T-Parity Maxim Perelstein, assistant professor of theoretical physics, Cornell University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 High-Frequency Scattering by Obstacles with Conical Singularities: Asymptotics and Numerics

Tuesday, May 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Communication with Two Zero-Capacity Channels Graeme Smith, postdoctoral scholar, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Charles Steidel, DuBridge Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Downs 117 Calculating the Closed String Partition Function of a Calabi-Yau A-infinity Category Kevin Costello, assistant professor of mathematics, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Photon Analysis Techniques at CDF and Latest Results Max Goncharov, research scientist in physics, Texas A&M University,

Wednesday, May 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Universality Limits for Random Matrices via Classical Complex Analysis Doron Lubinsky, professor of mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Coherent Optics and Hybrid Silicon—III-V Devices Amnon Yariv, Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Gravitational Wave Astronomy Neil Cornish, assistant professor of physics, Montana State University,

Thursday, May 22
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Photonics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses—From Basic Research to Medical Applications Torsten Fiebig, assistant professor of chemistry, Boston College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Spin Liquid: From Drought to Deluge Patrick A. Lee, professor of physics, MIT,

Friday, May 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Nori Iizuka, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, May 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Detection Confidence in Searches for Gravitational-Wave Transients Erik Katsavounidis, associate professor of physics, MIT,

Wednesday, May 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Operator Mobius Transformations of CMV Matrices and Orthogonal Rational Functions Luis Velazquez, professor of applied mathematics, University of Zaragoza, Spain,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Metallicity and Star-Formation History of Galaxies Lisa Kewley, research fellow, Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii,
5:45 pm - 8:00 pm	2008 Mathematics Department Awards Banquet Athenaeum

Thursday, May 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Technology of Submillimeter Astronomy Jonas Zmuidzinas, professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, May 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar—cancelled Lauritsen 469 Anindya Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow in particle, subatomic, and string theory, University of British Columbia,