Monday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Scale-Factor Cutoff Measure on the Multiverse Michael Salem, postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University,

Tuesday, November 4
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium MHD in Action—from Local Spirals to DLAs Sukanya Chakrabarti, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Cosmological Chiral Condensate and the Cosmological Constant Stephon Alexander, assistant professor of physics, the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Towards High-Performance and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Networks Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Mystery of Vus from Tau Decays Swagato Banerjee, research associate in high energy physics, University of Victoria; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Wednesday, November 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Extensions of Discrete Classical Orthogonal Polynomials Beyond the Orthogonality Roberto Costas, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment Cristiano Galbiati, assistant professor of physics, Princeton University,

Friday, November 7
8:00 am - 7:00 pm	Annual Olive Harvest Festival See event detail for location
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields Michael Kiermaier, graduate student in theoretical physics, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Chirality and Kondo Physics in Graphene Herb Fertig, professor of physics, Indiana University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects Matthias Wapler, graduate student, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Noble Liquids—The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches Cristiano Galbiati, assistant professor of physics, Princeton University,

Monday, November 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Precision Muon Physics: New Results and Future Prospects David Hertzog, Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Swarming by Nature and by Design

Tuesday, November 11
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Coulomb Gas in 2-D Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Brant Robertson, Spitzer Fellow, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, the University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Integrated Tempering, Sampling, and Understanding of Water/Air Inferface Structure Yi-Qin Gao, assistant professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Gravitational Radiation from Pulsar Glitches: Nuclear Physics with LIGO Andrew Melatos, lecturer in physics, University of Melbourne,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Latest Results from Borexino Andrea Pocar, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, November 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Toda Flows Christian Remling, assistant professor of mathematics, University of Oklahoma,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Leslie Tamppari: The Phoenix Mission Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Information Processing in Living Cells: Beyond First Approximations Ido Golding, assistant professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Friday, November 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Towards M2 Branes Probing Generic Toric Singularities Diego Rodriguez-Gomez, visiting postdoctoral research associate in physics, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Gaps in Our Understanding of High Temperature Superconductors Eric Hudson, professor of physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Short Baseline Neutrino Disappearance at Fermilab Kendall Mahn, graduate student in physics, Columbia University,

Monday, November 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Line Emission in Cooling Flow Brightest Cluster Galaxies Louise Edwards, postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center , Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Actin Crazy! Creation and Destruction of Cytoskeletal Networks R. Dyche Mullins, associate professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, UC San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Markovian Energies Minimization via Maximum Flow
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Dark Top David Poland, postdoctoral fellow in physics, Harvard University ,

Tuesday, November 18
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Accurate and Decoherence-Protected Adiabatic Quantum Computation Daniel Lidar, associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering and Department of Physics, USC,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Zoltan Haiman, associate professor of astronomy, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Pushing, Pulling, and Squeezing Proteins: Theory and Computer Simulations of Protein Translocation Dmitrii E. Makarov, associate professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Structure of the Proton from Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions Stephen Trentalange, research associate in physics and astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spontaneously Broken Hidden Gauge Symmetries Devin Walker, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, November 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Kooman's Theorem and Point Perturbation Manwah Lilian Wong, graduate student in mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Making Galaxies on Supercomputers; One Star at a Time Tom Abel, associate professor of physics, Stanford University,

Thursday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Status of Prospects of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments Niki Saoulidou, Wilson Fellow, Fermilab,

Friday, November 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Four-Dimensional Structure of String Compactifications Gonzalo Torroba, graduate student in high energy theory, Rutgers University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Novel Quantum Phases in Orbital Systems with Cold Atom Optical Lattices Congjun Wu, assistant professor of physics, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Precision Spectroscopy in Fr and Rb for Studies of the Electroweak Interaction in Atomic Systems Adrian Galvan, resident graduate assistant is physics, University of Maryland,

Monday, November 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Searches for Subgravitational Forces Jay Wacker, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Computing Reionization with the Moments of the Transfer Equation: First Results on Topology Kristian Finlator, graduate assistant/associate in astronomy, University of Arizona,

Tuesday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Understanding Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Help of Gravitational Waves Christian Ott, postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics including relativity, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Antineutrinos in Minos Alex Himmel, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Strongly Interacting Electrons in Chemistry Garnet K.-L. Chan, assistant professor, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Cornell University,

Wednesday, November 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Hyperbolic Hypergeometric Functions Fokko van de Bult, Bateman Instructor, Mathematics, Caltech,