Monday, February 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Leptophilic Dark Matter Patrick Fox, Fermilab,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Wave-Corpuscle Mechanics for Elementary Charges
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Superconductor Insulator Transition in Thin Films Driven by an Orbital Parallel Magnetic Field Effect Dganit Meidan, graduate student in condensed matter physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Tuesday, February 3
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Fascinating Behavior of Water at Hydrophobic Surfaces Geraldine L. Richmond, professor of chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene,
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Joint ACM/GALCIT/ME Seminar Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Localization of Mushy-Layer Convection
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Life Cycles of Star Clusters Mike Fall, Space Telescope Science Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Confronting the White Elephant: Upsilon Physics at the Babar B-Factory Stephen Sekula, postdoctoral scientist in physics, Ohio State University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Topic to be announced.

Wednesday, February 4
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Criterion for Purely Absolutely Continuous Measures on Homogeneous Sets Maxim Zinchenko, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Structure and Evolution of Obscured Quasars Nadia Zakamska, Institute for Advanced Study,

Thursday, February 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Laser-Polarized Noble Gases: A Powerful Probe for Biology, Medicine, and Subatomic Physics Gordon D. Cates Jr., professor of physics, University of Virginia,

Friday, February 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Target Space Duality in Curved Backgrounds Volker Schomerus, professor of string theory, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Valley Hall Effect in Graphene Ivar Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Polarized He-3, the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron, and Quark Orbital Angular Momentum Gordon Cates, professor of physics, University of Virginia,

Monday, February 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Selected Physics Results from the Pierre Auger Southern Observatory John Matthews, professor of physics, University of New Mexico,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Signaling Nutrient Conditions through Small Molecule Metabolites Erin O'Shea, professor of molecular and cellular biology and of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University,

Tuesday, February 10
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Syzygies: Occultations, Eclipses, and Transits Jay Pasachoff, professor of astronomy, Williams College,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Simplicity of Binary Black Hole Coalescence and its Implications for Detection Deirdre Shoemaker, Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, February 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar An Index Formula in Terms of the Lifshits-Krein Spectral Shift Function Fritz Gesztesy, professor of mathematics, University of Missouri,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Nature and Evolution of the Most Luminous Galaxies Andrew Blain, assistant professor of astronomy, Caltech,

Thursday, February 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Many-Body Quantum Interference: Seeing Strongly Correlated States of Ultracold Atoms Ehud Altman, senior scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Friday, February 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Framework for the Baryon Asymmetry, Dark Matter and the Moduli Problem Piyush Kumar, postdoctoral scholar in physics, UC Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Steady States and Phase Transitions in the Presence of Non-Equilibrium Noise Ehud Altman, professor of submicron electronics, Weizmann Institute of Sciences,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Searching for Dark Matter with Liquid Argon—The DEAP/CLEAN Project Bei Cai, postdoctoral scholar in particle astrophysics, Queen's University,

Monday, February 16
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	27th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:30 pm	27th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting

Tuesday, February 17
9:00 am - 5:15 pm	27th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
9:00 am - 5:15 pm	27th Annual Western States Mathematical Physics Meeting
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Interacting Anyonic Fermions in a Two-body Color Code Model Hector Bombín, postdoctoral scholar, Universidad Complutense, Madrid,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Stellar Populations with HST: Probing the History of Galaxies Julianne Dalcanton, associate professor of astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Moore B270 Surface Plasmon Resonance Performance Enhancement with Applications in Nano Bio and Chemical Sensors Lambertus Hesselink, professor of electrical engineering, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Collisional Excitation of Interstellar Matter: Potential Energy Surfaces, Cross Sections, Rates Laurent Wiesenfeld, professor of astrophysics, Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 DM-TPC: A Novel Approach to Directional Dark Matter Detection Gabriella Sciolla, assistant professor of physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Coding for Distributed Storage

Wednesday, February 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope: Resolving Galaxy Formation on Sub-kpc scales via Gravitational Lensing Mark Swinbank, Institute for Compuational Cosmology, University of Durham,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Harry Gray: Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, February 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Mechanical Structures at Quantum Limits: State of Play and Future Prospects Keith Schwab, professor of applied physics, Caltech,

Friday, February 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Operator Space of Pure Spinors and Some Applications Yuri Aisaka, International Fellowships Program, Sao Paolo,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Albion Lawrence, assistant professor of physics, Brandeis University,

Monday, February 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Topic to be announced. Julianne Dalcanton, associate professor of astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The mu-problem in Non-Minimal Gauge Mediation John Mason, postdoctoral fellow in physics, Harvard University,

Tuesday, February 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Continuous vs. Discrete Oracles Daniel Gottesman, faculty member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Detection of Z~2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields Jeff Cooke, postdoctoral fellow in physics and astronomy, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Extreme Terahertz Sources Roberto Morandotti, professor, Ultrafast Optical Processing Group, National Institute of Scientific Research in Varennes Canada (EMT-INRS),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Progress in the LSC/Virgo Search Pipelines for Compact Binary Coalescences Drew Keppel, graduate student, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 Crystal Calorimeters in the Next Decade Ren-yuan Zhu, member of the professional staff in high energy physics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Physical Chemistry of Aerosols: A Way to Understand the Role of Aerosols A.R. Ravishankara, assistant professor, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Coding for Distributed Storage

Wednesday, February 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Singular Spectrum for Radial Trees Jonathan Breuer, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Interferometric Measurements of the Size, Shape, and Behavior of Stars Charles Townes, professor of astrophysics, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, February 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Field Theory for the LHC Aneesh Manohar, professor of physics, UC San Diego,

Friday, February 27
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Kerr/CFT Correspondence Andrew Strominger, professor of physics, Harvard University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Proposed Experiments to Observe Non-abelian Quantum Statistics Ady Stern, professor of condensed matter physics, Weizmann Institute of Science,

Saturday, February 28
9:30 am - 5:30 pm	Southern California Number Theory Day 2009