Thursday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Studying the Dark Universe with Galaxy Clustering John Peacock, professor of cosmology and head of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland,

Monday, October 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Detecting Low-Mass Substructure via Gravitational Imaging Simna Vegetti, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Development of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers in the U.S. Mitchell Soderberg, postdoctoral scholar in high energy neutrino physics, Yale University,

Tuesday, October 6
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Towards a New Understanding of Star Formation in Galaxies Pavel Kroupa, professor of astronomy, Universitaet Bonn,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Schroedinger's Mirrors—Extending Quantum Experiments Using Massive Mechanical Resonators Markus Aspelmeyer, professor of physics , University of Vienna,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar See event detail for location Effective Field Theory Methods for Gravitational Binaries Chad Galley, postdoctoral research in physics, University of Maryland,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring Electron Transfer: From Photochemistry to Energy Conversion Troy Van Voorhis, associate professor of chemistry, MIT,

Wednesday, October 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Normal Matrix Ensemble by Riemann-Hilbert Method Seung-Yeop Lee, Sherman Fairchild Research Fellow in Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way and Andromeda

Thursday, October 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics, Caltech,

Friday, October 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Aspects of F-theory GUTs Jonthan Heckman, Institute for Advanced Study,

Monday, October 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Ground States and Excitations of Spatially Anisotropic Quantum Antiferromagnets Oleg Starykh, associate professor of physics, University of Utah,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium New Results for Giant Arc Statistics in ~100 Clusters Observed with HST Assaf Horesh, graduate student, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The How, the Where, and the Why of Oscillations in Cell Signaling Andre Levchenko, professor of biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Testing Eternal Inflation with Cosmic Bubble Collisions Matthew Johnson, postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 13
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. James Bullock, associate professor of cosmology, UC Irvine,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring Molecular Wheel Nanotubes Inside and Out: A Xenon Atom's View Clifford R. Bowers, associate professor of chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville,

Wednesday, October 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Universality Limits of a Reproducing Kernel for a Half-Line Schrodinger Operator and Clock Behavior of Eigenvalues Anna Maltsev, graduate student in mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks John Carpenter, deputy director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, and senior research associate in astronomy, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Chris Martin: Exploring the Ultraviolet Universe Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine Roger Romani, professor of physics, Stanford University,

Friday, October 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 AdS/CFT with small extra dimensions Eva Silverstein, Kavli Insitute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Superstring in AdS4xCP3 Linus Wulff, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome,

Monday, October 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium All Quiet in the Outer Halo&mash;Chemical Abundances in dSphs and Outer Halo Globular Clusters Andreas Koch, research fellow, University of Leicester,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions Liza Huijse, graduate student, University of Amsterdam,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Phases of a Supersymmetric Model of Lattice Fermions Liza Huijse, University of Amsterdam,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A New High-Sensitivity Search for Muon-to-Electron Conversion at Fermilab Robert Bernstein, Fermilab,

Tuesday, October 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Annenberg 105 Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains Joe Renes, postdoctoral scholar, Technical University of Darmstadt,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium How Do Galaxies Get Their Gas? Dusan Keres, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Designing Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage Yi Cui, assistant professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,

Wednesday, October 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Radial Explorer Nikolai Makarov, professor of mathematics, Caltech ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Birth of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Gamma-ray Bursts Eliot Quataert, professor of astronomy, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, October 22
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Firestone 306 Edge Detection from Spectral Data
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Dots for Dummies Ramamurti Shankar, professor of physics, Yale University,

Friday, October 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supersymmetric Wilson Loops in N=4 SYM and Pure Spinors Anatoly Dymarsky, Institute for Advanced Study,

Monday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies Mariska Kriek, postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Measuring Sparticles with the Matrix Element Johan Alwall, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Solving PDEs on Overlapping Grids with Overture

Tuesday, October 27
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Seeking Topological Information in Knot Homologies Yi Ni, faculty member in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Death of the Biggest Stars Alexander Heger, associate professor of astronomy, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems Marko Lončar, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) X-ray Probing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in the Attosecond Limit Stephen R. Leone, professor of chemistry and physics, and director, Chemical Dynamics Beamline, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Charged Current Neutral Pion Production at MiniBooNE Robert Nelson, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Wednesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Basic Hypergeometric Biorthogonal Functions as Limits Fokko van de Bult, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 121 The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint Frank Vallentin, postdoctoral scholar, Delft University of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Spatially Resolved Dynamics of z~2forming Galaxies Reinhard Genzel, managing director, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 An Experimental Test of Non-local Realism Simon Groeblacher, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, University of Vienna,

Thursday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop? Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing, MIT,

Friday, October 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Aspects of Symmetric Product Orbifolds Shlomo Razamat, research associate in physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Alexander Westphal, postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University,