Thursday, April 1
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Metamaterial Hyperlenses and Spin-wave Resonators Fabricated by Rolled-up Nanotech Stefan Mendach, professor of physics, University of Hamburg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Optical Systems Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Science,

Friday, April 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Towards a Construction of Holographic Superconductors Wen-Yu Wen, visitor in physics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Firestone 306 Hydrodynamic Limits for the Boltzmann Equations

Monday, April 5
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Landau-Zener Problem in Many Body Systems: Applications to Cold Atoms, Cavity QED and Superconductivity Victor Gurarie, professor of physics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 A Few Interesting Trees in the WIMP Forest Tim Tait, theoretical high energy physicist, UC Irvine,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Variational and Geometric Methods in Image Processing and Analysis

Tuesday, April 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Achieving Freely Falling Test Masses in LISA and LISA Pathfinder Bill Weber, University of Trento, Italy,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Multiscale Modeling of Complex Biological Systems; Exploring Problematic Dynamical Proposals and Quantifying Enzyme Catalysis Arieh Warshel, professor of chemistry, USC,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Mesoscopic Glassy Orders in a Manganite Thin Film Observed by Microwave Imaging Keji Lai, postdoctoral scholar in applied physics, Stanford University,

Wednesday, April 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Orthogonal Polynomials with Recursion Coefficients of Generalized Bounded Variation Milivoje Lukic, graduate student in PMA, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Stellar Initial Mass Function and the Early Stages of Star and Brown Dwarf Evolution Gilles Chabrier, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Brian Wernicke: The Ancient California River and How it Carved Grand Canyon in the Age of T. Rex Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, April 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Simulations of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves Saul Teukolsky, professor of physics and astronomy, Cornell University,

Friday, April 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Threshold Corrections for Local String Models Joseph Conlon, University of Oxford,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Two-dimensional Electron Liquid State at Oxide Interfaces Jochen Mannhart, professor of physics, University of Augsburg, Germany ,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics Firestone 306 Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems

Monday, April 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture - CANCELED Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Xiaowei Zhuang, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and professor of physics, Harvard University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Oracle Inequalities for Inverse Problems
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Disentangling Dark Matter Dynamics Mariangela Lisanti, graduate student in theoretical physics, Stanford University,

Tuesday, April 13
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological Quantum Computers Work with a Quarter of Their Bits Missing Tom Stace, postdoctoral research fellow, University of Queensland,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Exploring the Time Domain with the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey George Djorgovski, professor of astronomy, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand Jeremy Levy, professor of physics, University of Pittsburgh,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) I. Ferromagnetism by Design: Understanding Bound Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots II. TDDFT Electronic Dynamics: Lifetimes of Excited States on Surfaces Xiaosong Li, assistant professor of chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Composite Inelastic Dark Matter Jay Wacker, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15 pm - 6:15 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Marching to a Different Drummer David Mumford, professor emeritus, Brown University,

Wednesday, April 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Best Rational Approximation of the Exponential Function on the Semiaxis and Saddle-Points for the Energy Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Almeria, Spain,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium White Dwarf Binaries, Mergers, and Explosions Marten van Kerkwijk, professor of astronomy, University of Toronto,

Thursday, April 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Information Processing and Quantum Metrology with Atomic Ensembles Eugene Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,

Friday, April 16
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Strings at the TeV Scale Dieter Luest, chair for mathematical physics, LMU-München, and director, Max-Planck-Institute for Physics,

Monday, April 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Time Dependent Radiative Transfer in SNe Atmosphere and Cosmic Recombination Epoch: Effect on Spectra and Transition Probabilities in a True Multilevel Framework Soma De, graduate student in physics and astronomy, University of Oklahoma,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar—cancelled Lauritsen 469 Oscillons in Scalar and Gauge Field Theories: Theory and Applications in Particle Physics and Cosmology Marcelo Gleiser, professor of natural philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy, Dartmouth College,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Complex Huygens Principles as Efficient Representations of Wave Fields

Tuesday, April 20
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Cluster Expansions and the Stability of Topological Phases Israel Klich, assistant professor of physics, University of Virginia,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium An Overview of Results from 18 Months of Data Taking by the Large Area Telescope on Fermi Troy Porter, Institute for Particle Physics, UC Santa Cruz ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium An Idiosyncratic History of Technical Developments Leading to LIGO Stan Whitcomb, LIGO chief scientist, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 21
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Lyapunov Exponents and Oseledets's Basis for Products of Independent Non-identically Distributed Matrices Ilya Goldsheid, professor of mathematics, Queen Mary, University of London,
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Novel Electro-Magnetic Phenomena: One-way-waveguides and Wireless Power Transfer Marin Soljacic, professor of physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing the Jet Collimation Region in M87 with VLBA and TeV Observations Craig Walker, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,

Thursday, April 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Illuminating Strongly Coupled Field Theories with Black Holes Shamit Kachru, permanent member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, visiting professor, UC Santa Barbara, and professor of physics (on leave), Stanford University,

Friday, April 23
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Y-system for Scattering Amplitudes Amit Sever, Perimeter Institute,

Monday, April 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cosmic Anomalies: A Skeptical Evaluation Edward L. Wright, professor of astronomy, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Odd-parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to Cu_xBi_2Se_3 Erez Berg, postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter physics, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Red but Not Dead!—Molecular Gas in Early-type Galaxies Timothy Davis, graduate student in astrophysics, Oxford University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Compressed Sensing in Infinite Dimensions

Tuesday, April 27
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Numerical Algorithms for Simulating Interacting Fermionic Lattice Systems Christina Kraus, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be announced. Hilke Schlichting, postdoctoral fellow in theoretical astrophysics, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60 Benjamin J. McCall, assistant professor of chemistry and astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, April 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On Convergence to SLE_6 Helen (Guo-Ying) Lei, graduate student in mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Magnetar Oscillations Yuri Levin, Leiden Observatory,

Thursday, April 29
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium—CANCELED Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium CANCELED
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis David A. Tirrell, Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor and professor of chemistry and chemical engineering, Caltech,

Friday, April 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Instanton Effects in F-theory Ralph Blumenhagen, Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics,