Monday, May 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes Linda Strubbe, graduate student in astronomy, UC Berkeley,
4:10 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Measurement of the Electronic Compressibility of Bilayer Graphene Erik Henriksen, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Philip Schuster, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Topic to be announced.

Wednesday, May 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Inverse Resonance Problem for CMV Operators Maxim Zinchenko, assistant professor of mathematics, Western Michigan University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Steele 125 CMOS Nanowire Biosensor Systems Mark Reed, professor of engineering and applied science, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring the Infrared Universe Ned Wright, professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Chiara Daraio: From Newton's Cradle to New Materials Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Entropy in Quantum Information Theory and Condensed Matter Physics Matthew Hastings, senior research scientist, Microsoft Research, Station Q, Santa Barbara ,

Friday, May 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Fermi Seas from Black Hole Ergospheres Tom Hartman, graduate student in physics, Harvard University,

Monday, May 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Topic to be announced. Leonidas Moustakas, research scientist, JPL,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Bestest Little Higgs Daniel Stolarski, graduate student in physics, UC Berkeley,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Topic to be announced.

Tuesday, May 11
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Experimental Investigation of an Eight Qubit Unit Cell in a Superconducting Optimization Processor Richard Harris, senior experimental physicist, D-Wave Systems,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Simulations of Matter at Extreme and Ambient Conditions Julius T. Su, Ph.D., Member of the Staff, Materials and Process Simulation Center, Beckman Institute, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar See event detail for location Cauchy-Characteristic Waveform Extraction from Binary Black-Hole Inspiral and Merger Simulations Christian Reisswig, postdoctoral scholar in astrophysics, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Infinite Gap Case Jacob S. Christiansen, research fellow in mathematical sciences, University of Copenhagen,
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Distinguishing Classical from Quantum Annealing in a Multi-qubit System Mohammad Amin, head theorist, D-Wave Systems,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gas and Galaxy Evolution in the Local Universe Jacqueline van Gorkom, professor of astronomy, Columbia University,

Thursday, May 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Soft Directions in Biology: What Can We Learn About from Networks? Sharad Ramanathan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology and of applied physics, Harvard University,

Friday, May 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supercurrents and Supergravity Zohar Komargodski, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Superconductivity and Quantum Hall States on the Surface of a Topological Insulator Ashvin Vishwanath, associate professor of physics, UC Berkeley,

Monday, May 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Randomness and Predictability of Cellular Response in Bacteria Philippe Cluzel, professor of applied physics and professor of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard Unversity,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Robo-AO: Robotic Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics on the Palomar 60-inch in 2011 Nicholas Law, University of Toronto, Christoph Baranec, Caltech,
4:10 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Fun on the Honeycomb Lattice: Luttinger Liquids and Frustrated Magnetism Arun Paramekanti, assistant professor of physics, University of Toronto,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Discrete Stochastic Simulation of Spatially Inhomogeneous Biochemical Systems
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Observing the Dimensionality of Our Parent Vacuum Peter Graham, postdoctoral scholar in physics, Stanford University,

Tuesday, May 18
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Hidden Quadratic Polynomials and Dihedral Subgroups Pawel Wocjan, assistant professor of computer science, University of Central Florida,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way's Nuclear Stellar Cluster Rainer Schodel, research fellow, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia—CSIC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Microfluidic Bioseparations and Rapid Directed Evolution of Molecules Hyongsok (Tom) Soh, associate professor of mechanical engineering, UC Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, May 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization: Galaxy Buildup in the First Gyr Garth Illingworth, Lick Observatory,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Thanos Siapas: Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory Formation Beckman Auditorium

Friday, May 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic Baryons Piljin Yi, Korean Institute for Advanced Study,

Monday, May 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium On the X-ray variability of Type 1, radio-quiet Seyferts Iosif Papadakis, University of Crete,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LHC and CMS Marat Gataullin, assistant scientist in high energy physics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Spectral FFT-based Integral and Differential PDE Solvers for General Domains

Tuesday, May 25
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum Memories Based on Solid State Atomic Ensembles Hugues de Riedmatten, senior researcher in physics, University of Geneva,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Evolution of AGN in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies Paul Martini, assistant professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Transients in the Local Universe Mansi Kasliwal, graduate student in astronomy, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Critical Lieb-Thirring Bounds in Gaps and the Generalized Nevai Conjecture for Finite Gap Jacobi Matrices
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars Anna Frebel, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Titan: A Strange Yet Familiar New World Oded Ahronson, associate professor of planetary science, Caltech,

Thursday, May 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Biophysics of Hearing: Mechanical Detection by Inner Ear Hair Cells Dolores Bozovic, assistant professor of physics, UCLA,