Friday, October 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Black Hole/Qubit Correspondence William Rubens, graduate student in theoretical physics, Imperial College,

Monday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Hall Transitions in Trapped Cold Atom Systems Kun Yang, professor of physics, Florida State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Formation of Retrograde Planetary Orbits Matthew Payne, postdoctoral fellow in astronomy, University of Florida,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 COUPP and CoGeNT Juan Collar, KICP, the University of Chicago,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Sweeping Preconditioners for the Helmholtz Equation Lexing Ying, associated professor of mathematics, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Public Lecture Beckman Auditorium Many Suns, Many Worlds: The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets Eric Ford, professor of astronomy, University of Florida, Jason Wright, assistant professor of astronomy, Pennsylvania State University, Natalie Batalha, associate professor of physics and astronomy, San Jose State University, Mark Swain, research scientist, NASA and JPL,

Tuesday, October 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Entanglement Spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall States and Quantum Spin Chains Ronny Thomale, postdoctoral scholar, Princeton University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Quest for SFR Measurements from the UV to the Infrared Daniela Calzetti, University of Massachusetts,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale Mark Brongersma, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,

Wednesday, October 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Ground State Alternative for Schrodinger Operators Kyril Tintarev, professor of mathematics, Uppsala University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) JWST: Not Just a High Redshift Machine! Marcia Rieke, professor of astronomy, University of Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium CRTS: An Open Optical Transient Survey Andrew Drake, computational scientist, Caltech,

Thursday, October 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Extraordinary Advances on Photoemission Experiments Zhi-Xun Shen, professor of physics, applied physics, and SSRL, Stanford University,

Friday, October 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Tree Amplitudes in the Pure Spinor Formalism Oliver Schlotterer, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Silicon and Oxygen Abundances in Planet-host stars Erik Brugamyer, UTexas,

Monday, October 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution Ji-hoon Kim, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Quantum Quenches in Bulk and Impurity Systems Stefan Kehrein, professor of theoretical physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen ,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Scheduling for the Tail: Robustness versus Optimality Adam Wierman, assistant professor of computer science, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 12
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Faint Ly-alpha Emitters: Galaxy Building Blocks and the Engines of Reionization Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar—postponed Lauritsen 469 Wade Fisher, assistant professor of high energy physics, Michigan State University,

Wednesday, October 13
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar The Spectrum of Skew-Shift Schrodinger Operators Contains Intervals Helge Krueger, Simons Foundation Fellow, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) IPAC's Participation in the VAO Bruce Berriman, IPAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae Lars Bildsten, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, October 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Search for Complex Order Parameter Symmetry in Unconventional Superconductors Dale Van Harlingen, professor of physics, Materials Research Laboratory and the NSF Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity, University of Illinois,

Friday, October 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chiral Operators on the One Instanton Moduli Space Noppadol Mekareeya, Imperial College,

Monday, October 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dynamics of NGC 205 and M32, Andromeda's Tidally Distorted Satellites Kristen Howley, UC San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Topic to be announced. Walter Hofstetter, Goethe University, Frankfurt,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Secondary Photons and Neutrinos from Distant Blazars and the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields Warren Essey, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Sampling in Spaces of Bandlimited Functions and Variational Splines on Combinatorial Graphs Misha Pesenson, Research Scientist in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech, Isaac Z. Pesenson, Mathematics, Temple University,

Tuesday, October 19
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A Direct Measurement of the Intergalactic Medium Opacity to H I Ionizing Photons Jason X Prochaska, Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Micro- and Nano-structured Semiconductor Devices on Amorphous Substrates for Low-cost Energy Conversion, Sensing and Displays M. Saif Islam, professor of electrical and computer engineering, UC Davis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Accelerating Molecular Dynamics of Rare Events Graeme Henkelman, associate professor of chemistry, the University of Texas at Austin,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Gravitational Waves from First Order Phase Transitions Chiara Caprini, Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA,

Wednesday, October 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) The Growth of Dead Galaxies in Clusters over Most of Cosmic Time Greg Rudnick, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, University of Kansas,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Possible Explanation for Puzzling Properties of X-ray Bursts M. Coleman Miller, University of Maryland,

Thursday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) High-Temperature Superconductivity: Emergent Phases, Broken Symmetries, and the Power Grid Laura H. Greene, professor of physics, Center for Emergent Superconductivity, Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology, University of Illinois,

Friday, October 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Singular Monopoles and Gauge Theories with Impurity Walls Sergey Cherkis, Trinity College, Dublin,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Point Contact Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Andreev Reflection, Multiband Superconductivity, and Magnetism Laura H. Greene, professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Monday, October 25
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Memorial Service for Ralph Kavanagh Athenaeum
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Topological Transitions in Dissipative Quantum Transport Mark Rudner, postdoctoral scholar in condensed matter theory, Harvard University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Convex Duality in Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization Marc Teboulle, professor of mathematical sciences, Tel-Aviv University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 KATRIN and Project 8 Benjamin Monreal, assistant professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Tuesday, October 26
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Small Gaps, Localization, and the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm David Gossett, graduate student in quantum information science, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Topic and speaker to be announced.

Wednesday, October 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Exoplanets and Planet Formation in the Kepler Era Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Firestone 308 Networked Target Tracking Architectures Randy Paffenroth, program director, Numerica Corporation,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Lensing Map . . . A Redshift Survey Margaret Geller, Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Jean-Philippe Avouac: Rising Mountains and Sinking Oceans: Earthquakes That Shape the Earth Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Disk Formation in Protoplanetary Systems: Magnetic Braking and Non-ideal MHD Ruben Krasnopolsky, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmological Intimations of Infinity Anthony Aguirre, associate professor of physics, UC Santa Cruz,

Friday, October 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 S duality, Superconformal Index and 2d Topological Field Theory Abhijit Gadde, graduate student in physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Molecular Engineering of Reporters of Protein Trafficking and Interactions, and Application to the Study of Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Development Alice Y. Ting, associate professor of chemistry, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Optomechanics Oskar Painter, associate professor of applied physics, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Annual Meeting of the California-Nevada Section of the American Physical Society Beckman Auditorium The Warped Side of the Universe