Sunday, October 2
6:00 pm - Wednesday 5:00 pm	Through the Infrared Looking Glass: A Dusty View of Galaxy and AGN Evolution See event detail for location
6:00 pm - Wednesday 5:00 pm	Through the Infrared Looking Glass: A Dusty View of Galaxy and AGN Evolution See event detail for location Through the Infrared Looking Glass: A Dusty View of Galaxy and AGN Evolution

Monday, October 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring the Gas-Cycle in High-Redshift Galaxies: A Joint Effort of Theory and Observations Michele Fumagalli, (UCSC) ,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Sharp Thresholds in Statistical Learning Andrea Montanari, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Statistics, Stanford University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs searches with diboson decays with CMS experiment Emanuele Di Marco, Caltech,

Tuesday, October 4
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxy Formation and Evolution through Metals
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Simulations of protein aggregation in the cellular milieu Joan-Emma Shea, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Explaining the Strange Electronic Properties of Cuprates, Including Superconductivity Jamil Tahir-Kheli and William A. Goddard III, Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, October 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Mapping Exoplants and Brown Dwarfs Daniel Apai, UArizona,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Intermediate Disorder for Polymers on Trees
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galaxy Formation and Evolution through Metals Lisa Kewley, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,

Thursday, October 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Game Change at the LHC Maria Spiropulu, Associate Professor of Physics, Caltech,

Friday, October 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holographic fermions David Vegh, SUNY Stony Brook,

Monday, October 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Generic wavefunction approach to two-dimensional fractional topological insulators Xiao-Liang Qi, Asssistan Professor of Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Searches for Extra Dimensions and Black Holes at CMS Greg Landsberg, Brown University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Encounters at the Edge of a Cluster: Environment's Effect on Galaxy Evolution Dennis Just, (Steward Observatory) ,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Chi-Square and Classical Exact Tests Often Wildly Misreport Significance; the Remedy Lies in Computers Rachel Ward, Assistant Professor / Harrington Fellow, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin,

Tuesday, October 11
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Type Ia Supernovae: Standardizable Candles and Crayons
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The role of quantum coherence in excitation energy transfer: New theoretical, computational and spectroscopy approaches Alan Aspuru-Guzik, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology , Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Resonant Actuation of a Model of DNA Division Wang Sang Koon, Senior Scientist, Control and Dynamical Systems , Caltech,

Wednesday, October 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Hamiltonian ODEs on a Space of Deficient Measures
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Looking at the dynamics of the inner Galaxy with Herschel - HIGGS: The Herschel Inner Galaxy Gas Survey Chris Martin, Oberlin College,
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Charge Orbits and Symmetries for Supersymmetric Black Holes Sergio Ferrara, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Turbulence, Computers and Stars David Arnett, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Antonio Rangel: "Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions?" Beckman Auditorium
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Earnest C. Watson Lecture Beckman Auditorium Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions? Antonio Rangel, Professor of Economics and Neuroscience, Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Thursday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Physics of Superconducting Calorimeters: Applications in Nuclear Safeguards Kent Irwin, Fellow, NIST, U.S. Dept. of Commerce , Professor Adjoint, Dept. of Astrophysics & Planetary Science, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Friday, October 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Tadashi Takayanagi, IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room) Novel topological phenomena in non-equilibrium systems Takuya Kitagawa, PH D. Candidate, Physics Department, Harvard University,

Monday, October 17
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium GAMA: from Little Blue Fuzzies to Massive Red Monsters and Beyond
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Minor mergers and the mass growth of massive galaxies Tomer Tal, (Yale) ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Dirac Fermions in HgTe Quantum Wells Laurens W. Molenkamp, Professor, Physics, Wuerzburg University, Germany,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Results from high energy neutrino searches from Gamma-ray Bursts with the IceCube neutrino observatory Peter Redl, Univ of Maryland,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Mathematics in Financial World: Practical Modelling and Trading Wendong Qu, Senior Vice President, PIMCO, Gang Hu, Managing Director, Credit Suisse, London,

Wednesday, October 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) William Welsh, SDSU,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Knots and Partitions
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A 1% Proper Motion Measurement for the Large Magellanic Cloud Nitya Kallivayalil, Yale,

Thursday, October 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Atoms A Microscopic View on Artificial Quantum Matter Markus Greiner, Assistant Professor of Physics, Harvard University,

Friday, October 21
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Towards non-classical mechanical states in an optomechanical whispering gallery mode resonator Warwick Bowen, Professor, Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,

Monday, October 24
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Manipulation of light by strong interactions in nanostructures Tal Ellenbogen, Dr., Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Puzzle of LINERs and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-type Galaxies Renbin Yan, NYU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Mechanisms of Biological Dynamics Determined from Studies of Virus Particle Maturation Jack Johnson, Eldon R. Strahm Endowed Chair in Structural Virology, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Transport through Andreev Bound States in a Superconductor-Quantum Dot-Graphene System Nadya Mason, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Scale without Conformal Invariance Jean-Francois Fortin, UCSD,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Inverse Problems for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators Mark Embree, Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, October 25
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 Donaldson-Thomas invariants and wall-crossing formulas Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium

Wednesday, October 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Asymptotic Properties of Extremal Polynomials
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Fiber Scrambling for Extreme Doppler Precision Julien Spronck, Yale,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Early Astrophysics Results from Planck Krzysztof Gorski, JPL,

Thursday, October 27
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 213 On the complexity of the commuting local Hamiltonian problem and tight conditions for Topological Order in such systems Lior Eldar, Hebrew University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) New topologically ordered phases of condensed matter Joel Moore, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Lecture Annenberg 213 Fast Global Convergence of Gradient Methods for High-Dimensional Statistical Recovery Sahand Negahban, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley,

Friday, October 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Tohru Eguchi, Kyoto University,

Monday, October 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Are Brightest Halo Galaxies Central Galaxies?' Ramin Skibba, Steward Observatory,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Optimization of Polynomial Roots, Eigenvalues and Pseudospectra Michael Overton, Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,