Wednesday, January 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium What the #*!$ is dark matter? One astrophysicist's perspective Annika Peter, UC Irvine,

Thursday, January 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory) S. R. Kulkarni, Principal Investigator, Palomar Transient Factory, Director, Caltech Optical Observatories, Caltech,

Friday, January 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 3-Manifolds, 3d SCFT's, and 3d Indices Tudor Dimofte, Institute for Advanced Study,

Monday, January 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Designing Biological Systems for Health and Sustainability Pamela Silver, Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Physical Origin of Cool Gas in Massive Halos Jean-Rene Gauthier, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 MFV SUSY: A Natural Alternative to R-parity Csaba Csaki, Cornell,

Tuesday, January 10
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 New theory of difference hypergeometric and Whittaker functions Ivan Cherednik, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Wednesday, January 11
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Data-Driven Computational Approach to Understand Cancer Progression and Drug Resistance Dr. Peng Jiang, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University,

Thursday, January 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Multiverse of String Theory, The Measure Problem, And The Cosmological Constant Raphael Bousso, Professor, Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Probing Inter-Atomic Interactions in a 87Sr Optical Lattice Clock via Precision Spectroscopy Michael Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Friday, January 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, January 17
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale Mark L. Brongersma, Associate Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Kaitlin Kratter, CfA,

Wednesday, January 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A Special Class of Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) The Modeling of the Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation Alberto Dominguez, UC Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Emission Mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts Andrei Beloborodov, Columbia University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	James P. Eisenstein: "Electrons in Flatland" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, January 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Quantum Networks of Trapped Atomic Ions Chris Monroe, Bice Zorn Professor of Physics, University of Maryland,

Friday, January 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Hiroyuki Fuji, Nagoya University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Assessing the impact of disorder on the ν=5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect Michael J. Manfra, Professor, Department of Physics, Purdue University,

Monday, January 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Dynamics of mobile impurities in 1D condensates Alex Kamenev, Professor , Department of Physics, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Probing reionization and large-scale structure with the South Pole Telescope Christian Reichardt, Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Constraints on dark matter models from a Fermi-LAT search for cosmic-ray electrons from the Sun Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Finding structure with randomness: Probabilistic algorithms for constructing low-rank matrix decompositions Joel Tropp, Assistant Professor, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Tuesday, January 24
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Neutrino Physics from MiniBooNE Gerry Garvey, Los Alamos,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Dynamics of Liquids and Interfaces Studied with Ultrafast 2D IR Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy Michael D. Fayer, David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, January 25
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres Mark Swain, JPL,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar A New Look at Some Old Problems
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington,

Thursday, January 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Cosmic rays, climate and the CERN CLOUD experiment Jasper Kirkby, CERN,

Monday, January 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Evidence for Dibosons with Decays to Heavy Quarks: A Validation of Low Mass Higgs Searches at D0 Joe Haley, Northeastern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice Jonathan Simon, Dr., Physics Department, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Yuichi Matsuda, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Vector Diffusion Maps and the Connection Laplacian Amit Singer, Mathematics, Princeton University,

Tuesday, January 31
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Surprises in ionic driven assembly of membranes Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Lawyer Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science, Northwestern University,