Tuesday, May 1
10:30 am - 11:30 am	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Microstrip Reflectarrays for Large-Aperture Interferometric Radars Sembiam Rengarajan, CSU Northridge/JPL,
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	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Digitally enhanced interferometry Danielle Wucenich, ANU,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Graphene Mechanical Resonators and Applications Changyao Chen, Columbia University,

Wednesday, May 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Formation of Rocky Planets, including a few remarkable results from WISE Ben Zuckerman, UCLA,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Schrodinger Operators With Decaying Oscillatory Potentials
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Around Cool Stars John Johnson, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission Dr. Carol Raymond, Deputy Principal Investigator of the NASA Dawn Mission, JPL/Caltech,

Thursday, May 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter? Jason Alicea, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine,

Friday, May 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 New SCFTs from M5-branes Nikolay Bobev, Simons Center, SUNY Stony Brook,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables Christopher Rogan, Caltech,

Monday, May 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Heavy Ions at the LHC Bolek Wyslouch, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Exploring the Dark Side of Galaxies Chris Fassnacht, UC Davis,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Statistics and Computation in the Age of Massive Data Michael Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor, EECS & Statistics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, May 8
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	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Applications of Surface Plasmons Polaritons in Opto-electronics & in Early Health Diagnosis Alain Dereux, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne,

Wednesday, May 9
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) How To Use Cloud Computing To Do Astronomy Bruce Berriman, IPAC, Ewa Deelman, Computer Science, USC ,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Boundary Data Maps and a Multi-dimensional Variant of the Jost and Pais Formula
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture Motives associated to configuration spaces, fundamental groups, . . . Spencer Bloch, R. M. Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor, Mathematics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Herschel view on star formation: from local star forming regions to the most distant galaxies Laurent Vigroux, IAP Director/Kingsley Visitor,

Thursday, May 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Diving For Treasure in Complex Data: From Roman Urns to Alzheimer's Marvin Weinstein, Theoretical Physicist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford,

Friday, May 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holograms of 3-dimensional gravity Daniel Grumiller, TU Vienna,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Physics Searches at the LHC with Razor Variables Christopher Rogan, Caltech,

Monday, May 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 How the CMB challenges cosmology's standard model Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts Dave Tsang, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Implicit Sampling, with Applications to Data Assimilation Alexandre Chorin, Professor, Mathematics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, May 15
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	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Search for Higgs boson decaying to WW and ZZ at CMS Si Xie, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Ab initio Modeling of CO2 Reduction and CO2 Capture Laura Gagliardi, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,

Wednesday, May 16
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Conformal Mappings and Spectral Theory
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies: the HiZELS/H-alpha view David Sobral, Leiden Observatory,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Beverly J. McKeon: "Taming Turbulence" Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material Paul Rothemund, Senior Research Associate, Caltech,

Friday, May 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The cusp anomalous dimension at three loops and beyond Johannes Henn, IAS,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Metal-filled Photonic Crystal Fibers: Plasmonics and Polarizers Patrick Uebel, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen,

Saturday, May 19
9:30 am - 5:00 pm	Southern Califorina Number Theory Day 2012 Southern Califorina Number Theory Day 2012

Sunday, May 20
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm	See a Solar Eclipse! Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Monday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Detecting Small Planets Orbiting Small Stars Using Small Telescopes and GPS Cullen Blake, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Double Parton Scattering Aneesh Manohar, UC San Diego,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Regularization of Positive Definite Matrices: Connections Between Algebra, Graph Theory and Statistics Bala Rajaratnam, Statistics, Stanford University,

Tuesday, May 22
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	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Nanobolometers for Photon Detection Boris Karasik, Dr., JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Promoting Chemistry With External Force: Covalent Mechanochemistry with First Principles Molecular Dynamics on Graphical Processing Units Todd J. Martinez, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of S.L.A.C. Photon Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Wednesday, May 23
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On Calderon's Inverse Problem
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Early Results from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) Marc Postman, STScI,

Thursday, May 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) From Black Holes to Biological Membranes: Utilizing the Local Nature of Physical Laws to Simplify Complex Problems Ira Rothstein, Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University,

Friday, May 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TALK CANCELLED Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei Günther Hasinger, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Design of an optomechanical accelerometer Alex Krause, Graduate Student, Applied Physics, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 29
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Quantum control of diamond defects for quantum information and bio-imaging Peter Maurer, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Harvard University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium "Galaxy Evolution at Large N and Low SNR"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Stardust to Planetesimals Paola Pinilla, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Ugly, the Soft, and the Elastic: Short Stories on Particle Self-Assembly Angelo Cacciuto, Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Lasers and Anti-lasers A. Douglas Stone, Applied Physics, Yale University,

Wednesday, May 30
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral theory of orthogonal polynomials: An overview
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Visiting Graduate Student Fellows Talks
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Radiative-transfer Modeling of Supernova Spectra and Light Curves. Application to Massive-star Explosions. Luc Dessart, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France,