Monday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Reddest Quasars: A Transitional Phase in Quasar/Galaxy Co-Evolution Eilat Glikman, Yale,

Tuesday, October 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological order with tensor networks on infinite cylinders: an explicit wavefunction for fractionalized quasi-particle excitations Guifre Vidal, Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Future of the Sloan Digital Sky Survery Michael Blanton, Prof., New York University,

Wednesday, October 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Have We Converged on an Understanding of the Dense Matter Equation of State? James Lattimer, SUNY/Caltech Kingsley Visitor,

Thursday, October 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors Ian Fisher, Stanford University,

Friday, October 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 RG Limit Cycles Andy Stergiou, UC San Diego,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Velocity and feedback enhance 21-cm signal from first stars at z ~ 20 Anastasia Fialkov, Tel Aviv University,

Monday, October 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Michael Salem, Stanford,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Constraints on protoplanetary disk turbulence from radiative transfer models Daniel Szomoru, Leiden,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Wall Turbulence: A Systems Approach Beverley McKeon, Professor of Aeronautics, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT), Caltech,

Tuesday, October 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) A Molecule to Detect and Perturb the Confinement of Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots Emily A. Weiss, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Empirical Laws of Galactic Rotation Stacy McGaugh, University of Maryland,

Wednesday, October 10
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) TBA
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies Charlie Conroy, UCSC,

Thursday, October 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change and its Human Origins Richard Muller, UC Berkeley,

Friday, October 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gromov-Witten invariants from the S^2 partition function Vijay Kumar, KITP, UC Santa Barbara,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Topic to be Announced Tim Linden, U.C. Santa Cruz,

Monday, October 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The structural evolution of galaxies between z=0 and z=2.5 Daniel Szomoru, Leiden,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Universality and Inflation Sean Downes, Texas A&M,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Computational Complexity of Convex Bodies Alexander Barvinok, Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, October 16
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Time-resolved Molecular Imaging with a Femtosecond Hard X-ray Laser John C.H. Spence, Regents' Professor, Department of Physics, Arizona State University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 A classical leash for a quantum tiger: Key distribution with minimal assumptions Ben Reichardt, Professor, Electrical Engineering , University of Southern California,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Bulk and Thin Film Electrical Contacts, RF Heating and Field Enhancement Y.Y. Lau, Professor, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be Announced Sara Ellison, Prof., University of Victoria, Sara Ellison,

Wednesday, October 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Black Hole Spin, Accretion, and Jets Ramesh Narayan, Harvard,

Thursday, October 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Neural computations in the retina Markus Meister, Harvard University,

Friday, October 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Chris Beem, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 An Experiment to Demonstrate an alpha-omega Dynamo in the Accretion Disk leading to Galaxy and MBH formation Stirling Colgate, Los Alamos National Lab,

Monday, October 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Special High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Geometry as Graviton Bose-Einstein Condensate Georgi Dvali, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Solid Inflation: Breaking space not time Solomon Endlich, Columbia,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Galaxy quenching and the remarkable stability of the velocity dispersion function since z~1.5 Rachel Bezanson, Yale,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Recent Advances in the Theory of Linear Programming Jesús De Loera, Professor, Mathematics, UC Davis,

Tuesday, October 23
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Lauritsen 469 Quantum recursions and hyperideal polyhedra Roland van der Veen, TBA, Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Uber-massive black holes Remco van den Bosch, MPIA,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Efficient distributed quantum computing Steve Brierley, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Bristol,

Wednesday, October 24
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Under Our Very Noses: A Surprise from the Asteroid Belt David Jewitt, UCLA,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran: Engineering with Impact Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, October 25
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Time Domain Forum Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Lynne Hillenbrand, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Topological Insulators: Opportunities, Materials and Challenges Kang L. Wang, UCLA,

Friday, October 26
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gauge Theory angle on Integrability Samson Shastavili, Trinity College Dublin,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 F Theory vs Type IIB Orientifolds: Some global aspects Raffaele Savelli, MPI Munich,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Dynamical Capture Compact Binary Mergers William East, Princeton,

Monday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Optimal Mass Configurations for Lensing High-Redshift Galaxies (and how to find them in the SDSS!) Kenneth Wong, Arizona,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Topic to be Announced Gaspar Bakos, Prof., Princeton Univ.,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Observation of a new boson with a mass near 125 GeV Alex Mott, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Coding for Distributed Storage Alex Dimakis, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, USC,

Tuesday, October 30
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Topological stabilizer codes with a power law energy barrier via welding Kamil Michnicki, Graduate student, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Small-molecule Interrogation of Kinase Signaling and Membrane Protein Biogenesis Jack Taunton, Associate Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Some Like it Hot: What Observations Can Tell Us About Solar Coronal Heating Joan Schmelz, University of Memphis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill 370 Torsion-bar Antenna for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection Ayaka Shoda, University of Tokyo,
4:30 pm - 7:00 pm	CubeSat: An Unlikely Success Story Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Jordi Puig-Suari, Professor , Professor of PolySat & CubeSat Programs, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo,

Wednesday, October 31
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) TBA Ruobing Dong, Princeton,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planetary System Architectures from Kepler Daniel Fabrycky, University of Chicago,