Monday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Inclusive Path to Vub Bjorn Lange, senior postdoctoral associate in nuclear science, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Computing Shadow Boundary and Optimizing Visibility

Tuesday, October 31
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum vs. Classical One-Way Communication Complexity Iordanis Kerenidis, researcher, CNRS-University of Paris,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium An Image Motion Compensation System for the MODS Spectrograph Jennifer Marshall, Carnegie Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope: Development Status and Science Objectives Peter F. Michelson, professor of physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Status of LIGO's Fifth Science Run Shourov Chatterji, postdoctoral scholar, LIGO Laboratory, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Electronic Structure Methods for Strong Correlations: How Diradicaloid Can a Stable Singlet Diradical Be? Martin P. Head-Gordon, professor of chemistry, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, November 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Multi-Hamiltonian Structures for the Toda Lattice and the Ablowitz-Ladik System Irina Nenciu, Courant Instructor of Mathematics, Courant Institute,
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the Taurus and Upper Scorpius Associations Catherine Slesnick, graduate student in astronomy, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Supersymmetric Renormalization Prescription and Finitness in N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills Theory Laurent Baulieu, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) The Inner Workings of Early-Type Galaxies: Cores, Nuclei, and Supermassive Black Holes Laura Ferrarese, senior research officer, NRC/HIA,

Thursday, November 2
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) "If There Is Magic on the Planet, It Is Contained in Water"*: A New View on the Balance of Forces Controlling Micellar Morphologies of Ionic Surfactants (*Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey, 1957) Professor Laurence S. Romsted, department of chemistry and chemical biology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Circuit QED: Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing on a Superconducting Chip Rob Schoelkopf, professor of applied physics and physics, Yale University,

Friday, November 3
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Kristian Kennaway, postdoctoral fellow in physics, University of Toronto,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Magnetically Induced Electronic States in Two-Dimensional Superconductors Jongsoo Yoon, assistant professor of physics, University of Virginia,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Advances in Metric Embedding Theory
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Topic to be announced. Joe Carlson, theoretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,