Monday, March 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Causality in Effective Field Theories Alejandro Jenkins, research associate at the Center for Theoretical Physics, MIT,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium—CANCELLED Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Approximation for rationally connected varieties over function fields of curves Brendan Hassett, professor of mathematics, Rice University,

Tuesday, March 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Decoherence in Josephson Qubits: Noise Phenomenological Model and Its Microscopic Origin Lara Faoro, postdoctoral fellow, department of physics and astronomy, Rutgers University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Unveiling Distant Star-Forming Galaxies through Absorption-Line Observations Hsiao-Wen Cheng, assistant professor, department of astronomy and astrophysics, University of Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar - CANCELLED Lauritsen 248 ILC Tracker Timothy K. Nelson, research scientist, Linear Collider Detector, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Gaussianity of LISA's Confusion Background from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals Etienne Racine, postdoctoral scholar in theoretical astrophysics, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Taussky-Todd Lecture Gersgorin and His Circles Richard Varga, professor of mathematical sciences, Kent State University,

Wednesday, March 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Phase Transitions in Quantum-Spin Systems at Positive Temperatures Marek Biskup, associate professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering? David H. Weinberg, professor of astronomy, Ohio State University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Global Climate Change: John Seinfeld Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, March 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Jasons Ann Finkbeiner, visiting associate professor, Johns Hopkins University,

Friday, March 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Reconstructing 1/2 BPS Geometries from N = 4 SYM Samuel Vazquez, department of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Renormalizable Non-metric Gravity? Kirill Krasnov, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library The Race to Detect Dark Matter with Noble Liquids, and the Status of XENON10 Thomas Shutt, associate professor of physics, Case Western Reserve University,