Monday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Physics with Cold Atoms Asimina Arvanitaki, graduate student in theoretical physics, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Probing the Decline of Star Formation Since z=1 Jason Melbourne, postdoctoral scholar in physics, mathematics and astronomy, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Sensitivity Analysis, Model Reduction, and Circadian Oscillators

Tuesday, November 6
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 The Power of Quantum Systems on a Line Sandy Irani, professor of information and computer science, UC Irvine,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxy Formation Feedback and the Early Chemical Enrichment of Intergalactic Matter Rob Simcoe, assistant professor of physics, MIT,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Playing Extreme Sports with Single Biological Molecules Taekjip Ha, associate professor of physics, The University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, November 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Fun and Games with the CD Kernel Barry Simon, International Business Machines Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Caltech,
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Calabi-Yau Metrics and the Solutions of the Laplacian Volker Braun, postdoctoral scholar in physics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 The Optical Antenna: A Versatile Tool for Nanophotonics Ken Crozier, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) From Massive Cores to Massive Stars Mark Krumholz, Hubble Fellow in astrophysics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Isaac Newton and the Origins of Civilization: Jed Z. Buchwald Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Noble Travails: XENON10, LUX and Other Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter Rick Gaitskell, associate professor of physics and head of the particle astrophysics group, Brown University,

Friday, November 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Exploring Holographic Approaches to QCD Umut Gursoy, École Polytechnique,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Rank Minimization over Affine Sets