Monday, November 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Scale-Factor Cutoff Measure on the Multiverse Michael Salem, postdoctoral research associate, Institute of Cosmology, Tufts University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) A Family of Expanding Wave Solutions of the Einstein Equations that Includes the Standard Model of Cosmology

Tuesday, November 4
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium MHD in Action—from Local Spirals to DLAs Sukanya Chakrabarti, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 The Cosmological Chiral Condensate and the Cosmological Constant Stephon Alexander, assistant professor of physics, the Pennsylvania State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Towards High-Performance and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Networks Alan Willner, professor of electrical engineering, USC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The Mystery of Vus from Tau Decays Swagato Banerjee, research associate in high energy physics, University of Victoria; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,

Wednesday, November 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Extensions of Discrete Classical Orthogonal Polynomials Beyond the Orthogonality Roberto Costas, postdoctoral scholar in mathematics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment Cristiano Galbiati, assistant professor of physics, Princeton University,

Friday, November 7
8:00 am - 7:00 pm	Annual Olive Harvest Festival See event detail for location
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 The BCFT Boundary State from Open String Fields Michael Kiermaier, graduate student in theoretical physics, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Chirality and Kondo Physics in Graphene Herb Fertig, professor of physics, Indiana University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Applied String Theory: Transport Properties of Holographic Defects Matthias Wapler, graduate student, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Noble Liquids—The Revolution in Direct Dark Matter Searches Cristiano Galbiati, assistant professor of physics, Princeton University,