Monday, May 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Topic to be announced. Colette Salyk, graduate student, Geology and Planetary Sciences, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Non-Evanescent Physics of Evanescent Waves: Polaritonic Effects from Nanotube Transistors to NEMS Slava V. Rotkin, professor of physics, Lehigh University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Spontaneous R-parity Violation In Supersymmetry Pavel Fileviez Perez, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Convex Algebraic Geometry

Tuesday, May 19
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Topic to be announced. Matthew Elliott, postdoctoral scholar in physics, University of Southern Indiana,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies at High Redshift Casey Papovich, observational astronomer and astrophysicist, Texas A&M University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) The Properties and Potential Applications of Gold Nanoparticles Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Regents Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and director, Laser Dynamics Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 The CERN Axion Solar Telescope Michael Pivovaroff, physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Information Inequalities

Wednesday, May 20
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar On the Infinite Gap Case Jacob S. Christiansen, research fellow in mathematical sciences, University of Copenhagen,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Massive Galaxy and Black Hole Formation Back to within 1 Billion Years after the Big Bang Dominik A. Riechers, postdoctoral scholar in astronomy, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Niles Pierce: In Pursuit of Programmable Molecular Technologies Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, May 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Nano-opto-mechanics: Utilizing Light Forces within Guided-Wave Nanostructures Oskar Painter, associate professor of applied physics, Caltech,

Friday, May 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Rapid Scale Dependent CFT Thermalization from Gravity Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar & GALCIT Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond Panayotis Kevrekidis, associate professor of mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library Testing the Origin of Neutrino Masses at the LHC Pavel Fileviez Perez, research associate in physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,