Monday, October 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Deep View on the Early Universe: Extreme Makeovers & Overweight Galaxies Mariska Kriek, postdoctoral fellow in astrophysical sciences, Princeton University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Measuring Sparticles with the Matrix Element Johan Alwall, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Solving PDEs on Overlapping Grids with Overture

Tuesday, October 27
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Seeking Topological Information in Knot Homologies Yi Ni, faculty member in Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Death of the Biggest Stars Alexander Heger, associate professor of astronomy, University of Minnesota,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Optical Nanostructures for Advanced Communication Systems Marko Lončar, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) X-ray Probing of Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in the Attosecond Limit Stephen R. Leone, professor of chemistry and physics, and director, Chemical Dynamics Beamline, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 A Measurement of Neutrino Induced Charged Current Neutral Pion Production at MiniBooNE Robert Nelson, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Wednesday, October 28
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Basic Hypergeometric Biorthogonal Functions as Limits Fokko van de Bult, Harry Bateman Research Instructor in mathematics, Caltech,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 121 The Positive Semidefinite Grothendieck Problem with Rank Constraint Frank Vallentin, postdoctoral scholar, Delft University of Technology,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Spatially Resolved Dynamics of z~2forming Galaxies Reinhard Genzel, managing director, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 An Experimental Test of Non-local Realism Simon Groeblacher, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, University of Vienna,

Thursday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist . . . Cop? Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing, MIT,

Friday, October 30
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Aspects of Symmetric Product Orbifolds Shlomo Razamat, research associate in physics, SUNY Stony Brook,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Alexander Westphal, postdoctoral scholar, Stanford University,