Monday, November 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Characterizing the Chemistry of the Milky Way Stellar Halo Ian Roederer, graduate student in astronomy, University of Texas,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Tunneling Spectral Dip: A Universal Feature of High TC Superconductors John Zasadzinski, professor of physical sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 CP Violation for the Heaven and Earth—A KM Saga George W.S. Hou, National Taiwan University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Domain Decomposition Methods for High-Contrast Multiscale Flow Problems

Tuesday, November 17
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Faster Quantum Algorithm for Evaluating Game Trees Ben Reichardt, Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Gas-phase Ion/Ion Reactions: Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer, and Bio-conjugation Scott A. McLuckey, professor of chemistry, Purdue University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium GW Detector Calibration Peter Kalmus, postdoctoral scholar in physics, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Annenberg 213 Online Algorithms with No Regret Guarantees

Wednesday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Ground States of Supersymmetric Matrix Models Douglas Lundholm, graduate student in mathematics, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Mapping the Milky Way: From SDSS and 2MASS to LSST and Gaia Željko Iveziæ, University of Washington,

Thursday, November 19
8:30 am - 5:15 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Symposium Series Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
8:30 am - 5:15 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Challenging the Paradigm: The Legacy of Galileo
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Metallicities and Abundance Ratios in the Galactic Bulge Based on Microlensed Dwarf Stars Thomas Bensby, European Southern Observatory, Chile,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Topological Insulators : The Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects without Magnetic Field M. Zahid Hasan, professor of physics, Princeton University,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Special Symposium: "The Human and Scientific Tale of Galileo" Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Friday, November 20
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography of Charged Dilaton Black Holes Shamit Kachru, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Annenberg 105 Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons Lukas Novotny, professor of optics, biomedical engineering, and physics, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester,