Monday, December 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) New, Fast and Effective Algorithms for Imaging, Compressed Sensing and Related Problems, with Applications
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 The Detection of z > 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields Jeff Cooke, postdoctoral fellow in cosmology, UC Irvine,

Tuesday, December 2
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 A Periodic Table for Topological Insulators and Superconductors Alexei Kitaev, professor of theoretical physics and computer science, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Subaru Weak Lensing Study of Galaxy Clusters Masahiro Takada, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 248 New Physics Search in Rare Tau Decays Sanjay Swain, research scientist in physics, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Free Energies and Mechanism of Chemical Reactions in Solution Weitao Yang, the Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry, Duke University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning Michelle L. Povinelli, assistant professor of electrical engineering, USC,

Wednesday, December 3
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Number Theory Matilde Marcolli, professor of mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Reconciling Observations of the Galaxy Merger Rate Jennifer Lotz, research fellow, National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Raymond Deshaies: Protein Recycling: Its Role in Human Biology and Disease Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Electronic Liquid Crystals Steve Kivelson, professor of physics, Stanford University,

Friday, December 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills Emery Sokatchev, Laboratoire d'Annecy-Le-Vieux de Physique Theorique (LAPTH),
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Topic to be announced. Michael Lilly, Sandia National Laboratories,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Semi-Flatland David Vegh, lecturer in physics, MIT,

Monday, December 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) What Can We Learn About the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell? Jack W. Szostak, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 A New High-Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Sasha Hinkley, graduate student in astronomy, Columbia University,

Tuesday, December 9
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Spectral Gap in Adiabatic Quantum Computation Mohammad Amin, visiting scholar, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Galaxy Evolution over the Last Two-Thirds of Cosmic Time Sandra Faber, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics Szabolcs Marka, assistant professor of physics, Columbia University,

Wednesday, December 10
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography and Dynamical Critical Phenomena Michael Mulligan, graduate student in physics, Stanford University,

Friday, December 12
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Weyl Invariance and the Origins of Mass Andrew Waldron, professor of mathematics, UC Davis,

Monday, December 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 TRAPHIC—Radiative Transfer for Large Hydrodynamical Simulation of Cosmic Reionization Andreas Pawlik, Leiden Observatory,

Tuesday, December 16
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium H-alpha Imaging Surveys of Galaxies: Star Formation Near and Far Janice Lee, Carnegie Observatories,

Monday, December 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Topic to be announced. Johan Richard, postdoctoral fellow in physics, University of Durham,