Thursday, December 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) QHE, Metrology, and the New Kilogram Klaus von Klitzing, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany,

Friday, December 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 ABJM theory as a Fermi gas Pavel Putrov, Univ de Geneve,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Validating and Characterizing Transiting Exoplanets from Space with EPOXI, Kepler, and Warm Spitzer Sarah Ballard, CfA,

Monday, December 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation Diana Lopez Nacir, Univ of Buenos Aires,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Infrared Observations of Exoplanet Atmospheres Ian Crossfield, UCLA,

Tuesday, December 6
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium "Dwarf spheroidal galaxies: a landmark for galaxy formation"
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room) Thermionic and photon-enhanced emission for solar thermal energy conversion Nick Melosh, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring Protein Energy Landscapes by NMR Relaxation Peter E. Wright, Cecil and Ida M. Green Investigator, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA,

Wednesday, December 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Shocked Molecular Gas in Compact Groups: Can it Affect Galaxy Evolution in Dense Environments? Phil Appleton, IPAC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University,
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Frances H. Arnold: "Design By Evolution: Engineering Biology in the 21st Century" Beckman Auditorium

Friday, December 9
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Peng Zhao, DAMTP, Cambridge,

Monday, December 12
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill 370 Taking Census of Extreme Hearschel-bright Starbursts at High-z Caitlin Casey, IfA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study,

Tuesday, December 13
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 LHC results of Higgs boson searches using 2010 and 2011 data Harvey Newman, Caltech,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar East Bridge 114 Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves Together Tony Piro, Tapir, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm	Keck Institute for Space Studies Lecture Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Science in Cyberspace S. George Djorgovski, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Caltech,

Wednesday, December 14
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	IPAC Astronomy Lunch Seminar IPAC 102 (Large Conference Room) Planck - The Long Lagrangian Road Ben Rusholme, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Piecing Together the Epoch of Reionization Steve Furlanetto, UCLA,

Monday, December 19
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be Announced Masahito Yamazaki, Princeton,

Tuesday, December 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Synthesizing materials at the nanoscale for advanced energy applications Dunwei Wang, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Boston College,