Monday, December 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Effects of electron scattering on the topological properties of nanowires: Majorana fermions from disorder and superlattices İnanç Adagideli, Sabanci University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 New Results from LUX Carmen Carmona, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Johnpierre Paglione, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,

Tuesday, December 3
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Simplified Quantum Compiling with Complex Gate Distillation Guillaume Duclos-Cianci, Department of Physics, University of Sherbrooke,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Real-Time Cosmology Prof. Jeremy Darling, Univ. of Colorado,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Peptide Aggregation: Structures and Mechanisms Michael T. Bowers, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, December 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Scientific highlights from the Palomar Robo-AO system and plans for a Mauna Kea Robo-AO Christoph Baranec, Univ of Hawaii,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Fiona A. Harrison - From Spinning Black Holes to Exploding Stars: A New View of the Energetic Universe Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Quantitative Results on the Corrector Equation in Stochastic Homogenization. Professor Antoine Gloria, Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Life at the Single Molecule Level Sunney Xie, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,

Friday, December 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Collisions in AdS and the thermalization of heavy-ion collisions Wilke van der Schee, Utrecht University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Investigations on the gaseous environment of distant galaxies Michele Fumagalli, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Observatories, Princeton University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Complete Solution to the Most General Nonlinear Filtering Problems and Its Implementation Professor Stephen Yau, Tsinghua University,

Monday, December 9
1:15 pm - 6:00 pm	50th Anniversary of Gell-Mann's Quark Model of Hadrons Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Predictive Biology through Genome-scale Models Bernhard Palsson, Professor or Bioengineering, Systems Biology Research Group, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Theory of Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids Sriram Shastry, Professor, UC Santa Cruz,

Tuesday, December 10
9:00 am - 12:00 pm	50th Anniversary of Gell-Mann's Quark Model of Hadrons Symposium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Jessica Werk, UCSC,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Majorana ghosts: From topological superconductor to the origin of neutrino masses, three generations and their mass mixing Zheng-Cheng Gu, Caltech & Perimeter Institute,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill 370 The GW Discovery Space of Pulsar Timing Arrays Curt Cutler, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Mid-Infrared Properties of Directly Imaged Exoplanets Andrew Skemer, Arizona,

Wednesday, December 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium On the Fine Structure of the Cepheid Metallicity Gradient in the Galactic Thin Disk Prof. Giuseppe Bono, University of Rome Tor Vergata,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Composite Weak Bosons and the New Boson at the LHC Harald Fritzsch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Circumstellar Disks to Extrasolar Planets: Observational Insights Andrea Isella, Caltech,

Friday, December 13
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 \Delta I = 1/2 Rule for Kaon Decays derived from QCD Infrared Fixed Point Rod Crewther, University of Adelaide,

Monday, December 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Preparing and preserving low entropy states in optical lattices Stephan Langer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Planet formation in action: the role of dust trapping in transitional disks Nienke van der Marel, Leiden,

Tuesday, December 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Reverse-engineering quantum theory: (anti-)matter waves, interferometry, and clocks. Holger Mueller, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of California - Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Zheng Zheng, Univ. of Utah,

Wednesday, December 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Angular momentum transport in stars Matteo Cantiello, Kavli,

Friday, December 20
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Maximal Unitarity at Two Loops David Kosower, CEA-Saclay,