Monday, December 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Title TBD Michael Hermele, University of Colorado - Boulder,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Algebraic Geometry Seminar Higgs bundles, spectral data, and applications Laura Schaposnik, J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Urbana Champaign,

Tuesday, December 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Math Graduate Seminar Cyclic Pursuit on Manifolds Dmitri Gekhtman, Graduate Student, Mathematics, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium The geometry of the Hitchin component Richard Canary, Professor, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Paul W. Merrill: The Man Who Discovered the Evolving Universe Jacob Berkowitz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CMI Seminar Annenberg 213 An Approximate Version of Caratheodory's Theorem and Its Algorithmic Applications (part 2)

Wednesday, December 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The onset of large-scale dynamical instability in the Solar System Konstantin Batygin, Caltech (GPS),

Thursday, December 4
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Logic Seminar The greatest ambit and the universal minimal flow from the Boolean algebra point of view Dana Bartosova, Professor, Mathematics, University of San Paulo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Gravity and Entanglement Mark Van Raamsdonk, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia,

Friday, December 5
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Mark Van Raamsdonk, University of British Columbia,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Recursion Relation for Conformal Blocks Masahito Yamazaki, IMPU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Zen of Core Collapse: How to See A Supernova That Doesn't Happen Elizabeth Lovegrove, Graduate Student, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Quantifying residual properties of virtually special groups Mark Hagen, RTG Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Decouplings and applications Ciprian Demeter, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Indiana University,
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 All-fermion electrodynamics and fermion number anomaly inflow Shauna Kravec, Graduate Student, Department of Physics, Univ. of California, San Diego,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Scattering Theory for the Boltzmann Equation and the Arrow of Time (joint work with Claude Bardos, Irene Gamba, and Francois Golse) David Levermore, Professor, Mathematics, University of Maryland,

Monday, December 8
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Downs 107 Searches for long-lived particles Abi Soffer, SLAC,

Tuesday, December 9
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Taussky-Todd Lecture Stacks in Representation Theory (What is a continuous representation of an algebraic group?) Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Prospects for gravitational-wave background detection with Advanced LIGO/Virgo Eric Thrane, Monash University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk, Univ. of Toronto,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Nima Arkani-Hamed: Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime in the 21st Century Beckman Auditorium

Wednesday, December 10
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Biard Lecture East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Future of Particle Colliders Nima Arkani-Hamed, Biard Visiting Lecturer, IAS,

Thursday, December 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Number Theory Seminar The eigencurve at classical weight one points Mladen Dimitrov, Professor, Mathematics, University Lille 1,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Paul Dirac - the theorist's theorist Graham Farmelo, Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston ,

Friday, December 12
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Some outstanding problems in the evolution of supernova progenitors Samuel Jones, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Polyhedra inscribed in quadrics, AdS and HP geometries Sara Maloni, Mathematics, Brown University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Combinatorial methods on actions on character varieties Sara Maloni, Mathemtics, Brown University,

Tuesday, December 16
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Taussky-Todd Lecture Taussky-Todd Lecture Series IV: Periods and global invariants of automorphic representations Joseph Bernstein, Professor of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Many-body effects in quasi-2D transition metal dichalcogenides Timothy C. Berkelbach, Ph.D., Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Particle physics solutions to cosmological lithium problem Maxim Pospelov, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Probing the Dark Matter Halo of the Milky Way Prof. Nitya Kallivayalil, Univ. of Virginia,

Wednesday, December 17
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Andrei Faraon - Controlling Light on a Chip at the Single-Photon Level Beckman Auditorium

Friday, December 19
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 TBA Jim Halverson, KITP, UCSB,