Monday, September 9
7:50 am - 1:00 pm	The Keck Institute for Space Studies presents a short course on: Ocean-Ice Interactions in Antarctica South Mudd 365

Monday, September 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Topological Order on the Surface of Three Dimensional Topological Insulators Xie Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Insights into Cosmic Reionization from the Evolution of the UV Background" George Becker, IoA, Cambridge,

Tuesday, September 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Star Formation, Black Holes, and Feedback in Galaxy Formation Prof. Phil Hopkins, Caltech,

Monday, September 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 107 Mathematical Theories on Linear and Nonlinear Wave Motions in Viscous Compressible Fluid Professor Shih-Hsien Yu, Department of Mathematics , National University of Singapore,

Tuesday, September 24
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Nested quantum walks with quantum data structures Robin Kothari, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Buildup of the Red Squence with Cosmic Time Dr. Ryan Quadri, Carnegie Observatories,

Friday, September 27
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Special TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers Selma de Mink, Einstein Lyman Spitzer Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics, Carngie Observatory / Caltech,

Monday, September 30
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Unveiling the Progenitors of Short-duration Gamma-ray Bursts Wen-fai Fong, cfa Harvard,

Tuesday, October 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 13 TeV physics perspectives at the LHC Maurizio Pierini, CERN,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) High-dimensional Surprises Near the Glass and the Jamming Transitions Patrick Charbonneau, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Physics and CBB Program , Chemistry and Physics, Duke University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Fomalhaut b's Eccentric Orbit and Main Belt Structure: Evidence for other Fomalhaut Planets? Prof. Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, October 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From building blocks to large galaxies: towards understanding the formation of the Milky Way Anna Frebel, MIT,

Friday, October 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 From dlogs to dilogs Arthur Lipstein, University of Oxford,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Nuclear Processes in Accretion Disks from Compact Object Mergers: an Engine for Electromagnetic Transients Rodrigo Fernandez, Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley,

Sunday, October 6
7:00 am - 5:00 pm	Retina Symposium - OkularFest 2013 Beckman Auditorium

Monday, October 7
7:50 am - 1:00 pm	The Keck Institute for Space Studies presents a short course on: Satellites, Ocean Robots and the Marine Carbon Cycle Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 269 Dimensional reduction of S-Confining Dualities Mario Martone, Cornell,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Tuning the Ground State of Fe Pnictide Superconductors. Ni Ni, Professor, UCLA,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Illustris Project: Populating the Hubble Sequence in Cosmological Simulations Paul Torrey, (CfA) Harvard,

Tuesday, October 8
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 107 Simulation of dynamical abelian and no-abelian lattice gauge theories with cold atoms Benni Reznik, Tel-Aviv University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium What is the Universe Made of ? Insights from Gravitational Lensing Prof. Tommaso Treu, UCSB,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Searching for Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays Justin Ellis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Higgs-Motivated Search Strategies for Supersymmetry at CMS Benjamin Hooberman, FNAL,

Wednesday, October 9
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium A Cold Dark Matter Controversy in Dwarf Galaxies James Bullock, UC Irvine,

Thursday, October 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs in High Dimensional Learning Philippe Rigollet, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

Friday, October 11
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Holography for a small world Vladimir Rosenhaus, UC Berkeley,

Monday, October 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Hidden (Hastatic) Order in URu2Si2 Rebbeca Flint, Professor, Iowa State University,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Nimble Algorithms for Cloud Computing Ravi Kannan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, India,

Tuesday, October 15
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Niel Brandt, PSU,

Wednesday, October 16
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Dust-Obscured Activity in High Redshift Galaxies Alexandra Pope, UMass,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Richard S. Ellis - Let There Be Light: Finding the Earliest Galaxies Beckman Auditorium

Friday, October 18
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 BPS, Non-BPS and D-brane anti D-brane effective actions in type II Superstring theory with their corrections to all orders in alpha-prime Ehsan Hatefi, ICTP, Trieste,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Can Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers Produce Gamma-Ray Bursts? Zachariah Etienne, Department of Astronomy, UMD and NASA GSFC,

Monday, October 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Beckman Institute Auditorium Quantitative predictive understanding of bacterial growth physiology Terence Hwa, Professor, Department of Physics and Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Emergent Space-time Supersymmetry in Topological Superconductors Tarun Grover, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium "Galaxy Zoo, Barred Galaxies and Secula Evolution" Edmund Cheung, USCS,

Tuesday, October 22
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Prof. Piet van der Kruit, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute,

Wednesday, October 23
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Bottom-up Synthesis of Structurally Precise Organic Materials and Interfaces William R. Dichtel, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Planetesimals to Giant Planets: Chemical and Dynamical Probes of Planet Formation Joan Najita, NOAO,

Thursday, October 24
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Shuffling Cards and Adding Numbers Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University,

Friday, October 25
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Probing Induced Higher-Spin Gauge Theory Benjamin Safdi, Princeton University,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Vector beta function Yu Nakayama, Caltech & Kavli IPMU, Univ of Tokyo,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Do Galaxy Clusters Boil? Mike McCourt, Graduate Student, Astronomy Department, U.C. Berkeley,

Monday, October 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Ania Jayich, Assistant Professor, UCSB,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Advancements in modeling galaxy mergers: Synthetic observations and a more accurate numerical method Chris Hayward, ITS, Heidelberg,

Tuesday, October 29
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Chris Hayward, Heidelberger Inst. for Theoretical Studies,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 ENZ and MNZ Phenomena Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor, University of Pennslyvania,

Wednesday, October 30
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Globular Clusters and Halo Stars: Chemodynamical tracers of galaxy assembly Jean Brodie, UCO Lick Observatory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Computing + Mathematical Sciences Seminar Annenberg 105 Petri nets, chemistry, and quantum theory John Baez, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California - Riverside,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Proximity Effect Induced Topological Superconductor and Majorana Modes Jinfeng Jia, Professor, Physics, Shanghai Jia Tong University,

Friday, November 1
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 A (0,2) overview Ilarion Melnikov, MPI, Potsdam,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays Ke Fang, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago,

Monday, November 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Model checking and strategy synthesis for mobile autonomy: from theory to practice Marta Kwiatkowski, Trinity College, University of Oxford,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The Outer Architecture of M Dwarf Planetary Systems Revealed Through High-Contrast Imaging Brendan Bowler, GPS, Caltech,
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Joint Applied Mathematics Colloquium / EE Systems Seminar Annenberg 105 From Cloud to Fog Mung Chiang, Electrical Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Computer Science, Princeton University,

Tuesday, November 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Molecular Modeling of Metal-Organic Frameworks: Breathing, Proton Conduction, and Spin Crossover Francesco Paesani, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Development and Performance of MOSFIRE, the Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infrared Exploration at Keck Observatory Prof. Ian McLean, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:45 pm	Charles R. Deprima Memorial Undergraduate Mathematics Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall Geometrical Snapshots from Ancient Times to Modern Times Tom Apostol, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The microphysics of astrophysics: adventures in computational magnetohydrodynamics Xuening Bai, Harvard,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Axel Scherer - From Lab-on-a-Chip to Lab-in-the-Body: The Role of Nanotechnology in the Miniaturization of Medical Diagnostic Tools Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, November 7
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Sometimes Surprising Behavior of Magnetic Spins on a Complex Surface Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center,

Friday, November 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 F-theory Compactifications With Multiple U(1)-Factors Denis Klevers, Univ of Pennsylvania,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Getting the Most Out of a Black Hole Alexander Tchekhovskoy, NASA Einstein Fellow , Nuclear Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

Monday, November 11
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Sampling Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra and Their Application Yousef Saad, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota,

Tuesday, November 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 Exponential Improvement in Precision for Hamiltonian-Evolution Simulation Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBA Dr. Alis Deason, UCO/Lick),
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Exploring the Free Energy Landscapes of Complex Molecules & Crystal Polymorphs Using Enhanced Sampling & Machine Learning Techniques Mark E. Tuckerman, Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics, Department of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY,
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Free Public Lecture Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Theodore von Kármán and Rocketry at Caltech Erik M. Conway, Historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Wednesday, November 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The build-up of galaxies since z~2 Pieter van Dokkum, Yale,

Thursday, November 14
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) International Science Diplomacy E. William Colglazier, Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State, U.S. State Department,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 105 Multi-Dimensional Polynomial Interpolation on Arbitrary Nodes Professor Dongbin Xiu, Department of Mathematics, and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Unversity of Utah,

Friday, November 15
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Phases of 5d Gauge Theories, Monopole Walls, and Melting Crystals Sergey Cherkis, Univ of Arizona,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Supernova neutrinos – flavor evolution and signals Tina Lund, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, North Carolina State University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Wilson, Naturalness, and the Higgs Andrew Cohen, Boston University,

Monday, November 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium **SPECIAL DAY/TIME** Annenberg 105 Topic to be announced. Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Statistics / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Annenberg 105 Stability Professor Bin Yu, Departments of Statistics and EECS, University of California at Berkeley,
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Defect lines in 2d CFTs Daniel Roggenkamp, University of Heidelberg,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 High Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrions in IceCube Claudio Kopper, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Bright and dark: satellite galaxies as a test of galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter Anna Nierenberg, UCSB,

Tuesday, November 19
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete David Gosset, University of Waterloo,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Annenberg 105 The Bose-Hubbard model on a graph is QMA-complete David Gosset, University of Waterloo,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium CANCELED — The Thirty Meter Telescope: How California, Canada, China, India and Japan are Working Together to Build a Next Generation Extremely Large Telescope Gary Sanders, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Active, sterile neutrinos and dark matter in models with new U(1) gauge symmetry Rathin Adhikari, Centre for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Watching the wave function collapse: observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting qubit Kater Murch, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Wavefunction Antisymmetry and Molecular Dissociation: Fixing Coupled Cluster Theory Frederick R. Manby, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Seeing Gravitational Waves: Transients in the Local Universe Dr. Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie Observatories,

Wednesday, November 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Applied Mathematics Annenberg 213 Learning the Learning Rate: How to Repair Bayes When the Model is Wrong Professor Peter Grünwald, CWI Amsterdam & Leiden University ,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Cosmic Reionization Chris Carilli, NRAO, Socorro,

Thursday, November 21
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Moore B280 Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach. Christoph Flamm, Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Many-Body Localization: What is It and What are Its Implications? Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Q Station, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Seminar in Computing & Mathematical Sciences Annenberg 105 Exploring chemical reaction spaces using a graph grammar approach. Christoph Flamm, Professor, Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna,

Friday, November 22
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Scattering Amplitudes, Unitarity, and the Positive Grassmannian Jacob Bourjaily, Harvard,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium From Plasma Microphysics to Global Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies, Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows, and the Solar Wind Matthew Kunz, NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University,

Monday, November 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Future Searches for Sterile Neutrinos Jonathan Link, Virginia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 How to detect symmetry protected topological order in a two dimensional ground state wavefunction Michael Zaletel, UC Berkeley,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium The All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae Ben Shappee, Ohio State,

Tuesday, November 26
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	High Energy Physics Seminar Lauritsen 469 Possible Implications of Double Disk Dark Matter Lisa Randall, Harvard,

Monday, December 2
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 TBA Johnpierre Paglione, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland,
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,

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	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar East Bridge 114 Theory of Extremely Correlated Fermi Liquids Sriram Shastry, Professor, UC Santa Cruz,
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,

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,