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,