Friday, December 1
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Condensed Matter Physics Seminar Downs 107 Simple Models of Glass Transitions Daniel S. Fisher, professor of physics and applied physics, Harvard University,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Statistical Learning III: A Convex Approach to Semisupervised and Unsupervised Learning
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library The Homestake Underground Laboratory-Opportunities for Physics Research Dr. Kevin Lesko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,

Tuesday, December 5
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 The Sound of Inflation: Phonon Correlations in a Chirped Ion Nicolas Menicucci, graduate student in physics, Princeton University,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Megamasers and Dark Energy Fred Lo, director, National Radio Astronomy Observatory,

Wednesday, December 6
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Sturm-Liouville Operators in the Half Axis with Local Perturbations and Shifted Potentials Rafael del Rio Castillo, IIMAS-UNAM,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a Cosmological Probe Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Why Did Europe Conquer the World?: Philip Hoffman Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 7
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	IST Seminar Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) Sampling Algorithms and Coresets for Lp Regression and Applications
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Didina Serban, researcher, SPhT, CEA Saclay,
3:20 pm - 4:30 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 SLE Ilya Gruzberg, assistant professor of physics, University of Chicago,

Friday, December 8
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Topic to be announced. Elie Gorbatov, department of physics, UC San Diego,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Chern-Simons Wilson Loops and Bubbling Calabi-Yaus Takuya Okuda, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara,

Monday, December 11
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) How Cells Sense and Respond to Force and Geometry through Substrate Priming of Oncogenes and Periodic Contractions Michael Sheetz, professor of biological sciences, Columbia University,

Tuesday, December 12
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 Quantum Network Coding—The Butterfly and Beyond Debbie Leung, assistant professor, department of combinatorics and optimization, University of Waterloo,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A Large Population of High Redshift Galaxy Clusters Mark Brodwin, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow and National Research Council Associate, JPL,