Monday, December 3
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Tea Talk Linde 106 Observations of Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology Yeng-Ting Lin, postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics, Princeton University,
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Mathematics Colloquium Firestone 306 Dynamics and Defect Formation in Liquid Crystalline Polymers under Shear Flow

Tuesday, December 4
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 An Overview of Quantum Expanders Matthew Hastings, member of the technical staff, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Stellar Planet Survey (STEPS): An Ongoing Astrometric Search for Extrasolar Giant Planets around Nearby M-dwarfs Stuart Shaklan, astronomer, JPL, Steve Pravdo, astronomer, JPL,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Black Hole Binary Mergers and Black Hole Spectroscopy Dr. Emanuele Berti, JPL,

Wednesday, December 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Local Coordinates via Heat Kernels or Eigenfunctions Raanan Schul, assistant professor of mathematics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Applied Physics Seminar Watson 104 Ultra-Compact Integrated Wavelength Demultiplexers and Spectrometers Using Photonic Crystal Structures Ali Adibi, associate professor of optics and photonics, Georgia Tech University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Astronomy Colloquium Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall) Protoplanetary Disks: Analogs of the Early Solar System David Wilner, astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and lecturer in astronomy, Harvard University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library MINOS Juan Pedro Ochoa, graduate student in physics, Caltech,
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Genes & Circuits: Mice & Flies' Emotional Behavior: David J. Anderson Beckman Auditorium

Thursday, December 6
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) Scalable Quantum Networks with Atoms and Photons H. Jeff Kimble, William L. Valentine Professor and professor of physics, Caltech,

Friday, December 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Symmetries in String Theory Michael Dine, professor of physics, UC Santa Cruz,
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Steele 214 Verifying Multimode Entanglement Pavel Lougovski, postdoctoral researcher in physics, University of Oregon,
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Problems in Computational Topology
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Kellogg Seminar Lauritsen Library EDM Calculation C.P. Liu, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Monday, December 10
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biophysics Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Engineering Light-Gated Ion Channels for the Control of Neuronal Firing and Behavior Ehud Isacoff, professor of neurobiology, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, December 11
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Physics and Geometry Seminar Renormalization and Galois Symmetries Matilde Marcolli, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany,
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Andrea Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy, UCLA,

Wednesday, December 12
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	CS Seminar Jorgensen 74 Multidimensional Persistence

Friday, December 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Comments on the Holomorphic Anomaly for Closed and Open Topological Strings Andy Neitzke, Institute for Advanced Study,
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematics of Information Seminar Moore 239 Computing Optimum Homotopy on Surfaces
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Institute for Quantum Information Seminar Jorgensen 74 NMR and Quantum Information Processing Raymond Laflamme, professor of of physics, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo,

Tuesday, December 18
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium The Nature of Bright 24-Micron Galaxies at High Redshift Lin Yan, Spitzer Science Center, Caltech,