Thursday, December 1
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Physics Research Conference East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall) The Biard Lecture: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Habitable Worlds Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Friday, December 2
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Gravity from conformal large-N gauge theory Edgar Shaghoulian, UC Santa Barbara,
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	High Energy Theory Seminar Lauritsen 469 Automorphy, Wall Crossing, and Symmetries of BPS States Natalie Paquette, Stanford University,
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers and their Gravitational Waves Luke Kelley, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar East Bridge 114 Local Hamiltonians Whose Ground States are Hard to Approximate Aram Harrow, Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT,
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Geometry and Topology Seminar Coarse and fine geometry of the Thurston metric David Dumas, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar TBA Shahaf Nitzan, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology,
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Caltech/UCLA Joint Analysis Seminar Diameter bounds for the Cayley graphs of finite simple groups of large rank Yilong Yang, Department of Mathematics, UCLA,

Monday, December 5
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium TBD Dr. Jonelle Walsh, Texas A & M,

Tuesday, December 6
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 Effect of sine-Gaussian transients on searches of gravitational waves from compact coalescing binaries Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Physics, IUCAA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) By Indirections Find Directions Out: Molecular Photovoltaics Mark A. Ratner, Lawrence B. Dumas Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Chemistry, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, December 7
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Mathematical Physics Seminar Spectral asymptotics for fractional Laplacian Victor Ivrii, Mathematics Department, University of Toronto,
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Combinatorics Seminar On the number of ordinary lines determined by sets in complex space Abdul Basit, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University,
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm	Konstantin Batygin - Planet Nine from Outer Space Beckman Auditorium

Friday, December 9
10:00 am - 11:00 am	"Realizing NSF's Vision for Research and Discovery," a talk with France Cordova, NSF director Kerckhoff 119
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Mathematics Colloquium Homological densities Melanie Matchett Wood, Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room) Visualizing the Behavior of Relativistic Electrons in Simple 2D Potentials in Graphene Dillon Wong, Crommie Group, University of California, Berkeley,
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Stargazing Lecture Baxter Lecture Hall ALMA: A Revolutionary New View of the Cosmos Nick Scoville, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Caltech,

Tuesday, December 13
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	LIGO Seminar Downs 314 An overview of data quality issues in Advanced LIGO's second observing run  Jess McIver, LIGO, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium CANCELLED -- Will try to reschedule at a later date Prof. Vicky Kaspi, McGill Univ.,

Friday, December 16
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	TAPIR Seminar Cahill 370 Updates on Kilonova Models Jennifer Barnes, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,

Sunday, December 18
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Art Inspired by Astronomy: Maria Popova and Lia Halloran in Conversation Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium

Tuesday, December 20
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Carnegie Observatories Colloquium Series Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium A Fresh Look at Molecular Gases in Galaxies Prof. Jason Glenn, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder,