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,