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,