| Date | Speaker Title |
| August 24 | Jennifer Marshall (Ohio State) Mapping the Local Galactic Halo and An Image Motion Compensation System for the MODS Spectrograph |
| Date | Speaker Title |
| September 8 | Aaron Barth (UC Irvine) The smallest massive black holes in nearby galaxy nuclei |
| September 22 | David Merritt (RIT)
Dynamics of Galactic Nuclei: Beyond the Million-Body Problem |
| October 6 | Mark Whittle (Virginia)
Jet-Gas Interactions in Seyfert Galaxies |
| October 20 | Christine Jones (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Reflections of AGN Outbursts in Galaxies and Clusters |
| October 27 | Michael Rauch (Carnegie Observatories)
The Impact of Galaxies on the High Redshift Intergalactic Medium |
| November 3 | J. Christopher Howk (Notre Dame)
Studying the Cosmic Evolution of Galaxies through their Gas |
| November 10 | James Bullock (UC Irvine)
Cosmology and the Stellar Halo |
| November 17 | Charles Gammie (Illinois)
Numerical Models of Black Hole Accretion Flows |
| December 1 | Martin Hendry (Glasgow)
Bayesian Model Selection in Astronomy |
| January 10 Note: Tuesday |
Linda Tacconi
(Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany) Dynamics and Evolution of Ultraluminous Galaxies at Low and High Redshift |
| January 12 | Scott Burles (MIT) First results from the SDSS Lens + ACS (SLACS) survey |
| January 19 | J. Patrick Henry (IfA, Hawai`i) High Resolution X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of the Warm-Hot Intergalactric Medium |
| January 26 | Chris Burke (Ohio State) Fraction of Stars With Planets in the Open Cluster NGC 1245 |
| February 1 Note: Wednesday |
Matthew J. Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) The Use of Transit Timing to Detect Extrasolar Planets |
| February 9 | Sébastien Lépine (American Museum of Natural History) Completing the stellar census of the nearest 100 light-years: a quest for moving stars |
| February 14 Note: Tuesday at 2pm |
Madappa Prakash (Ohio University) The Role of the Equation of State in Binary Mergers |
| February 23 | Christy Tremonti (Arizona) Post-starburst galaxies at z=0 - 1: New Clues to the Formation of the Red Sequence |
| March 2 | Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley) Magnetic Fields in Starburst Galaxies and the Origin of the FIR-Radio Correlation |
| March 9 | Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame) Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae |
| March 30 | Jay Lockman (NRAO) From the disk to the halo: the new view of Galactic Hydrogen from the Green Bank Telescope |
| April 6 | Inese Ivans (Carnegie Observatories) Near-UV Observations of Low-Metallicity Stars: New Insights into Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis Processes |
| April 13 | Marla Geha (Carnegie Observatories) The Baryon Content of Low Mass Dwarf Galaxies |
| April 20 | Brian McLeod (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Searching for Planets and the Most Distant Galaxies with the MMT Megacam |
| April 27 | Joan Najita (NOAO) Probing Planet Forming Disks: Clues to the Origins of Planetary Systems |
| May 4 | Nancy Brickhouse (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Studying Shocks, Winds, and Loops using X-ray Spectroscopy |
| May 15 Note: Monday at 12:30 |
Sumner Starrfield (Arizona State) The Projenitors of Supernovae of Type Ia |
| May 15 Note: Monday at 2:30 |
Scott Gaudi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Xena, Santa, Sedna and Beyond: Explorations of the Outer Solar System |
| May 16 Note: Tuesday |
Steve Hawley (Johnson Space Center) HST and the Space Shuttle -- A Perspective From Two Decades Later |
| May 18 | Lisa Kewley (IfA, Hawai'i) Metallicity in Nearby Galaxy Pairs: Evidence for Tidally Induced Gas Flows |
| June 1 | Mary Putman (Michigan) What goes on in the dark? |