| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TOPIC | EXTRAS |
| Jan 04, Tuesday | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN |
| Jan 11, Tuesday | No Lunch Talk | San Diego, CA | No Lunch Talk | AAS Meeting |
| Jan 18, Tuesday | Julie Lutz | Univ. of Washington | NASA Education and Public Outreach Programs | N/A |
| Jan 25, Tuesday | Bruce Balick | Univ. of Washington | The Hubble Repair Mission: Do or Die? | N/A |
| Jan 28, FRIDAY | Sangeeta Malhotra | Space Telescope Science Institute | The GRism ACS Program for Extragalactic Science (GRAPES): from Galactic dark matter to cosmic reionization. | From 2:30-3:20pm, reading room (B356A) |
| Feb 01, Tuesday | Victor Debattista | Univ. of Washington | Just Peanuts | N/A |
| Feb 08, Tuesday | Erika Bohm-Vitense | Univ. of Washington | The puzzle of the metallic line stars | N/A |
| Feb 15, Tuesday | Betty Schmitz | Univ. of Washington | Understanding and Improving Department Climate | Director, Office of Minority Affairs |
| Feb 22, Tuesday | Neal Turner | JPL | How Black Hole Disks Stay Cool | N/A |
| Mar 01, Tuesday | Andreas Koch | Astronomical Institute of the Univ. of Basel | Chemical Evolution in the Carina dSph | N/A |
| Mar 08, Tuesday | Rachel Wade | Univ. of Washington | Never let your students see your backside: 10 easy changes to make any lecture more effective | N/A |
| Mar 15, Tuesday | Vincent Woolf | Univ. of Washington | Metallicities of M and K dwarf stars | Finals Week |
| Mar 22, Tuesday | Gary Schmidt | Steward Observatory, Univ. of Arizona | Cooking with Gauss: The Designer Kitchen of Magnetic Funnels and Siphons in Close Binary Systems | Spring Break Week |