| DATE | SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TOPIC | EXTRAS |
| Sep. 30, Tuesday | OPEN | OPEN | OPEN | |
| Oct. 07, Tuesday | Suzanne Hawley (and others) | Univ. of Washington | A Report on Summer Meetings (IAU, SDSS, etc) | |
| Oct. 14, Tuesday | Beth Amsbary | Pacific Science Center | Enticing the Public | |
| Oct. 21, Tuesday | Tom Hankins | Univ. of Washington | Galileo and the Vatican: The Issues, Forces, and Battles | |
| Oct. 28, Tuesday | George Coyne | Vatican Observatory and the Univ. of Arizona | History and Significance of the Vatican Observatory Summer Schools in Astrophysics | He will be giving the astro colloquium on Oct. 30 |
| Nov. 07, FRIDAY!! 12:45-1:30pm | Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | American Museum of Natural History | Cosmological Feedback from Dwarf Starburst Galaxies | He will be giving the astro colloquium on Nov. 06 |
| Nov. 11, Tuesday | Veteran's Day | No Lunch Talk Today | No Lunch Talk Today | |
| Nov. 18, Tuesday | Cathy Trott | Univ. of Melbourne | Constraining Galactic Parameters with Gravitational Lensing | |
| Nov. 25, Tuesday | Lee Homer | Univ. of Washington | Chandra X-ray Observatory Unearths the Compact Binary Population of Globular Clusters | |
| Dec. 02, Tuesday | Anil Seth | Univ. of Washington | The Formation and Evolution of Massive Young Clusters | |
| Dec. 03, WEDNESDAY! | Ken Mighell | National Optical Astronomy Observatory | Serendipitous Discovery of Variable Stars in WFPC2 Observations of the Central Region of the Globular Cluster M54 | |
| Dec. 09, Tuesday | Albert Linnell | Univ. of Washington | The hot White Dwarf in the Cataclysmic Variable MV Lyrae | |
| Dec. 16, Tuesday | Inese Ivans | California Inst. of Tech. | Globular Clusters in the Outer Halo |