Spring Semester 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Tuesday Jan. 29 | Michael Meyer, University of Arizona | Two Tails of a Distribution Function: The Initial Mass Functions of Extreme Star Formation |
| Tuesday Feb. 5 | Paul Ho, Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA |
From the SMA to ALMA |
| Tuesday Feb. 12 | Paul Green, University of Arizona | Factory Trawling the X-ray Sky: The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) |
| Tuesday Feb. 26 | Steve Longmore, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | The Evolutionary Sequence of Protostellar Cores |
| Tuesday Mar. 18 | Sara Seager, MIT | Exoplanets: Interiors, Atmospheres, and the Search for Habitable Worlds |
| Tuesday April 1 | James Slavin, NASA/GSFC | MESSENGER Mission |
| Tuesday April 8 | Hans Zinnecker, Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam (AIP) | Do all (massive) stars form in clusters? |
| Tuesday April 15 | Ned Wright, UCLA | IR Cosmology |
| Tuesday April 22 | Robert Mathieu, University of Wisconsin | Open Clusters: Open Windows on Stellar Dynamics |
| Tuesday April 29 | Julio Navarro, University of Massachusetts | Dark Matter |
| Tuesday May 6 | Bruno Guidordoni, | Science and Religion |