Fall Semester 2008
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Tuesday Sept. 9 | Alan Marscher, BU/IAR | Probing Deeply Into the Inner Jets of Blazars |
| Tuesday Sept. 16 | No Colloquium | |
| Tuesday Sept. 23 | Soren Meibom, Center for Astrophysics | The Rotational Evolution of Low-Mass Stars |
| Tuesday Sept. 30 | No Colloquium | |
| Tuesday Oct. 7 | Max Tegmark, MIT | New Clues About Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy |
| Tuesday Oct. 14 | No Colloquium | |
| Tuesday Oct. 21 | Lisa Prato, Lowell Observatory | Young Planets in Visible and Infrared Light: Spots’ Tricks |
| Tuesday Oct. 28 | Jason Wright, Cornell University | TBA |
| Tuesday Nov. 4 | Elliot Horch, Southern Connecticut State University | Fainter and Closer: New High-Resolution Imaging Capabilities at the WIYN Telescope |
| Tuesday Nov. 18 | Dava Sobel, Author | Joint IAR/CSP Seminar: The Drama of Copernicus: How He Was Convinced to Publish his Crazy Idea |
| Tuesday Nov. 25 | Gerritt Verschuur, University of Memphis | Intermediate and High-Velocity “Clouds” A New Look at an Old Problem |
| Tuesday Dec. 2 | Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin | The Origin and Evolution of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields |
| Tuesday Dec. 9 | Tim Beers, Michigan State University | SEGUE-1, SEGUE-2, and the Future of Large Scale Surveys of the Galaxy |