Spring Semester 2009
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Tuesday Jan. 20 | Warren Brown, CfA | Hypervelocity Stars and Massive Black Holes |
| Tuesday Jan. 27 | Dan Clemens, IAR | GPIPS and other fun with the Perkins Telescope |
| Tuesday Feb. 3 | No Seminar | |
| Tuesday Feb. 10 | Andrew West, MIT | From Foreground Trash to Bountiful Treasure: Galactic Stratigraphy, Magnetic Activity and the Kinematics of M dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| Tuesday Feb. 17 | Nathan Smith, UC Berkeley Monday Schedule but we are still having seminar at 4pm. |
Eruptive Mass Loss in Massive Stars and Precursors to the Most Luminous Supernova Explosions |
| Monday Feb. 23 | Riccardo Schiavon,Gemini | The History of Star Formation of Early-Type Galaxies |
| Tuesday Feb. 24 | Stella Kafka, CalTech | Magnetic Activity on CV Secondaries: Nature or Nurture? |
| Tuesday Mar. 3 | No Seminar | |
| Friday Mar. 6 | Peter Frinchaboy, University of Wisconsin | Stellar Tracers: Probing Physics and Galactic Structure |
| Tuesday Mar. 17 | Cornelia Lang, University of Iowa | The Galactic Center |
| Tuesday Mar. 24 | Ed Berschinger, MIT | Dark Energy or Modified Gravity? |
| Tuesday Mar. 31 | Peter Barnes, University of Florida | The CHAMPS Mopra Molecular Line Survey |
| Tuesday Apr. 7 | Peter Schloerb, University of Massachusetts | LMT |
| Tuesday Apr. 14 | Gregor Tucker, Brown University | BLAST |
| Tuesday Apr. 21 | Richard French, Wellesley University | Saturn or Pluto |
| Tuesday Apr. 28 | Evan Skillman, University of Minnesota | The Recent Star Formation Histories of Nearby Galaxies |