| October 10: | Chris Monroe National Institute for Science and Technology | "Quantum Computers and Schrodinger's Cat" |
| October 17: | Wick Haxton University of Washington | "Axel Lecture-Nucleosynthesis and Other Consequences of Supernova Neutrinos" |
| October 24: | Shivaji Sondhi Princeton University | "McMillan Lecture-Continued Quantum Phase Transitions in the Quantum Hall Regime" |
| October 31: | Ole Philipsen University of Heidelberg | "The Cosmological Electroweak Phase Transition" |
| November 7: | Ruth Howes Ball State University | "Women Physicists and the Manhattan Project" |
| November 14: | Gordon Baym University of Illinois | "Hanbury-Brown and Twiss' Magic Interferometry: From Stars to Nuclear Collisions" |
| November 21: | Joseph Orenstein University of California at Berkeley | "From Heinrich Hertz to Terahertz: Searching for Nonlinearity in Superconductors" |
| December 5: | Ian Robertson University of Illinois | "Coherent X-ray Diffraction" |
| December 12: | Jackie Hewitt MIT | "Measuring the Geometry of the Universe with Gravitational Lenses" |