| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title of Talk |
| Monday, August 25 | Steven Spangler | University of Iowa | The Physics of Railroads |
| Monday, September 01 | LABOR DAY | ---------- | no colloquium |
| Monday, September 08 | Steven Kawaler | Iowa State University | The Kepler Mission's Other Legacy: Space-Based Asteroseismology |
| Monday, September 15 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| Monday, September 22 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| Monday, September 29 | Gregory Carmichael | University of Iowa | What Goes Around Comes Around: The Globalization of Air Pollution |
| Monday, October 06 (Note: Colloquium will be on Tuesday, October 07 | John Mather | NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center | Science From The Sky: How Did We Get Here, Who Are We, How Far Can We Go? |
| Monday, October 13 | Stephen Fuselier | Southwest Research Institute | Exiting the Heliosphere: Which Way Would We Go? |
| Monday, October 20 | John Prineas | University of Iowa | The Art and Science of Molecular Beam Epitaxy, and The 2014 Nobel Prize for Blue LEDs |
| Monday, October 27 | Albert Ratner | University of Iowa | Combustion in Modern Systems |
| Monday, November 03 | Thomas Kuhlman | University of Illinois | The Physics of Gene Regulation and Decision Making in E. Coli |
| Monday, November 10 | Lee Anne Willson | Iowa State University | The Death of Stars Like the Sun (what we know and don't know) |
| Monday, November 17 | Stewart Prager | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | The Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy |
| Monday, November 24 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | ---------- | no colloquium |
| Monday, December 01 | Jane Nachtman | University of Iowa | Dark Matter in the Laboratory |
| Monday, December 08 | Fatima Toor | University of Iowa | Engineering Physics for Designing Multi-colored Light Sources and Detectors |