| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title of Talk |
| Monday, January 27 | Steven R. Spangler | University of Iowa | Physics of Bright Nebulae in the Milky Way Galaxy |
| Monday, February 03 | Alexei Bazavov | University of Iowa | From Colorless to Colorful |
| Monday, February 10 | Jerald L. Schnoor | University of Iowa | Responding to Climate Change |
| Monday, February 17 | Michael Brown | Swarthmore College | Is There a Universal Character of Plasma Turbulence? |
| Monday, February 24 | Benjamin Murdin | University of Surrey | Laboratory Spectroscopy of White Dwarf Stars and Quantum Information Processing in Silicon (they really do have something in common!) |
| Wednesday, February 26 | Brian Anderson | Johns Hopkins University | MESSENGER at Mercury: Solving the riddles of the innermost planet in our solar system |
| Monday, March 3 | Harald Kucharek | University of New Hampshire | Probing the Boundaries of our Solar System |
| Wednesday, March 5 | Kelly Korreck | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | Extreme Views of the Sun |
| Monday, March 10 | Jasper Halekas | University of California, Berkeley | The Lunar Wake: a natural plasma physics laboratory |
| Monday, March 17 | SPRING BREAK | no colloquium | ----------- |
| Monday, March 24 | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| Monday, March 31 | Robert Mutel | University of Iowa | The Faint Young Sun Paradox: An Unsolved Solar System Enigma |
| Monday, April 7 | Michael E. Flatte | University of Iowa | Computing with Quantum Coherence: Is Quantum Computing a Real Technology or a Mirage? |
| Monday, April 14 | Bradley Shadwick | University of Nebraska | Hamilton Meets a Computer |
| Monday, April 21 | ---------- | no colloquium | ---------- |
| Monday, April 28 | Jerome Daligault | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Half Metal, Half Plasma: the Physics of Hot, Dense Matter |
| Monday, May 5 | Annual Awards Colloquium | -------------- | -------------- |