| September 16 | David Burrows, Penn State U. |
| Title: " The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer: Early Views into Black Hole Creation" | |
| Host: T.W. Jones | |
| September 23 | Department picnic |
| September 30 | David Kohlstedt, U. Minnesota, Geology |
| Title: "Shearing Melt out of the Mantle: The Relation Among Mantle Flow, Melt Migration, and Seismic Anistropy" | |
| Host: T.W. Jones | |
| October 14 | Richard McCray, U. Colorado |
| Title: "SN1987A: The Birth of a Supernova Remnant" | |
| Host: R.D. Gehrz | |
| October 21 | Mark Lacy, Caltech, Spitzer Science Center |
| Title: "Dust obscured quasars in Spitzer's Extragalactic First Look Survey" | |
| Host: E. Ryan | |
| October 26 | Mike DuVernois, U. Minnesota, Physics, (Physics & Astronomy Seminar) |
| (Wednesday) | |
| October 28 | Jan Vrtilek, Harvard-Smithsonian, CfAK |
| Title: "Chandra and XMM View Galaxy Groups: Sharper Images, New Insights" | |
| Host: K. Delain | |
| November 4 | Wil Van Breugel, U. California, LLNLT |
| Title: "Radio Galaxies: Near and Far" | |
| Host: T.W. Jones | |
| November 11 | George Wallerstein, U. Washington |
| Title: "The Color-Magnitude Diagram and Metallicity of the Unusual Globular Cluster NGC 6388" | |
| Host: R. Humphreys | |
| November 18 | John Samson, U. Alberta |
| Title: "Nonlinear Magnetohydrodynamic Stability and Instabilities in the Earth's magnetosphere and astrophysical magnetospheres" | |
| Host: R. Lysak | |
| November 25 | No Colloquium - Thanksgiving |
| November 30 | Charles Woodward, U. Minnesota, Astronomy, (Physics & Astronomy Seminar) |
| (Wednesday) | Title: "DEEP IMPACT - A Probe of Comet Structure and Origins" |
| December 2 | Alan Shapiro, U. Minnesota, Physics and History of Science and Technology |
| Title: "From the Heavens to the Earth: Newton's Optical Investigations" | |
| December 9 | Kevin Rauch, U. Maryland |
| Title: "Black Holes in AGN" abstract | |
| Host: L. Williams |