| Date | Faculty Speaker | Research Topic |
| 15 January |
No seminar |
None |
| 22 January |
No seminar |
None |
| 29 January |
Prof. Richard Hazeltine |
The Challenge of Fusion Energy! |
| 5 February |
Prof. Mike Marder |
Bending Rules: Metrics in Thin Sheets! |
| 12 February |
No speaker |
None |
| 19 February |
Prof. Ken Gentle |
Hot Plasmas--- When a system is not near thermodynamic equilbrium! |
| 26 February |
Prof. Wendell Horton |
Solar Eruptions Drive Storms in the Earth's Magnetosphere! |
| 4 March |
Prof. Mike Downer |
The world's smallest GeV particle accelerator! |
| 18 March |
Prof. Jim Chelikowsky |
Exploring the Nanoworld with Computers! |
| 25 March |
Prof. Gennady Shvets |
MetaMaterials: Science and Applications! |
| 1 April |
No seminar |
None |
| 8 April |
No seminar |
None |
| 15 April |
No seminar |
None |
| 22 April |
Prof. Sacha Kopp |
Opportunities in Accelerator Physics! |
| 29 April |
Prof. Ken Shih |
Semiconductor quantum dot-based quantum information processing! |
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