| Date | Presenters and paper |
| Jan 5 | #1 Judi and Steve |
| "Dancing Volvox: Hydrodynamic Bound States of Swimming Algae", K. Drescher et al., 2009, Physical Review Letters (PRL), 102, 168101 | |
| #2 Ash and Brittany | |
| "Star clusters around recoiled black holes in the Milky Way halo", Ryan M. O'Leary and Abraham Loeb, 2009, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 395, 781 | |
| Jan 12 | #1 Charmaine and Amit |
| "Early detection of premalignant changes in cell cultures using light-induced fluorescence spectroscopy", E. Bogomolny et al., 2009, Eur Biophys J, 38, 971-980 | |
| #2 Scott and Jordy | |
| "Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals", J. Itatani et al., 2004, Nature, 432, 867 | |
| Jan 19 | #1 Sara and Michael A. |
| "Magnetic Field Reversals, Polar Wander, and Core-Mantle Coupling" Vincent Courtillot and Jean Besse, 1987, Science, 237, 1140 | |
| #2 Sean, Marlon, and Radhika | |
| "Naked Singularities", P. S. Joshi, Scientific American; February 2009, Vol. 300, Issue 2, p36 | |
| Jan 26 | #1 Uzair and James |
| "Quantum Solution to the Arrow-of-Time Dilemma", L. Maccone, 2009, Phys. Rev. Lett, 103, 080401-1 | |
| Feb 2 | #1 Greg, Kelsey, and Russell |
| "Two distinct sequences of blue straggler stars in the globular cluster M30" F. Ferraro et al., 2009, Nature, 462, 1028 | |
| #2 Jeff and Kyle N. | |
| "Quantum Cryptography Based on Bell's Theorem", 1991, A. K. Ekert, Phys. Rev. Lett, 67, 661 | |
| Feb 9 | #1 Marcel |
| "Nanofabricated media with negative permeability at visible frequencies", 2005, A. N. Grigorenko et al., Nature, 438, 335 | |
| #2 Erik and Sean K. | |
| "The Cyclic Universe: An Informal Introduction", 2003, R. Steinhardt and N. Turok, Nuclear Physics B. 124, 38-49 | |
| Feb 16 | Reading Week |
| Feb 23 | #1 Maxim and Sami |
| "Shear thickening in colloidal dispersions" N. J. Wagner and J. F. Brady, 2009, Physics Today, 62, 27 (October) | |
| #2 Dan and Katie | |
| "Experimental Evidence of Antiproton Reflection By a Solid Surface", Bianconi et al. (2008). Physical Review A, 78, 022506 | |
| #3 Brandon and Michael D. | |
| "Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics", N. Ginsberg et al., 2007, Nature, 445, p623 | |
| March 2 - April 6 | Research paper presentations: see schedule |