| Date | Presenters and paper |
| January 8 | Ben and Adam |
| (also News of the week) | A quantum adiabatic algorithm applied to instances of an NP-Complete Problem, Farhi et al., Science, 292, 472-476 (2001) |
| January 8 #2 | Emma and Tara |
| (also News&Views) | Autonomic Healing of Polymer Composites, White et al., Nature, 409, 794-797 (2001) |
| January 15 | Rob and Nick |
| EGFP-tagged core and linker histones diffuse via distinct mechanisms within living cells, D. Bhattacharya et al., Biophys. Journal, 91, p2326-2446 (Sept 2006) | |
| January 15 #2 | Jen and Amanda |
| (Also Perspectives) | Constraints on Neon and Argon Isotopic Fractionation in Solar Wind, A. Meshik et al., Science, 318, 433 (2007) |
| January 22 | General discussion on paper from Rob and Nick's presentation: |
| HeLa cells 50 years on: the good, the bad, and the ugly, J. R. Masters, 2002, Nature Reviews Cancer, 2, 315-319 (2002) | |
| January 29 | no regular class; students are encouraged to attend the Physics 4P06/4L03 poster session 2-4 pm ABB273 |
| February 5 | NO CLASS (Christine is away) |
| February 12 | Mohamed and Amandeep |
| The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics: Giant Magnetoresistance Scientific Background paper | |
| February 19 | NO CLASS (Reading week) |
| February 26 | Ann and Chad |
| Tests of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law below the Dark Energy Length Scale, D. J.Kapner et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 021101 (2007) | |
| February 26 #2 | Katie and Dan |
| The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VI: Discovery and Analysis of a Double Einstein Ring, Gavazzi et al., 2008, http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1555 | |
| See also Rings around the Lenses, M. Chiao, Nature Physics 4, 98 - 98 (01 Feb 2008) News and Views | |
| March 4 | Bing and Peter |
| Optical Rogue Waves, D. Solli et al., Nature, 450, 1054 (2007) | |
| March 4 #2 | Yurij and Jordan |
| "The Cosmic Web in our own Backyard", Rodrigo A. Ibata and Geriant F. Lewis. Science, Jan 4 2008, vol. 319, 50-52 | |
| March 11 | NO CLASS (Christine is away) |
| March 18 - April 8 | Research paper presentations |
| (See separate schedule) |