| Date | Presenters and paper |
| January 8 | Jordan and Sarah |
| "Evolution of Block Copolymer Lithography to Highly Ordered Square Arrays", Tang et al., Science, 322, 429(2008) | |
| (See also News and Views article in Nature) | |
| January 15 | Kim and Adam |
| "fMRI evidence for sensorimotor transformations in human cortex during smooth pursuit eye movements", Kimmig, H. et al., 2008, Neuropsychologia 46 (Vol. 8), pg 2203 | |
| Some additional background information can be found here (most of the document is in English) | |
| January 22 | Corey, David, and Melissa |
| "Observation of optimal gecko's adhesion on nanorough surfaces", N. Pugno and E. Lepore, 2008, BioSystems, 94, 218 | |
| January 29 | No class: Physics 4P06/4L03 poster session |
| (Outlines for research paper due during poster session) | |
| February 5 | Christine |
| discussion of "The end of the Age of Oil" by David Goodstein (if possible attend colloquium Feb. 4, 3:20) | |
| February 12 | Billee and Emily |
| "High precision geometry of a double-pole pulstar", M. Kramer and S. Johnston, 2008, Mon. Not R. Astron. Soc. 390, 87-92 | |
| February 19 | NO CLASS (Reading week) |
| February 26 | Martin |
| "The strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma created at RHIC", U. W. Heinz, arXiv:0810.5529v1 | |
| (writeup of an invited talk given at the International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems 2008; to appear in a special issue of Journal of Physics A; accessible from http://xxx.lanl.gov/ ) | |
| March 5 | Research papers due; NO CLASS (Christine is away) |
| March 12 - April 2 | Research paper presentations; (see separate schedule) |