| September 11 | Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech) Birth of the Universe |
| September 18 | Stephane Udry (Geneva) The Geneva Continuing Search for Extra-solar Planets |
| September 25 | Frank Bash (UTexas) Town Meeting |
| October 9 | Sheila Kannappan (UTexas) Kinematic Clues to the Formation & Evolution of Galaxies |
| October 16 | MUC Meeting: Open to Everyone |
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| October 30 | Roeland van der Marel (STScI) The Intrinsic Shape and Tidal Distortion of the LMC |
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| November 13 | George Wallerstein (Washington) Omega Centauri as a Captured Galaxy |
| November 20 | Daniel Thomas (Munich) Epochs of Formation for Elliptical Galaxies |
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| December 6 | Tim de Zeeuw (Leiden) The SAURON Project: Integral field spectroscopy of galaxies |
| December 11 | Tom Geballe (Gemini) Brown Dwarfs: From Speculation to Observation to Classification |
| January 15 | Jim Lawler (University of Wisconsin) Laboratory Astrophysics for Precise Elemental Abundance Determinations |
| January 22 | Carl Akerlof (University of Michigan) The ROTSE Project: Small Telescopes and Distant Flashes |
| January 29 | Joel Primack (University of California, Santa Cruz) Cold Dark Matter Cosmology -- A Status Report |
| February 7 | Romeel Dave (University of Arizona) The History of Intergalactic Baryons |
| February 14 | James Bullock (Ohio State University) Probing Cosmology using the Milky Way and the Local Group |
| February 19 | Asantha Cooray (Caltech) Life After Acoustic Peaks |
| February 21 | Zoltan Haiman (Princeton University) Probing the End of the Cosmological Dark Ages |
| February 26 | S. Peng Oh (Caltech) The First Luminous Objects |
| March 5 | reserved |
| March 12 | Thomas Henning (Jena) Formation of Massive Stars |
| March 19 | reserved |
| March 26 | Gordon MacAlpine (Trinity University) Contemplating Crabs and Quasars |
| April 2 | Namir Kassim (NRL) Opening a New Window on the Electromagnetic Spectrum: The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) |
| April 9 | Jeffrey Bennett (Colorado) Strategies for Teaching Science |
| April 10 | Jason Glenn (Colorado) Probing the High Redshift Universe: Planned Millimeter-Wave Surveys for Galaxies |
| April 16 | Russel White (University of Texas) Formation of the Lowest Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs |
| April 23 | Rob Kennicutt (University of Arizona) SIRTF SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey |
| April 30 | Victoria Kaspi (McGill University) Anomalous X-ray Pulsars |
| May 7 | Paul vanden Bout (NRAO) The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope -- An Adventure in Science and Politics |