| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 15 Sep | Hang Liu | Redesigning Lattice QCD, Peter Lepage. |
| 22 Sep | Hayrullo Shoniyozov | Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Comes of Age, Carleton DeTar and Steven Gottlieb, Physics Today 57(2), 45 (2004). |
| 29 Sep | Shaleen Shukla | "From Monte Carlo Integration to Quantum Chromodynamics", by Massimo Di Pierro, Sections 4.1 and 4.2 (pages 31-37). A link to the article is available below under "Backgroundi Information". |
| 6 Oct | Deepshikha Choudhury | Lattice QCD meets experiment in hadron physics, Christine Davies and Peter Lepage, Review talk given at Hadron 03: 10th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Aschaffenburg, Germany, 31 Aug - 6 Sep 2003. |
| 13 Oct | Moses Oginni | 7Be(p, gamma)8B Astrophysical S Factor from Precision Cross Section Measurements, A. R. Junghans et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 041101 (2002). |
| 20 Oct | Catalin Matei | High Precision Measurement of the Superallowed 0+-->0+ beta Decay of 22Mg, J. C. Hardy et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 082501 (2003). |
| 27 Oct | Rafail Yarulin | Direct measurement of the neutron-neutron scattering cross section at the reactor YAGUAR, W. I. Furman et al., J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 28, 2627-2641 (2002). |
| 3 Nov | Sedar Kizilgul | 21Na(p,gamma)22Mg Reaction and Oxygen-Neon Novae, S. Bishop et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 162501 (2003). |
| 10 Nov | Zach Heinen | 2004 Physics
Nobel Prizes David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek: "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" Reading: Advanced Information |