| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 10 Sep | Andreas Schiller | The Shell Model, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Lecture, 12 December 1963. |
| 17 Sep | Dan Sayre | Radioactive Beam Facilities: Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN (RIBF), Tohru Motobayashi and Yasushige Yano, Nuclear Physics News 17(4), 5-10 (2007). |
| 24 Sep | Rakitha Beminiwattha | Radioactive Beam Facilities: Measurement of a Complete Set of Nuclides, Cross Sections, and Kinetic Energies in Spallation of 238U 1A GeV with Protons, P. Armbruster et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 212701 (2004). |
| 1 Oct | Ken Hicks | A Trip Inside The "Big Bang Machine": 60 Minutes Visits One Of The Biggest Science Experiments Ever, The Large Hadron Collider (28 September 2008). Here is a printable version. |
| 8 Oct | Justin Frantz | Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (General Intro): The First Few Microseconds, Michael Riordan and William A. Zajc, Scientific American, May 2006. |
| 15 Oct | Anton Wiranata | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: PHENIX Experiment Scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV, Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 162301 (2007). Also available on arXiv archive server. |
| 22 Oct | Buddhini Waidyawansa | RHIC Spin Longitudinal Double-Spin Asymmetry and Cross Section for Inclusive Jet Production in Polarized Proton Collisions at SQRT(s)=200 GeV, by the STAR Collaboration, Abelev et al., (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 252001 (2006). Also available on arXiv archive server. A little more bkg: the paper is short and dense, Justin recommends also having a quick look at 1) A brief web-based introductory document here, or 2) for more detail but also better explanations, an formal introduction/review: Prospects for SPIN Physics at RHIC, by Bunce et al., esp. the first ~8 pages. |
| 29 Oct | Chieh Jen Yang | Nobel Prizes: Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa. |
| 5 Nov | Binay Prasai | LHC I Early days: The challenges of the LHC, ATLAS: The making of a giant, and LHCb: A question of asymmetry. |
| 12 Nov | Chen Ji | LHC II The high-energy frontier. |