| Speaker | Date | Title |
| Cooke, Ryan | 05/08/2013 | The Most Metal-poor Damped Lyman-alpha Systems and Early Nucleosynthesis |
| Tarter, Jill | 05/02/2013 | Observational SETI Today and Tomorrow: New Strategies and Instrumentation for SETI and Radio Astronomy |
| Okano, Sho | 04/24/2013 | Collaborative IfA-Tohoku Planetary Observations at Haleakala with 40cm, 60cm, and PLANETS telescopes |
| Stanek, Kris | 04/17/2013 | Drinking Coffee, Writing Papers |
| Kissler-Patig, Markus | 04/10/2013 | New Opportunities with the Gemini Observatory |
| Mendez, Roberto | 04/03/2013 | Understanding the Eskimo |
| Youdin, Andrew | 03/28/2013 | The Origin of Planetesimals |
| Carter, Joshua | 03/04/2013 | Photodynamics: revealing the secrets of the lowest-mass planets and stars |
| Lu, Jessica | 02/28/2013 | Star Formation in Extreme Environments |
| Walker, Matthew | 02/25/2013 | Galactic Dynamics and the Nature of Dark Matter |
| Kratter, Kaitlin | 02/19/2013 | The Formation and Evolution of Multiple Stellar Systems |
| Kirby, Evan | 02/14/2013 | The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies |
| Mainzer, Amy | 02/13/2013 | Update on NEOWISE: Getting to Know Earth's Nearest Neighbors |
| Froning, Cynthia | 02/07/2013 | Revealing Cosmic Origins: from Exoplanet Atmospheres to the Intergalactic Medium with the HST/COS |
| Fox, Ori | 02/05/2013 | A View of Supernovae (and Other Transients) Through Infrared Eyes |
| Law, Nicholas | 01/31/2013 | Building and Using a New Generation of Sky Surveys |
| Konidaris, Nicholas | 01/22/2013 | Initial Results from MOSFIRE |
| Prochaska, Jason | 01/16/2013 | Quasars Probing Quasars |
| Baranec, Christophe | 01/15/2013 | Science and new opportunities with the Robo-AO automated laser adaptive optics system |
| Mushotzky, Richard | 01/09/2013 | Early Results from the Herschel Survey of Hard X-ray Selected AGN |
| Egami, Eiichi | 12/12/2012 | Reverse Engineering Space-Time |
| Stebbins, Albert | 12/05/2012 | Reverse Engineering Space-Time |
| Venkatesan, Aparna | 11/28/2012 | Signatures of Hard Ionizing Radiation from the First Galaxies |
| Desert, Jean-Michel | 11/21/2012 | From statistics to individual characterization of exoplanets |
| Governato, Fabio | 11/14/2012 | Cusps, cores and baryons: Or how Cold Dark Matter is the worst model of galaxy formation, except for all the others |
| Cappelluti, Nico | 11/07/2012 | Clustering of the Cosmic X-ray Background sources and surface brightness: inspecting beyond limit of current X-ray surveys |
| Prato, Lisa | 10/31/2012 | The Promise of Young Spectroscopic Binaries |
| Jorgensen, Regina | 10/24/2012 | Damped Lyman alpha Systems (DLAs): The most well-understood, enigmatic galaxies |
| Gonzalez, Anthony | 10/19/2012 | Galaxy Clusters at z=1-2: An Infrared View |
| Muirhead, Philip | 10/10/2012 | Small Stars with Small Planets and Big Consequences |
| Bindi, Veronica | 10/03/2012 | Status of the AMS-02 detector after one year of operation on the International Space Station |
| Wright, Shelley | 09/27/2012 | Studying Galaxies in the Early Universe with Innovative Adaptive Optics Instrumentation |
| Cote, Patrick | 09/19/2012 | The Next Generation CFHT: A Wide-field Spectroscopic Facility for the Coming Decade |
| Fitzsimmons, Alan | 09/12/2012 | NEOShield: How do we move an asteroid? |
| Quider, Valentin | 08/23/2012 | The Federal Budget and How Scientists Can Influence It |
| Martinez Pillet, Anna | 08/14/2012 | The Quiet Sun as observed by the 1m balloon borne SUNRISE telescope |
| Hilton, Eric | 01/18/2012 | Characteristics of M Dwarf Stars: Exoplanet Implications |
| Shirley, Yancy | 01/25/2012 | The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey - A Census of Embedded Star Formation in the Milky Way |
| Petric, Andreea | 02/01/2012 | Mid-Infrared and Millimeter Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies |
| Chauvin, Michael | 02/08/2012 | The 1874 transit of Venus expedition to Hawaii |
| Howard, Andrew | 02/09/2012 | Origins and Properties of Super-Earths and Neptune-size Planets |
| Benson, Andrew | 02/013/2012 | Galaxy Formation Theory: The Next Decade |
| Mainzer, Amy | 02/16/2012 | The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer: Greatest Hits |
| Cenko, Brad | 02/21/2012 | The Time Domain Renaissance: From Gamma-Ray Bursts to Advanced LIGO |
| Dodson-Robinson, Sarah | 02/23/2012 | Planetary Archaeology in Space and Time |
| Boylan-Kolchin, Michael | 02/24/2012 | Dark Matter and the Milky Way's Satellites |
| Stark, Dan | 03/01/2012 | The Nature of Early Star Forming Galaxies |
| Krumholz, Mark | 03/05/2012 | The Origin of the Initial Mass Function |
| Batygin, Konstantin | 03/08/2012 | Orbits and Interiors of Extrasolar Planets |
| Macri, Lucas | 03/14/2012 | The Cepheid Distance Scale in the Era of Precision Cosmology |
| Voit, Mark | 03/19/2012 | Triggering of Feedback in Galaxy Cluster Cores |
| Bond, Richard | 03/21/2012 | Revealing the Cosmic Information in Clusters through the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect |
| Kirby, Evan | 03/28/2012 | Galactic and Stellar Evolution with Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy |
| Martin, Chris | 04/12/2012 | GALEX: Mapping the Hidden Side of Galaxy Evolution and the UV Universe |
| Ellis, Richard | 04/20/2012 | Obesity in the Universe: How Fast Can Early-Type Galaxies Grow? |
| Hasinger, Guenther | 04/25/2012 | Cosmic Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Joseph, Bob | 05/02/2012 | Babylonian Astronomy |
| Sobral, David | 05/09/2012 | The 11 Gyr Evolution of Star-forming galaxies |
| Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe | 05/24/2012 | From frozen Super Earth to Habitable Earth via microlensing |
| Taylor, Jeff | 05/30/2012 | Water and Volatiles as Tracers of Lunar Formation, Differentiation, and Bombardment |
| Neyrinck, Mark | 06/06/2012 | How Wrinkles form in the Universe and How to Deal with their Information-Sabotage |
| Krautter, Joachim | 06/14/2012 | X-ray Observations of Novae |
| Leitherer, Claus | 06/26/2012 | Galaxies as Laboratories for Studying Stellar Evolution |
| Davis, Gary | 09/07/2011 | The UK telescopes on Mauna Kea: breaking news and future prospects |
| Casey, Caitlin | 09/14/2011 | Taking Census of Extreme, Infrared-Bright Starbursts from z=0-6: Implications for Dust Enshrouded Star Formation and the Evolution of Major Mergers |
| Beletic, James | 09/26/2011 | Imaging Sensor Technologies for Astronomy, Planetary Exploration & Earth Observation |
| Jefferies, Stuart | 10/12/2011 | Getting the most out of your large-aperture, ground-based telescope |
| Fox, Derek | 10/19/2011 | Bursts of Light from the Cosmic Dawn |
| Meech, Karen | 10/26/2011 | Origin of Earth's Water |
| McKee, Chris | 11/02/2011 | The Formation of Massive Stars |
| Squires, Gordon | 11/09/2011 | A Unique Place and a Unique Time: Revealing the Hidden Universe with Spitzer, Herschel, WISE, GALEX, Kepler, Planck and ... Astronomy's Next-Generation Observatory - TMT |
| Hinkley, Sasha | 11/16/2011 | Comparative Exoplanetary Science Through Direct Imaging |
| Ellison, Sara | 11/23/2011 | Gas flows in galaxies: mergers versus bars |
| Woo, Jong-Hak | 12/02/2011 | Cosmic evolution of black holes and galaxies |
| Tonry, John | 12/15/2011 | The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Werk, Jessica | 12/19/2011 | Finding Galactic Metals in Unusual Places |
| Lu, Jessica | 01/19/2011 | Clarifying our View of Star Formation in Extreme Environments with Adaptive Optics |
| Narita, Norio | 01/26/2011 | Aligned, tilted, retrograde exoplanets and their migration mechanisms |
| Greve, Thomas | 02/02/2011 | The nature of the newly discovered population of extremely bright submillimeter galaxies |
| Sheth, Kartik | 02/09/2011 | The Starring Role of Bars in Understanding Galaxy Evolution: Results from S4G, COSMOS, DEEP2 and AEGIS |
| Agol, Eric | 02/16/2011 | New techniques for studying extrasolar planets |
| Chun, Mark | 02/23/2011 | The atmosphere above Mauna Kea: all you wanted to know and dealing with the unknown unknowns |
| Bradac, Marusa | 03/02/2011 | Dark Matter and First Galaxies Light Up |
| Gottloeber, Stefan | 03/08/2011 | Near field cosmology with CLUES (Constrained Local UniversE Simulations) |
| Malkan, Matt | 03/16/2011 | New Observational Approaches to Galaxy Evolution Surveys |
| Mushotzky, Richard | 03/23/2011 | Recent Results from the Swift BAT Very Hard X-ray Survey |
| Sobral, David | 03/30/2011 | The Star-formation History of the Universe and its Drivers in the Last 11 Gyrs |
| Businger, Steven | 04/06/2011 | The Mauna Kea Weather Center: Custom Atmospheric Forecasting Support for Mauna Kea |
| Bland-Hawthorn, Joss | 04/13/2011 | The HERMES project - reconstructing the ancient Galaxy |
| Courteau, Stephane | 04/18/2011 | The Luminosity Profile of the Andromeda Galaxy |
| Stiavelli, Massimo | 04/20/2011 | Observing the epoch of reionization with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes |
| Trump, Jonathan | 04/25/2011 | Not all AGNs are created equal: How galaxies feed and obscure their SMBHs. |
| Reipurth, Bo | 05/04/2011 | The Dynamical Evolution of Newborn Triple Systems |
| Borucki, William | 05/13/2011 | Kepler Mission: An Overview of Science Results |
| Hunter, Lisa | 05/18/2011 | Enhancing the professional skills of graduate students and postdocs |
| Chapman, Scott | 05/23/2011 | Point sources in the South Pole Telescope 2000sq deg survey: characterizing the dusty starforming galaxies |
| Imanishi, Masa | 06/01/2011 | Luminous buried AGNs and the AGN-starburst connections in the local universe |
| Rothberg, Barry | 09/08/2010 | The Impact of Star-Formation and Gas Dissipation on Galaxy Kinematics |
| Wainscoat, Richard | 09/15/2010 | Protection of Hawaii's Observatories from Light Pollution |
| Kraus, Adam | 09/23/2010 | The Demographics of Young Planetary Systems |
| Melbourne, Jason | 09/28/2010 | Black Hole Growth and Star Formation in z=2 Dust Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) |
| Guhathakurta, Raja | 10/05/2010 | Cannibalism and Forensics in our Galactic Neighborhood |
| Reddy, Naveen | 10/06/2010 | Evolution of Dust Obscuration and Its Implications for Galaxy Growth |
| Bernstein, Rebecca | 10/13/2010 | Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Star Clusters |
| Hamann, Wolf-Rainer | 10/20/2010 | Massive stars and their winds |
| Blake, Geoffrey | 10/27/2010 | Water Vapor and Organics in the Planet-Forming Region of Circumstellar Disks |
| Itoh, Naoki | 11/03/2010 | Seeing galaxy clusters through CMB: Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect |
| Windhorst, Rogier | 11/10/2010 | Observing supermassive black-hole growth with HST and JWST: When during galaxy assembly did AGN growth take place? |
| Chambers, Ken | 11/17/2010 | Early Science with PS1 |
| Fassnacht, Chris | 11/29/2010 | Dark and Luminous Matter at Moderate Redshifts |
| Habbal, Shadia | 12/08/2010 | Total Solar Eclipses and the Physics of the Solar Corona: The Case of Heavy Ion Spies |
| Zakamska, Nadia | 12/15/2010 | Obscured Quasars |
| Endl, Michael | 01/22/2010 | Exoplanets From Outer Space |
| Laughlin, Greg | 01/27/2010 | Major Updates to the Galactic Planetary Census |
| Landis, Rob | 02/01/2010 | Between the Moon and Mars: The NEO Facto |
| Esser, Ruth | 02/10/2010 | The Solar Chromosphere, Corona and Wind: Observations and Theory |
| Aharonson, Oded | 02/17/2010 | Titan's Lakes: Croll-Milankovitch and seasonal methane cycles |
| Burkert, Andreas | 02/24/2010 | Titan's Lakes: Croll-Milankovitch and seasonal methane cycles |
| Miyaji, Takamitsu | 02/26/2010 | Clustering of Broad-line X-ray AGNs from RASS-SDSS |
| Tran, Kim-Vy | 03/03/2010 | The Spitzer/MIPS Infra-Red Cluster Survey (SMIRCS) |
| Hamaguchi, Kenji | 03/09/2010 | Eta Carinae Superstar |
| Kuhn, Jeff | 03/17/2010 | Observational night-time solar physics: using tools and models learned from our Sun to understand other Suns |
| Zuckerman, Ben | 03/24/2010 | Evidence for Rocks and Rocky Planets: From the Zero-age Main Sequence to White Dwarfs |
| Cowie, Len | 04/07/2010 | Heineman Prize Lecture |
| Sobral, David | 04/14/2010 | HiZELS survey |
| Kudritzki, Rolf | 04/28/2010 | Schwarzchild Prize Lecture |
| Siana, Brian | 05/12/2010 | Were Galaxies Able to Reionize the Universe Measuring the Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction With Hubble |