| Date | Speaker | Status | Topic |
| Jan 21 | Charlie Conroy | Job Candidate | The Stellar Initial Mass Function Is Not Universal |
| | Administration | | Speaker Sign-Up |
| Jan 28 | Eugene Chiang | F | Inflating Hot Jupiters with Ohmic Dissipation (Batygin & Stevenson, 2010) |
| | Chat Hull | G | Probing Reionization with Intensity Mapping of Molecular and Fine Structure Lines (Gong et al, 2011)
An intensity map of hydrogen 21-cm emission at redshift z ≈ 0.8 (Chang et al, 2010) |
| Feb 4 | Lucianne Walkowicz | P | Getting Started with Kepler Data |
| | Therese Jones | G | Physics of Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes (Cen, 2011) |
| Feb 11 | Dave DeBoer | R | Intensity mapping of molecular gas during cosmic reionization (Carilli, 2011) |
| | Sloane Wiktorowicz | P | Images of a fourth planet orbiting HR 8799 (Marois et al., 2010) |
| Feb 18 | Phil Hopkins | P | Feedback in Luminous Obscured Quasars (Greene et al., 2011) |
| | Mike Wong | R | Oxygen flux in the solar wind: Ulysses observations (von Steiger et al., 2010) |
| Feb 25 | Brendon Brewer | Visitor | Non-JC visitor seminar: “Direct Modelling of Reverberation Mapping Data” |
| Mar 4 | | | No journal club; prospective student visit |
| Mar 11 | Peter Williams | G | Insights into the High-energy γ-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era (Abdo et al., 2011) |
| | Nathan Roth | G | Three-dimensional simulation of massive star formation in the disk accretion scenario (Kuiper et al., 2011) |
| Mar 18 | Ken Shen | P | Prelude to a double degenerate merger: the onset of mass transfer and its impact on gravitational waves and surface detonations (Dan et al., 2011) |
| | Mo Ganesh | G | Broad-Line Reverberation in the Kepler-Field Seyfert Galaxy ZW 229-015 (Barth et al., 2011) |
| Mar 25 | | | No Journal Club: Spring Break |
| Apr 1 | Josh Bloom | F | Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes (Giannios & Metzger, 2011) |
| | Jacob Lynn | G | Evidence for Particle Acceleration to the Knee of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum in Tycho's Supernova Remnant (Eriksen et al., 2011) |
| Apr 8 | Amber Bauermeister | G | Testing the comet nature of main belt comets. The spectra of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR (Licandro et al., 2011) |
| | | | cancellation |
| Apr 15 | Josiah Schwab | G | Supernova Fallback onto Magnetars and Propeller-Powered Supernovae (Piro & Ott, 2011) |
| | Matt George | G | Water Masers in the Andromeda Galaxy: The First Step Toward Proper Motion (Darling, 2011) |
| Apr 22 | Meredith Hughes | P | IR variability in disks with gaps and holes: caused by planets? (Espaillat et al, 2011) |
| | Jonnie Pober | G | The first (nearly) model-independent constraint on the neutral hydrogen fraction at z~5--6 (McGreer et al., 2011) |
| Apr 29 | Máté Ádámkovics | Rockstar | On the formation location of Uranus and Neptune as constrained by dynamical and chemical models of comets (Kavelaars et al., 2011) |
| | | | TBD |