Nikolai Tolich	"Neutrinos from Heaven and Hell", June 25, 2012
Kai-Mei Fu	"Optical spintronics for quantum information processing and magnetic sensing", July 2, 2012
Marjorie Olmstead	"Transparent Conductors and Semiconducting Magnets: Oxymorons or Interesting Physics?", July 9, 2012
Andreas Karch	"Particle Theory in the 21st Century", July 16, 2012
Boris Blinov	"Trapped Ion Quantum Computing", July 23, 2012
David Cobden	"Nanodevice Physics", July 30, 2012
Alejandro Garcia	"Searching for New Physics in the Nucleus", August 6, 2012