| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 16 Jan | Ken Hicks | Meson Resonances (reading from handout) |
| 23 Jan | Remi Adekola | Dalitz Plots (reading from handout) |
| 30 Jan | Dan Sayre | Statistical Analysis. The required reading is Pentaquark Searches, Ken Hicks, arXiv:hep-ph/0703004v3, Proceedings of the Hypernuclear 2006 Conference. See also the paper on pentaquark signals listed below under background reading. |
| 6 Feb | Moses Oginni | Laser Backscattering. The required reading is Laser Compton back-scattering gamma-ray beamline on NewSUBARU, Shuji Miyamoto et al., Radiation Measurements 41 - Supplement 2, S179-S185 (2006). See also the background readings below. |
| 13 Feb | Andreas Schiller | Parity Measurements of Nuclear Levels Using a Free-Electron-Laser Generated gamma-Ray Beam, N. Pietralla et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 012502 (2001). |
| 20 Feb | Anton Wiranata | Island of Rare Earth Nuclei with Tetrahedral and Octahedral Symmetries: Possible Experimental Evidence, J. Dudek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 072501 (2006). |
| 27 Feb | Ting Lin | Asymptotic freedom as a spin effect, N. K. Nielsen, American Journal of Physics 49(12), 1171-1178 (1981). |
| 5 March | Sergey Postnikov | Asymptotic Freedom. The reading comes from the same paper as the previous week. |
| 12 March | Kellen Murphy | "Glueballs": results and perspectives from the lattice, Gunnar S. Bali, Talk presented at Photon 2001, Ascona, CH, 2.9. - 7.9.01, arXiv:hep-ph/0110254v1 (2001). |