January 31, 2012	Dr. Marina S. Leite CNST, National Institute for Standard and Technologies	"A New Paradigm for > 50% Photovoltaic Efficiencies"
February 7, 2012	Dr. Igor Smolyaninov University of Maryland	"Physics of Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Novel Fundamental Science and Applications"
February 14, 2012	Dr. Dan Gordon Naval Research Laboratory	"Full Scale Numerical Modeling of Photoionization"
February 21, 2012	Prof. Chris Davis University of Maryland	"Optical Properties of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays"
February 28, 2012	Dr. Gurudas Ganguli Naval Research Laboratory	"Orbital Debris Remediation by Hypervelocity Dust Impact"
March 6, 2012	Dr. Gerry Skinner University of Maryland/NASA	"Diffractive Optics for Micro-Arc-Second X-ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomical Imaging"
March 13, 2012	Dr. Jingyun Fan NIST	"Creation and Usage of Few Photons"
March 20, 2012	No Seminar, Spring Break	--
March 27, 2012	Prof. Alan Bristow West Virginia University	"Terahertz Sources, Waveguides, and Microscopes"
April 3, 2012	Dr. Dennis Papadopoulos University of Maryland	"The Earth's Radiation Belts and Giant Maser"
April 10, 2012	Dr. Jared Wahlstrand University of Maryland	"Absolute Measurements of the Optical Nonlinearity near the Ionization Threshold"
April 17, 2012	Dr. Wallace Manheimer Naval Research Laboratory	"How Fusion Can Become Relevant"
April 24, 2012	Dr. Ted Jones Naval Research Laboratory	"Laser Acoustics and Other Underwater Intense Laser Applications"
May 1, 2012	Dr. Henri Lezec NIST	"Negative Refraction and Negative Radiation Pressure at Visible and Ultraviolet Frequencies"