| Month | Day | Speaker | Title |
| January | 26 | - | Discussion of topics - First Meeting of semester |
| February | 8 | Pablo Barrio | Mining a Search Engine’s Corpus: Efficient Yet Unbiased Sampling and Aggregate Estimation Mingyang Zhang, Nan Zhang, Gautam Das - appeared at SIGMOD 2011 |
| 23 | Ioannis Paparrizos | The web changes everything: understanding the dynamics of web content Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Jonathan L. Elsas - appeared at WSDM 2009 (Best Student Paper) | |
| March | 8 | Orestis Polychroniou | High-throughput Heavy hitters | 22 | Joshua Gordon | Weakly-supervised acquisition of labeled class instances using graph random walks Partha Pratim Talukdar et al - appeared at EMNLP '08 |
| April | 5 | Eva Sitaridi | Ameliorating Memory Contention of OLAP operators on GPU Processors | 19 | Andy Pavlo | Making Fast Databases Faster |