| 14th December 2012 | 15:00 | New Materials For radiation Detection and Measurement |  | Alan Owens (TEC-SN) | Einstein |
| 30th November 2012 | 15:00 | Abiotic methane from low temperature serpentinization: Earth vs Mars | | Dr. Giuseppe Etiope (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma) | Einstein |
| 16th November 2012 | 15:00 | Comparative Interiors of Planets | | Dr. Doris Breuer (DLR) | Einstein |
| 02nd November, 2012 | 15:00 | Alignment of galaxies and weak gravitational lensing | | Dr. Bjoern Malte Schaefer (University of Heidelberg, Germany) | Einstein |
| 19th October, 2012 | 15:00 | The Chromosphere of the Sun | | Prof. Rob Rutten (Inst. for Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo) | Einstein |
| 05th October, 2012 | 15:00 | The role of star clusters in star formation, galaxy evolution and the growth of cosmic structures | | Dr. Diederik Kruijssen (Max-Planck-Inst. for Astrophysik, Germany) | Newton 1 |
| 22nd June 2012 | 15:00 | Sulfur and Carbon Cycles in the Icy Moons of Jupiter | | Gianni Strazzulla (INAF) | Newton 1 |
| 8th June 2012 | 15:00 | Supernova Cosmology | | Dr. Bruno Leibundgut (ESO) | Newton 1 |
| 25th May 2012 | 15:00 | Titan, a prebiotic chemistry and exobiology laboratory | | Dr. Francois Raulin (University Paris-Est Creteil) | Newton 1 |
| 11th May 2012 | 15:00 | Surveying the Galactic Disc in H-Alpha | | Dr. Janet Drew (University of Hertfordshire) | Newton 2 |
| 27th April 2012 | 15:00 | Large Molecules and Nanograins in Spaces | | Dr. Alexander Tielens (Leiden Observatory) | Newton 2 |
| 13th April 2012 | 15:00 | Blue Stragglers and Binary Stars in Open Clusters | | Dr. Aaron Geller (Nothwestern University, USA) | Einstein |
| 30th March, 2012 | 15:00 | Physical Sciences Research in Space in the Framework of the Elips Programme | | Dr. Olivier Minster (Physical Science Unit, D/HSO) | Einstein |
| 09th March, 2012 | 15:00 | Galaxy Evolution as seen by Herschel/Shining (postponed from Dec. 2011) | | Dr. Eckhard Sturm (MPI) | Newton 1 |
| 24th February, 2012 | 15:00 | Planck | | Dr. Nabila Aghanim (IAS) | Einstein |
| 10th February, 2012 | 15:00 | Aurora related emissions across the Solar System and beyond | | Dr. Robert Mutel (Iowa University) | Einstein |
| 3rd February, 2012 | 15:00 | What do we really know about dark energy? | | Dr. Ruth Durrer (Geneva University) | Einstein |
| 20th January, 2012 | 15:00 | Direct sampling of the interstellar gas with IBEX | | Dr. Peter Wurz (Bern University) | Newton 1 |