General references for the first half of this quarter are Peskin & Schroeder, and Coleman's Aspects of Symmetry chapter 8. If you don't have Coleman's book, you can download his 1/N lecture notes here.
Jan. 18
Chris Vermilion
"Nonlinear sigma model with O(N) symmetry; CP^N model"
Jan. 25
Rob Schabinger
"Gross-Neveu model"
Gross, Neveu, Phys. Rev. D 10, 3235 (1974)
Feb. 1
Amy Nicholson
"Dominance of planar diagrams"
't Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B 72, 461 (1974)
Feb. 8
Jon Walsh
" 't Hooft model, a.k.a. QCD_2"
't Hooft, Nucl. Phys. B 75, 461 (1974)
Feb. 15
Kristan Jensen
"Gross-Witten model"
Gross, Witten, Phys. Rev. D 21, 446 (1980)
Feb. 22
Ethan Thompson
"Baryons in the 1/N expansion I"
Witten, Nucl. Phys. B 160, 57 (1979)
Feb. 29
Andrew Lytle
"Baryons in the 1/N expansion II"
Dashen, Jenkins, Manohar, Phys. Rev. D 49, 4713 (1994)
Mar. 7
Steve Paik
"Large N limits as classical mechanics"
Yaffe, Rev. Mod. Phys. 54, 407 (1982)
Mar. 14
Jong-Wan Lee
"Eguchi-Kawai reduction"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 1063 (1982)