| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
| 12 Jan 2012 | Angel Kumchev, Towson University | Sums of almost equal squares of primes |
| 19 Jan 2012 | Uma N. Iyer, Bronx Community College | Quantum differential operators |
| 26 Jan 2012 | Kevin Tucker, Princeton University | Test ideals in F-regular rings |
| 2 Feb 2012 | Qing Xiang, University of Delaware | Cyclotomic constructions of strongly regular Cayley graphs and difference sets |
| 9 Feb 2012 | Jen-Chieh Hsiao, Purdue University | D-module structure of local cohomology modules |
| 16 Feb 2012 | Florian Enescu, Georgia State University | Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicities |
| 23 Feb 2012 | Anurag Singh, University of Utah | F-pure thresholds of hypersurfaces |
| 1 Mar 2012 | Karl Schwede, Penn State University | Bertini theorems for F-singularities |
| 15 Mar 2012 | Evgeny Mayanskiy, Penn State University | Orbifold Elliptic Fibrations |
| 22 Mar 2012 | Mihran Papikian, Penn State University | On Jacquet-Langlands isogeny |
| 29 Mar 2012 | Cécile Armana, University of Muenster, visiting Brown | Explicit bases of modular symbols over function fields |
| 5 Apr 2012 | Yuri Zarhin, Penn State University | Poincaré duality and unimodularity |
| 12 Apr 2012 | Andrew D. Pollington, National Science Foundation | A question of Wolfgang Schmidt concerning two dimensional Diophantine approximation |
| 19 Apr 2012 | Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University | Noncommutative Laurent phenomenon |
| 26 Apr 2012 | Robert C. Vaughan, Penn State University | On sums of powers of primes |
| 30 Aug 2012 | Meet for lunch at 11:30 | No Talk this week |
| 6 Sep 2012 | Robert C. Vaughan, Penn State University | Report on Goettingen conference on analytic methods for diophantine problems |
| 13 Sep 2012 | Hilaf Hasson, Penn State University | The geometry of etale fundamental groups of curves over Q_p^{un} |
| 20 Sep 2012 | David Thomson, Carleton University, Ottawa and Penn State University | Ambiguity and deficiency of permutations |
| 27 Sep 2012 | Vladimir Popov, Steklov Mathematical Institute | COORDINATE ALGEBRAS OF ALGEBRAIC GROUPS: |
| 4 Oct 2012 | Enrico Bombiero, is the Marker Lecturer | No talk this week |
| 11 Oct 2012 | Roger Plymen, Southampton University | The Skewes Number |
| 18 Oct 2012 | Bogdan Petrenko, SUNY Brockport | Generating an algebra from the probabilistic standpoint |
| 25 Oct 2012 | Leonid Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University | Locally nilpotent derivations and the AK (ML) invariant |
| 1 Nov 2012 | Alex Rice, Bucknell University | Improvements and Extensons of Two Theorems of Sarkozy |
| 8 Nov 2012 | Robert C. Vaughan, Penn State | Wooley's recent work on the Vinogradov Mean Value Theorem |
| 15 Nov 2012 | Daniel Hernandez, University of Minnesota | F-pure thresholds of quasi-homogeneous polynomials |
| 22 Nov 2012 | Mr Turkey, Thanksgiving | No talk this week |
| 29 Nov 2012 | Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan | Singularities of graded sequences of ideals |
| 6 Dec 2012 | Jose Plinio Santos, University of Campinas, Brazil | Bijective proofs using two-line matrix representations for partitions |
| 13 Dec 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 20 Dec 2012 | | To Be Announced |