| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
18 Jul 2008 10:10am - 11:00am | Steffen Roch, Darmstadt | The finite sections proof of the index theorem for band dominated operators |
26 Aug 2008 2:30pm - 3:20pm | Xiang Tang, Washington University in Saint Louis | Relative index of CR structures |
| 9 Sep 2008 | Paul Baum, Penn State University | Morita equivalence revisted |
| 16 Sep 2008 | Scott Morrison, Microsoft Station Q @ U.C. Santa Barbara | The D2n planar algebras |
| 23 Sep 2008 | Yi-Jun Yao, Penn State | Positive cocycles over noncommutative 2-tori. |
30 Sep 2008 105 Walker Building | Bin Zhang, Sichuan University, China | Renormalization on toric varieties |
10 Oct 2008 320 Whitmore Lab 11:15am - 12:30pm | Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto | Twisted K-homology and group-valued moment maps |
| 14 Oct 2008 | Wilhelm Winter, University of Nottingham, UK | Dimension and decomposition |
| 21 Oct 2008 | Robert Coquereaux, Penn State & CPT Marseille | A bird's eye view of quantum field theory (with a glance at applications in particle physics) |
| 4 Nov 2008 | Jonathan Block, U Penn | Module categories in geometry and topology; Part I |
| 11 Nov 2008 | Nigel Higson, Penn State | Introduction to the oscillator representation |
| 18 Nov 2008 | Murat Gunaydin, Penn State Gravity | AdS/CFT dualities, minimal representations and group contractions |
| 25 Nov 2008 | Thanksgiving | No talk this week |
| 2 Dec 2008 | Luca Stefanini, Penn State | Integration of quotient Poisson bivectors |
| 9 Dec 2008 | Eugene Lerman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Prequantization of orbifolds |