| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
| Mon, 9 Jan 2012 | | NO SEMINAR, First day of classes |
| Wed, 11 Jan 2012 | Anatole Katok, Penn State | Survey of some open problems and interesting directions in dynamical systems and related areas. I. |
| Mon, 16 Jan 2012 | | NO SEMINAR, MLK Day |
| Wed, 18 Jan 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 23 Jan 2012 | Samuel Senti, Federal University of Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil. | Thermodynamic formalism for the Henon map at the first bifurcation |
| Wed, 25 Jan 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 30 Jan 2012 | Raul Ures, IMERL, Montevideo | On the ergodicity of partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism on the 3-torus |
| Wed, 1 Feb 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 6 Feb 2012 | Jana Rodriguez Hertz, IMERL, Montevideo | Genericity of non-uniform hyperbolicity in dimension 3 |
| Wed, 8 Feb 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 13 Feb 2012 | Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State | Global rigidity of maximal rank Anosov abelian actions |
| Wed, 15 Feb 2012 | Walter Neumann, Columbia University | Bilipschitz classification of complex surface singularities |
| Mon, 20 Feb 2012 | Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Toronto | The structure of the space of ergodic measures |
| Wed, 22 Feb 2012 | Kenichiro Yamamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology | Topological entropy of irregular sets for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems |
| Mon, 27 Feb 2012 | Marlies Gerber, Indiana University | Riemannian Metrics on S^2 with Total Absence of Finite Blocking |
| Wed, 29 Feb 2012 | Tim Austin, Brown University | Equidistribution of joinings under off-diagonal polynomial flows |
| Mon, 12 Mar 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Wed, 14 Mar 2012 | Eugene Wayne, Boston University | On metastability in Burger's and Navier-Stokes equations |
| Mon, 19 Mar 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Wed, 21 Mar 2012 | Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago | Conservative diffeomorphisms from a C^1 generic perspective. ATTENTION : THIS SEMINAR WILL BEGIN AT 4:40PM |
| Mon, 26 Mar 2012 | Igor Gorbovickis, Cornell University | Algebraic independence of multipliers of two periodic orbits in the space of polynomials of degree greater or equal than three |
| Wed, 28 Mar 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 2 Apr 2012 | | NO SEMINAR: Maryland workshop |
| Wed, 4 Apr 2012 | Carlos Matteus, University of Paris XIII | TBA |
| Mon, 9 Apr 2012 | | No seminar |
| Wed, 11 Apr 2012 | Tatiana Bandman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel | Counting Maps to Hyperbolic Curves |
| Mon, 16 Apr 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Wed, 18 Apr 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 23 Apr 2012 | Fedor Nazarov, Kent State University | Non-uniqueness of convex bodies with prescribed volumes of sections and projections. |
| Wed, 25 Apr 2012 | Yevgeniy Liokumovich, University of Toronto | CONTRACTING THE BOUNDARY OF A RIEMANNIAN 2-DISC |
| Mon, 30 Apr 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Wed, 2 May 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 7 May 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 7 May 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Wed, 5 Sep 2012 | Dmitri Panov, King's College | K(pi,1) property of complements to curve arrangements on surfaces. |
| Mon, 10 Sep 2012 | Klaus Schmidt, University of Vienna and Erwin Schroedinger Institute | Sandpipes and the Harmonic Model |
| Wed, 12 Sep 2012 | Dima Burago, Penn State | On discretization in Riemannian Geometry |
| Mon, 17 Sep 2012 | Victoria Sadovskaya, Penn State | Structure of linear cocycles with one exponent |
| Wed, 19 Sep 2012 | Valentin Ovsienko, University of Lyon | On fibrations with flat fibers |
| Mon, 24 Sep 2012 | Klaus Schmidt, University of Vienna and Erwin Schroedinger Institute | Algebraic Z^d-actions with positive entropy,III. ATTENTION! This is a part of the Tuesday lecture series at the Working seminar ; TIME: 3:35-5:30pm |
| Wed, 26 Sep 2012 | Nan Li, Penn State | Gluing under lower curvature bound |
| Mon, 1 Oct 2012 | Zhenqi Wang, Yale University | Unipotent cocycle rigidity in higher rank Lie groups |
| Wed, 3 Oct 2012 | Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University | Aspherical groups and manifolds |
| Mon, 8 Oct 2012 | Huagui Duan, Nankai University, visiting Penn State | Morse index, stability and multiplicity of closed geodesics, |
| Wed, 10 Oct 2012 | Sergei Ivanov, Steklov Institute, SPb University, visiting Penn State | On fundamental groups of manifolds without conjugate points. |
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 MB114 8:00am - 4:00pm | Various, Various | To Be Announced |
Thu, 11 Oct 2012 MB114 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Various, Various | To Be Announced |
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 MB114 8:00am - 6:00pm | Various, Various | To Be Announced |
Sat, 13 Oct 2012 MB114 8:00am - 6:00pm | Various, Various | To Be Announced |
Sun, 14 Oct 2012 MB114 8:00am - 2:00pm | Various, Various | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 15 Oct 2012 | Huagui Duan, Nankai University, visiting Penn State | Index Theory for Symplectic Matrix Paths with Applications II. ATTENTION! This is a part of the Tuesday lecture series at the Working seminar ; TIME: 3:35-5:30pm |
| Wed, 17 Oct 2012 | Jean-Paul Thouvenot, University of Paris, VI | Relative spectral theory and nonconventional averages |
| Mon, 22 Oct 2012 | Fedor Nazarov, Kent University | The ball in R^3 is a local minimizer of the optimal lattice packing density. |
| Wed, 24 Oct 2012 | Karsten Grove, University of Notre Dame | Tits Geometry and Positive Curvature |
| Mon, 29 Oct 2012 | Federico Rodriguez Hertz, Penn State | On rich surface dynamics arising from algebraic dynamics on $S^3\times S^3$. |
| Wed, 31 Oct 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 5 Nov 2012 | Jayadev Athreya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Gap Distributions and Homogeneous Dynamics |
| Wed, 7 Nov 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| Mon, 12 Nov 2012 | Zhiren Wang, Yale University | Global rigidity of abelian Anosov actions on tori |
| Wed, 14 Nov 2012 | Anton Petrunin, Penn State | Alexandrov geometry and isometric actions |
| Mon, 19 Nov 2012 | | NO SEMINAR: Thanksgiving break |
| Wed, 21 Nov 2012 | | NO SEMINAR: Thanksgiving break |
| Mon, 26 Nov 2012 | Matthew Wroten, SUNY, Stoney Brook | The Statistics of Self-Intersections of Closed Curves on Orientable Surfaces |
| Wed, 28 Nov 2012 | Igor Rivin - CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| Mon, 3 Dec 2012 | Boris Kalinin, Penn State | Cocycles of isometries of non-positively curves spaces |
| Wed, 5 Dec 2012 | Thomas Barthelmé, Tufts University | Knot theory of R-covered Anosov flows: homotopy versus isotopy of closed orbits |
| Mon, 10 Dec 2012 | Bryce Weaver, Indiana University, Bloomington | TBA |
| Wed, 12 Dec 2012 | Barry Minemyer, SUNY Binghamton | Isometric Embeddings of Polyhedra |