| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
| 4 Jan 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 11 Jan 2012 | | Organizational |
| 18 Jan 2012 | Sonja Petrovic, Penn State | Toric ideals from hypergraphs: algebra for network models |
| 25 Jan 2012 | Ke Ye, Texas A&M | On the geometry of tensor network states |
| 1 Feb 2012 | Claudiu Raicu, Princeton | Combinatorics arising from the study of tensors |
| 8 Feb 2012 | Guido Montufar, Penn State | Approximation Errors of Deep Belief Networks |
| 15 Feb 2012 | Jason Morton, Penn State | Applied Algebraic Geometry |
| 22 Feb 2012 | | No Seminar |
| 29 Feb 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 7 Mar 2012 | | No Seminar-Spring Break |
| 14 Mar 2012 | Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago | Mapping the Connectome with Convex Algebraic Geometry |
| 21 Mar 2012 | Aaron Lauda, USC | Categorifying quantum groups using planar diagrammatics |
| 28 Mar 2012 | | No Seminar |
| 4 Apr 2012 | Guido Montufar, Penn State | When does a mixture of products contain a product of mixtures? |
| 11 Apr 2012 | Susan Margulies, Penn State | To Be Announced |
| 18 Apr 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 25 Apr 2012 | Johannes Rauh, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig | Algebraic aspects of conditional independence |
| 9 May 2012 | | No Seminar |
| 22 Aug 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 29 Aug 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 5 Sep 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 12 Sep 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 19 Sep 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 26 Sep 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 3 Oct 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 10 Oct 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 17 Oct 2012 | Jacob Turner | To Be Announced |
| 24 Oct 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 31 Oct 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 7 Nov 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 14 Nov 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 21 Nov 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 28 Nov 2012 | Jason Morton | An algebraic perspective on tensor network states |
| 5 Dec 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 12 Dec 2012 | | To Be Announced |
| 19 Dec 2012 | | To Be Announced |