| Thursday, October 22 | Jenia Tevelev | What is a moduli space? |
| Thursday, October 29 | Jim Humphreys | What is a nilpotent orbit? Abstract |
| Thursday, November 5 | Tom Weston | What is a Galois representation? |
| Friday, November 13 | Paul Gunnells | What is a modular form? |
| Thursday, November 19 | HongKun Zhang | What is a billiard? |
| Friday, December 4 | Eduardo Cattani | What is a hypergeometric function? |
| Thursday, December 10 | Nathaniel Whitaker | What is Tumor Angiogenesis and how might one model it? |
Several years ago Farshid explained what is T.W.I.G.S. for.