| Date | Speaker | Title |
| August 26 | Serge Lang, Yale University | The Semi Parallelogram Law |
| September 30 | Maciej Zworski, UC Berkeley | The Other Zeta Function |
| October 14 | Tom Graber, UC Berkeley | Rationally Connected Varieties |
| October 28 | Michael Christ, UC Berkeley | TBA |
| November 25 | Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley | TBA |
The mentor talks are presented in connection with the Math Department Mentor Program. These lectures are given on certain Mondays at 4:10PM in 60 Evans Hall. On Mondays when there's no mentor talk, there is usually an MSRI-Evans Monday lecture at the same time and place.