The talks for the current semester are on two different topics, namely, Inverse Problems and Application (IPA) and Random Matrix Theory (RMT). The schedule of the talks are as follows:
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Title |
| Aug. 30 | IPA | Lihong Wang, Washington University | Photoacoustic Tomography: Breaking through the Optical Diffusion Limit |
| Sep. 13 | RMT | Ivan Corwin, Courant Institute, NYU | Beyond the Gaussian universality class |
| Sep. 27 | IPA | Graeme Milton, University of Utah | Where Science Fiction Meets Science |
| Oct. 11 | IPA | Margaret Cheney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Introduction to Synthetic-Aperture Radar Imaging |
| Oct. 18 | RMT | Jinho Baik, University of Michigan | Coulomb Gases, Random Matrices and Beyond |
| Nov. 8 | IPA | Liliana Borcea, Rice University | Detection and imaging with waves in heterogeneous, strongly backscattering media |
| Nov. 22 | RMT | Percy Deift, Courant Institute, NYU | What is Random Matrix Theory? |
| Dec. 6 | RMT | Alice Guionnet, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon | Asymptotics of Random Matrices |