| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1/6/09 | Organizational Meeting | |
| 1/13/09 | Stephen Bigelow | Presentations of Planar Algebras |
| 1/20/09 | Kyle Armstrong | Coxeter systems |
| 1/27/09 | Cancelled | |
| 2/3/09, 2/10/09 | John George | Numerical Uniformization |
| 2/17/09, 2/24/09 | Eriko Hironaka | Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes with small dilatation constructed from graphs |
| 3/3/09 | Wolfgang Heil | S^1 CAT of Manifolds |
| 3/17/09, 3/24/09 | Dan Li | Chern Classes |
| 3/31/09, 4/7/09 | David Valdivia | Twisted Alexander polynomials of periodic links |
| 4/14/09 | Jay Stryker | Computing Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of Schubert varieties |
| 4/16/09 Special Topology and Geometry Seminar | Melissa Macasieb | Commensurability Classes of (-2,3,n) pretzel knots |
| 4/21/09 | Ettore Aldrovandi | H^3 and multi-extensions |