| Month | Day | Lead Name | Subject | Presenters |
| October | 6 | Victor Klee | The d-step conjecture and its relatives | |
| 13, 20 | Dick Karp | Group testing and multi-disease identification | Nitin Sharma, Dan Fasulo, Ka Yee Yeung | |
| 27 | Gerhard Woeginger | Scheduling | ||
| November | 3, 10 | Richard Ladner | Structure packing | Sumeet Sobti, Agatha Liu |
| 17, 24 | Martin Tompa | Asymptotic approximate string containment | Saurabh Sinha, Jason Hartline, Kurt Partridge, Jeremy Buhler | |
| Dec | 1, 8 | Paul Beame | Unit-cost RAM algorithms for priority queues | Matt Cary, Jared Saia, Ed Hong |
Previous Quarters: Spring 1998