| # | Date | Speaker | Subject | Place* |
| 108 | 1/11/17 | Richard Moore | Trends in Supercomputing and Evolution of the San Diego Supercomputer Center | SWYC |
| 109 | 2/15/17 | Keith Wahl | The Science and Art of Glass | SWYC |
| 110 | 3/29/17 | Tom Soifer | The Spitzer Space Telescope: NASA’s Infrared Great Observatory – From the Youngest Galaxies to Exoplanets | SWYC |
| 111 | 5/10/17 | Cindy Outlaw | The Seven Summits | SWYC |
| 112 | 6/21/17 | Barbara Durrant | Endangered Species Rescue: How far should we go? | SWYC |
| 113 | 8/2/17 | Patrick Lee | A fast, precise, flexible, & coordinated control technology for the electric grid of the future | SWYC |
| 114 | 9/13/17 | John Glass | Engineering Life Using CRISPRs and Synthetic Biology | SWYC |
| 115 | 10/25/17 | Ray Ashley | Replicating the San Salvador, the ship in which Juan Cabrillo sailed to San Diego | SWYC |
| 116 | 12/6/17 | Andres Bratt-Leal | Patient Specific Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease | SWYC |
