The following people will give talks on the Abel Symposium, 2012:
| Artur Avila | Paris |
| Ingrid Daubechies | Duke |
| László Erdős | Munich |
| Hans Feichtinger | Vienna |
| Stéphane Jaffard | Paris-Est |
| Izabella Łaba | Vancouver |
| Nikolai Makarov | Caltech |
| Clément Mouhot | Cambridge |
| Alexander Olevskii | Tel Aviv |
| Alexei Poltoratskii | Texas A&M |
| Eero Saksman | Helsinki |
| Eric Sawyer | Hamilton |
| Johannes Sjöstrand | Dijon |
| Sergei Treil | Providence |
| Yosef Yomdin | Rehovot |