All talks are on Thursday from 1:00 until 2:00 in Science Center 222 unless otherwise indicated.
(Click on the title of a talk to get the abstract.)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 22 September 2016 (from 1:30) | Dennis Tseng | How to parameterize a hypersurface |
| 29 September 2016 | Erick Knight | Algebraic geometry for people who know neither algebra nor geometry |
| 6 October 2016 | Yuval Dor | Model theory for people who know neither models nor theory |
| 13 October 2016 | Hunter Spink | The Friendship Theorem for people that don't know theorems and have no friends |
| 20 October 2016 (from 1:30) | Chi-Yun Hsu | Various compactifications of Siegel moduli variety |
| 27 October 2016 | Tom Lovering | Philosophy and Functional Equations: Cox’s Derivation of Probability |
| 3 November 2016 (from 1:15) | Yusheng Luo | Dominoes! |
| 10 November 2016 | Koji Shimizu | How to compute a trace |
| 17 November 2016 (from 1:30) | Krishanu Shankar | The Steenrod Algebra |
| 24 November 2016 | NO TALK -- THANKSGIVING | |
| 1 December 2016 | NO TALK -- NO REASON | |
| 8 December 2016 | Yihang Zhu | Comparing Tamagawa numbers of different groups |
Previous years Trivial Notions pages:
The Trivial Notions seminar is held once a week in the Mathematics Department at Harvard University. The target audience is the graduate student body of the Department, and those giving talks are (almost always) graduate students in the Department. Talks can be on any topic, but they should be accessible to graduate students!
The seminar is a great way to find out what other students are thinking about. It's also a great way to practice talking mathematics in front of others, without the distraction of scary professors in the audience.
The seminar is organized this fall byAmol Aggarwal, Jake Marcinek and Alexander Smith. Please send one of us an email if you have any questions or if you want to add yourself to the schedule.
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