All talks are on Friday from 1:00 until 2:00 in Science Center 530 unless otherwise indicated.
(Click on the title of a talk to get the abstract.)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 1 February 2019 | Sahana Vasudevan | Hamiltonian Diffeomorphism Groups |
| 8 February 2019 | David Yang | |
| 15 February 2019 | Siyan Daniel Li | DL (and maybe DL): by DL |
| 22 February 2019 | Dexter Chua | Cohomology Operations and Homology Cooperations |
| 8 March 2019 | Vaughan McDonald | Galois Theory, but Different |
| 15 March 2019 | Sasha Petrov | Weil and Dwork |
| 29 March 2019 | Kevin Lin | X₁(13) |
| 5 April 2019 | Geoff Smith | Why do birational Calabi-Yau threefolds have equal Hodge numbers? |
| 12 April 2019 | Ziquan Yang | A sketch of perverse sheaves |
| 25 April 2019 at 12:30pm | Charles Wang | Buildings |
| 26 April 2019 | Kai Xu | Motivic integration and an application |
| 3 May 2019 at 12:30pm | Joshua Wang | The Smooth Poincaré Conjecture and the Complex Projective Plane |
The seminar is organized this spring by Siyan Daniel Li. Don't hesitate to contact me if you want to give a talk or have any questions or comments!
All talks are on Friday from 1:00 until 2:00 in Science Center 530 unless otherwise indicated.
(Click on the title of a talk to get the abstract.)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 28 September 2018 | Elliot Glazer | Infinite Prisoner Puzzles: A Practical Approach |
| 5 October 2018 | Karl Winsor | Tinker Toys |
| 12 October 2018 | Peter S. Park | Fixed Point Theorems |
| 19 October 2018 | Arnav Tripathy | Some Cohomology Theories |
| 26 October 2018 | Alexander Smith | Separation Separation |
| 2 November 2018 | Charles Wang | Gröbner Basics |
| 9 November 2018 | Dexter Chua | Logic and Applications |
| 16 November 2018 | Kevin Lin | F(1, 1/2, 1/2; z) |
| 30 November 2018 | Joshua Wang | Visualizing in Three and Four Dimensions |
| 7 December 2018 | Tina Torkaman | How Many Maps? |
| 14 December 2018 | Morgan Opie | A Different Type of Math |
The seminar is organized this fall by Peter S. Park and Tina Torkaman. Please send one of us an email if you have any questions or if you want to add yourself to the schedule.
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.
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