Welcome to Trivial Notions (2019/2020)

List of talks

All talks are on Friday from 12:30 until 1:30 in Science Center 530 unless otherwise indicated.

(Click on the title of a talk to get the abstract.)

Date Speaker Title
13 September 2019 Sasha Petrov Grothendieck's Monodromy Theorem
20 September 2019 Dexter Chua A Real World Application of Mathematics
27 September 2019 Maxim Jeffs Seven Perspectives on Mirror Symmetry for C*
4 October 2019 Josh Wang Knots, Algebraic Curves, and Fake Balls
11 October 2019 Sam Marks Some Duality Theorems
18 October 2019 Patrick Lopatto Lévy Matrices
25 October 2019 Naomi Sweeting Computability Theory and Turing Degrees
1 November 2019 Lucy Yang Infinitesimal Notions
8 November 2019 Elliot Glazer What Are Finite Sets?
15 November 2019 Jenny Kaufmann Strassen's Degree Bound for Arithmetic Circuits
22 November 2019 Jiakai Li Nilpotent Groups
6 December 2019 Morgan Opie Two-Plane Bundles on Complex Projective Three-Space
13 December 2019 David Yang How the Ligne Stole Christmas
31 January 2020 David Yang ‹ EATEN BY CTHULU ›
7 February 2020 Zijian Yao "Modular forms, elliptic curves, and Galois representations"
14 February 2020 Daniel Li Divergent Series or (The Unexpected Virtue of Math 1b)
21 February 2020 Dexter Chua & Sam Marks Σ f(xn) Δx = ∫ f(x) dx & Some Questions About Science
28 February 2020 Geoff Smith Random Hyperplane Slicing and the Bertini Irreducibility Theorem
4 March 2020 Sasha Petrov Phyllotaxis

Trivial notions is postponed until further notice.

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What is Trivial Notions?

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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