This week's Trivial Notions will be Friday at 11.50am-1.00pm in SC232.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Fall Session | ||
| 2 September 2022 | Leon Liu | Borel–Weil and Berry phase |
| 9 September 2022 | Taeuk Nam | Beilinson–Bernstein Localization |
| 16 September 2022 | Wyatt Reeves | Applications of the Lefschetz Fixed-point Theorem |
| 23 September 2022 | Alejandro Epelde Blanco | The Arnol'd–Liouville theorem |
| 30 September 2022 | Elliot Glazer | The original hat problem |
| 7 October 2022 | Kush Singhal | How many integer solutions are there to $2x^2 + 2y^2 + 2z^2 + x = 190$? |
| 14 October 2022 | Sanath Devalapurkar | Trivial dualities |
| 21 October 2022 | Victor Wang | On a conjecture of Stanley and Stembridge |
| 28 October 2022 | Dingding Dong | An optimal uncertainty principle in dimension twelve |
| 4 November 2022 | Dylan Pentland | Abelian varieties over a finite field |
| 11 November 2022 | Maxim Jeffs | IF |
| 18 November 2022 | Sina Saleh | An “easy” case of the Zariski dense orbit conjecture |
| Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 2 December 2022 | Rafael M. Saavedra | Grothendieck's Recipe for Kimchi, or $\mathbb{P}^1 - \{0,1,\infty\}$ |
| Spring Session | ||
| 3 February 2023 | Grant Barkley | $L$-functions and all that |
| 10 February 2023 @ 1:45-3:00pm in SC507 (!) | Michael Kural | Cheating in Analytic Number Theory |
| 17 February 2023 @ 1:45-3:00pm in SC507 (!) | Yan Sheng Ang | Counting Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces |
| 24 February 2023 | Leon Liu | Bordism as a homology theory |
| 27 February 2023 @ 1:30-2:45pm in SC Hall D (!) | Amanda Burcroff | Hyperbolic Zoology |
| 10 March 2023 | Kevin Lin | Some trace formulæ |
| Spring Break | ||
| 24 March 2023 | Charles Wang | Commuting differential operators |
| 31 March 2023 | Daniel Li-Huerta | Applications of algebra |
| 7 April 2023 @ 1:30-2:45pm in SC507 (!) | Johnny Gao | Riemann–Roch on Graphs |
| 14 April 2023 @ 1:30-2:45pm in SC507 (!) | Joshua Wang | A construction of Khovanov homology |
| 21 April 2023 | Taeuk Nam | Derived Algebraic Geometry |
| 28 April 2023 | Keeley Hoek | Honorary Birthday Colloquium – A classical uncertainty principle |
| 5 May 2023 | Lucy Yang | An invitation to noncommutative (linear) algebra |
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 year by Rafael Saavedra and Keeley Hoek. Please send one of them an email if you have questions or would like to give a talk.
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