Welcome to Trivial Notions (2022/2023)

This week's Trivial Notions will be Fridays at 11.50am-1.00pm in SC 232.

List of talks

 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 25 November 2022 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 @ 1:30-2:45pm (!) Michael Kural ??? 17 February 2023 Ang Yan Sheng ??? 24 February 2023 Leon Liu ??? 3 March 2023 Amanda Burcroff ??? 10 March 2023 Kevin Lin ??? 17 March 2023 Spring Break 24 March 2023 Charles Wang ??? 31 March 2023 TBD ??? 7 April 2023 @ 1:30-2:45pm (!) Johnny Gao ??? 14 April 2023 TBD ??? 21 April 2023 TBD ??? 28 April 2023 TBD Keeley Hoek's Honorary Birthday Colloquium 5 May 2023 Taeuk Nam ???

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.

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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