All talks are on Thursday from 4:15 until 5:15 in Science Center 507 unless otherwise indicated. (Formerly Friday 2:00-3:00; note the change.)
To see last year's Trivial Notions page, look here.
(Click on the title of a talk to get the abstract.)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 22 September 2006 | Valentino Tosatti | The Lefschetz fixed-point formula |
| 29 September 2006 | Jonathan Pottharst | Discuss your favorite Galois representation in ten words or less |
| 6 October 2006 | Maksym Fedorchuk | Algebraic surfaces: from Enriques to Mori |
| 13 October 2006 | Reid Barton | Cartier-Foata Theory |
| 20 October 2006 | Chen-Yu Chi | Complex varieties are really real! |
| 27 October 2006 | Thomas Barnet-Lamb | How to vote |
| 3 November 2006 | Samuel Isaacson | Homotopy everything |
| 10 November 2006 | Veterans day | |
| 17 November 2006 | David Harvey | Computing 2 x 2 for large values of 2 |
| 24 November 2006 | Thanksgiving break (and Ryan's birthday) | |
| 1 December 2006 | Dawei Chen | Counting covers of an ellipitic curve |
| 8 December 2006 | Ryan Reich | The Multiplicity One theorems |
| 15 December 2006 | Andrew Lobb | 7-dimensional laser calculus (canceled) |
| 22 December 2006 | Winter break | |
| 29 December 2006 | Winter break | |
| The month of January | Winter break, finals, more break...no one would come, anyway | |
| 2 February 2007 | David Smyth | Uniformity of Rational Points |
| 8 February 2007 | Jesse Kass | NOT a Talk About Stacks |
| 15 February 2007 | Lin Han | There are no abelian varieties over Z |
| 22 February 2007 | Sug Woo Shin | Bruhat-Tits buildings |
| 1 March 2007 | Ji Oon Lee | Symmetric, but not self-adjoint |
| 8 March 2007 | David Roe | Sums-of-squares formulas |
| 16 March 2007 | Kai-Wen Lan | Fair Chance |
| 23 March 2007 | ||
| 30 March 2007 | Spring break | |
| 6 April 2007 | ||
| 13 April 2007 | Samik Basu | The Hairy Ball Theorem and the Brouwer fixed point theorem |
| 20 April 2007 | Andrew Lobb | My name is —, and I am a number theorist. |
| 27 April 2007 | Stewart Wilcox | Who needs inverses anyway? |
| 4 May 2007 | Cameron Freer | 050407 Trees in One |
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 Ryan Reich and Ruifang Song. Please send one of us an email if you have any questions or if you want to add yourself to the schedule.
This page was based on the previous year's one, which was based on the one from the year before, by David Harvey.