All talks are on Thursday from 2:00 until 3:00 in Science Center 507 unless otherwise indicated.
Previous years Trivial Notions pages:
(Click on the title of a talk to get the abstract.)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 23 September 2010 | Nicolas Ojeda Bar | Modular forms and Galois representations |
| 30 September 2010 | Jack Thorne | Rational double points |
| 7 October 2010 | Thomas Koberda | The large-scale geometry of groups |
| 14 October 2010 | Yi Li | Calderon-Zygmund decomposition and Harnack inequality |
| 21 October 2010 | Stergios Antonakoudis | On Rigidity of Maps of Closed Riemann Surfaces |
| 28 October 2010 | Oleg Ivrii | The Winning Code |
| 4 November 2010 | Andrew Dittmer | Strangely Symmetric Curves |
| 11 November 2010 | Veterans Day | No seminar |
| 18 November 2010 | Carl Erickson | Hilbert's Fourteenth problem |
| 25 November 2010 | Thanksgiving | No seminar |
| 02 December 2010 | Nathan Kaplan | Lattice Packings of Spheres |
| 03 December 2010 | Fall term reading period begins | No seminar until Spring 2011 |
| 17 February 2011 | Giulio Tiozzo | I Knead U |
| 24 February 2011 | Samuel Raskin | When do differential equations have meromorphic solutions? |
| 03 March 2011 | Ryosuke Takahashi | The Bernstein Problem |
| 10 March 2011 | Nathan Pflueger | Tropical Riemann-Roch |
| 17 March 2011 | Spring Break | No seminar |
| 24 March 2011 | Eric Wofsey | Topological Abelian Groups |
| 31 March 2011 | Anand Deopurkar | What can be computed in mathematics? |
| 07 April 2011 | Andrei Negut | Laumon |
| 14 April 2011 | Aaron Silberstein | Nilpotent Groups and Their Lie Algebras |
| 21 April 2011 | Jerry Wang | BCGRS - Baby Coxeter Groups and Root Systems |
| 28 April 2011 | Spring term reading period begins | No seminar until Fall 2011 |
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 Hansheng Diao and Aliakbar Daemi. 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 previous year's one, which was based on the previous year's one, which was based on the previous year's one, which was based on the one from four years before, by David Harvey.