Welcome to Trivial Notions (2013/2014)

List of talks

All talks are on Thursday from 12:00 until 1:00 (note the time change from fall) in Science Center 112 (again, not the change from fall) unless otherwise indicated.

Previous years Trivial Notions pages:

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

Date Speaker Title
12 September 2013 Tom Lovering p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa Main Conjectures
19 September 2013 Eric Riedl Complete Families of Smooth Curves
26 September 2013 Justin Campbell Geometric Class Field Theory after Deligne
3 October 2013 Francesco Cavazzani ADE Singularities and Slodowy Slices
10 October 2013 Omar Antolin-Camarena Homotopy Theory in the Foundations of Mathematics
17 October 2013 George Boxer Congruences of Modular Forms and Galois Representations
24 October 2013 Gijs Heuts Some Elements in Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres
31 October 2013 Chao Li Deligne-Lustig Curves
7 November 2013 Erick Knight Period 3 Implies Chaos
14 November 2013 Jeff Kuan The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation
21 November 2013 Nathan Pflueger TBD
28 November 2013 Canceled due to Thanksgiving Nothing to see here
5 December 2013 Canceled due to organizer absentmindedness Still Nothing to see here
12 December 2013 Andrew Dittmer Shintani + Tate = ?
6 Feburary 2014 Stergios Antonakoudis Measured Foliations and Riemann Surfaces
13 Feburary 2014 Cheng-Chiang Tsai Local transfer and Langlands correspondence
20 Feburary 2014 Ben Landon Anderson Localization
27 Feburary 2014 Krishanu Sankar Markov Chains and Spectral Gaps
5 March 2014 Ananth Shankar Artin's Primitive Root Conjecture
13 March 2014 Yunqing Tang TBD

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.

Any questions?

The seminar is organized this year by Erick Knight and Lukas Brantner. 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 previous year's one, which was based on the previous year's one, which was based on the one from X years before, by David Harvey.