Welcome to Trivial Notions (2014/2015)

List of talks

All talks are on Wednesday from 1:00 until 2:00 (note the time change from the fall) in Science Center 112.

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

Date	Speaker	Title
18 September 2014	Omar Antolín Camarena	Integral geometry in the plane
25 September 2014	Yihang Zhu	Tamagawa numbers and volumes of certain fundamental domains
2 October 2014	George Boxer	Spaces of lattices and reciprocity laws
9 October 2014	Francesco Cavazzani	Murphy's law in algebraic geometry
16 October 2014	Eric Riedl	Potential density of quartic threefolds
22 October 2014 (special date!)	Phil Tynan	Irrationality of cubic threefolds
31 October 2014 (special date!)	Boyu Zhang	The Weinstein conjecture
6 November 2014	Eduard Duryev	The Bernstein-Kushnirenko theorem and other links between polytopes and algebraic geometry
13 November 2014	Tom Lovering	Transcendental Galois theory and motives
20 November 2014	Jon Zhu	Curvature flow for curves and surfaces
27 November 2014	American "Thanksgiving"
11 February 2015	Erick Knight	Folding algebraic numbers
18 February 2015	Koji Shimizu	Equidistribution of Gauss sums over finite fields
25 February 2015	Justin Campbell	Geometric representation theory of SL2(R)
4 March 2015	Chao Li	K_2 and L functions of elliptic curves
11 March 2015	Yihang Zhu	Language and Zeta functions
18 March 2015	Spring recess
25 March 2015	Cheng-Chiang Tsai	The Springer correspondence
1 April 2015	Krishanu Sankar	Brauer Lifting
8 April 2015	Yunqing Tang	The Grothendieck period conjecture
15 April 2015	Ananth Shankar	CM points on a product of two modular curves
24 April 2015	Konstantin Matveev	ASM, DPP, 6V DWBC and what all these letters mean
29 April 2015	Fan Wei	Large graphs want to talk to us

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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 Ben Landon and Max Menzies. Please send one of us an email if you have any questions or if you want to add yourself to the schedule.

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