Welcome to Trivial Notions (2015/2016)

List of talks

All talks are on Wednesday from 12:00 until 1:00 (note the time change from the fall) in Science Center 222 unless otherwise indicated.

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

Date	Speaker	Title
17 September 2015	Ben Landon	The central limit theorem
24 September 2015 (from 12:45)	Yunqing Tang	The Andre-Oort conjecture and abelian varieties isogenous to no Jacobian
1 October 2015 (from 1:30)	Francesco Cavazzani	Weyl exceptional groups in real life
8 October 2015 (from 12:45)	Lynnelle Ye	Newman's very short proof of the Prime Number Theorem
15 October 2015	Jonathan Zhu	Hearing the shape of a triangle
22 October 2015 (from 12:45)	Tom Lovering	The Infinitesimal Site and de Rham Cohomology
29 October 2015	Justin Campbell	The equivariant cohomology of a point
5 November 2015	Yusheng Luo	Primes, Periodic Points and Closed Geodesics
12 November 2015	Akhil Mathew	Thomason's etale descent theorem in algebraic K-theory
19 November 2015 (from 1:30)	Jiaoyang Huang	The semicircle distribution
26 November 2015	Thanksgiving
3 December 2015	Hunter Spink	Why do fields of characteristic zero exist?
3 February 2016	Erick Knight	The Emperor and His Money
10 February 2016	Koji Shimizu	Galois coverings of an algebraic curve
17 February 2016	Chi-Yun Hsu	Hyperelliptic Modular Curves
25 February 2016 (Thursday!)	Yihang Zhu	Proving the Riemann-Roch using the Selberg trace formula
2 March 2016	Yixiang Mao	Large Deviations Theory --- Theory for the rare events
10 March 2016 (Thursday!)	Jun Hou Fung	Posets and finite spaces
16 March 2016	Spring recess
23 March 2016	Ananth Shankar	Algebraic solutions of differential equations
30 March 2016	Yu-Wei Fan	An exercise in mirror symmetry
13 April 2016	Konstantin Matveev	Many faces of Macdonald polynomials
27 April 2016	Yong Suk Moon	15 theorem and 290 theorem

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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 Yu-Wei Fan and Yusheng Luo. 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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