Welcome to Trivial Notions (2020/2021)

This week's Trivial Notions will be Friday at 12 noon.

Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92748017686

Password: The order of the alternating group A6 (a 3-digit number).

List of talks

Date Speaker Title
2 October 2020 Elliot Glazer Wait, it's all real numbers?
9 October 2020 Sam Marks Only someone with Free Will could have chosen a title so Annoying
16 October 2020 Maxim Jeffs If
23 October 2020 Grant Barkley The Calculus of Constructions
30 October 2020 Sanath Devalapurkar Who put analysis in my algebra? (notes)
6 November 2020 Josh Wang An introduction to the classifications of 4-manifolds
13 November 2020 Jenny Kaufmann How I learned to stop worrying and love practicality
20 November 2020 Yuhan Jiang This game is surreal
5 March 2021 Morgan Opie How do we get our hands on vector bundles?
12 March 2021 Sam Marks The Peter Scholze fan club
19 March 2021 Dexter Chua Shuffling Cards
26 March 2021 Elliot Glazer Going broke on an infinite RoI scheme
9 April 2021 Josh Wang Hodge theory and combinatorics
16 April 2021 Sanath Devalapurkar Periods (notes)
23 April 2021 Maxim Jeffs The Zariski-Van Kampen Theorem

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.

The seminar is organized this year by Samuel Marks. Please send him an email if you have questions or would like to give a talk.

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 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.

Previous years' Trivial Notions pages