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).
| 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 |
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.
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