Welcome to Trivial Notions (2008/2009)

List of talks

All talks are on Thursday from 2:00 until 3:00 in Science Center 507 unless otherwise indicated.

To see last year's Trivial Notions page, look here.

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

Date	Speaker	Title
18 September 2008		Qualifying Exam
25 September 2008	Yi Li	TBA
2 October 2008	Eric Wofsey	TBA
9 October 2008	Aaron Silberstein	TBA
16 October 2008	Sam Isaacson	TBA
23 October 2008	David Roe	TBA
30 October 2008	TBA	TBA
6 November 2008	Ana Caraiani	TBA
13 November 2008	Jack Huizenga	TBA
20 November 2008	TBA	TBA
27 November 2008	Thanksgiving	No Seminar
4 December 2008	Yu-Shen Lin	TBA
11 December 2008	TBA	TBA
18 December 2008		Winter break
The month of January		No Seminar. Just snowball fights.
5 February 2009	TBA	TBA
12 February 2009	TBA	TBA
19 February 2009	TBA	TBA
26 February 2009	TBA	TBA
5 March 2009	TBA	TBA
12 March 2009	TBA	TBA
19 March 2009	Tanya Kobylyatskaya	TBA
26 March 2009		Spring break
2 April 2009	TBA	TBA
9 April 2009	TBA	TBA
16 April 2009	TBA	TBA
23 April 2009	TBA	TBA
30 April 2009	TBA	TBA

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 Katy Körner and Thomas Koberda. 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 one from three years before, by David Harvey.