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 | The Combinatorics of Hodge Integrals |
| 2 October 2008 | Eric Wofsey | How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Transfinite Induction |
| 9 October 2008 | Aaron Silberstein | Intersection Homology: Saving Poincaré Duality |
| 16 October 2008 | Sam Isaacson | TBA |
| 23 October 2008 | Thomas Barnet-Lamb | How to Vote |
| 30 October 2008 | Ethan Street | TBA |
| 6 November 2008 | Ana Caraiani | TBA |
| 13 November 2008 | Jack Huizenga | TBA |
| 20 November 2008 | Carl Erickson | TBA |
| 27 November 2008 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar |
| 4 December 2008 | Yu-Shen Lin | TBA |
| 11 December 2008 | Thomas Koberda | TBA |
| 18 December 2008 | Winter break | |
| The month of January | No Seminar. Just snowball fights. | |
| 5 February 2009 | Valentino Tosatti | TBA |
| 12 February 2009 | Samik Basu | TBA |
| 19 February 2009 | Chen-Yu Chi | TBA |
| 26 February 2009 | David Roe | TBA |
| 5 March 2009 | TBA | TBA |
| 12 March 2009 | Si Li | 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 |
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 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.