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Trivial Notions 2024-25

The organizers were Frank Lu and Runze Yu.

During the Fall semester, talks were given in SC 232 on Thursdays, starting at 12:30 pm.

During the Spring semester, talks were given in SC 232 on Tuesdays, starting at 12 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle/Link to Abstract
Sept. 12Mitchell LeePairs of Permutations with the Same Descent Set
Sept. 19Oliver ThakarTaut Foliations!
Sept. 26Kush SinghalCan you fold the cube root of 2?
Oct. 3Frank LuHow Not to Make Everyone Happy
Oct. 10Elias SinkProjective Configurations and Elliptic Surfaces
Oct. 17Dylan PentlandThe Klein Quartic
Oct. 24Grant BarkleyThe Affine Tamari Lattice
Oct. 31Ben ChurchHow to Get Into Y Combinator Without Really Trying
Nov. 7Merrick CaiGeometry and Differential Geometry
Nov. 14Oakley EdensRational Curve Counting for Irrational Mathematicians
Nov. 21Natalie StewartTopology and Algebraic Topology
Dec. 5Claudia YaoInfinite Rhombus and Swirly Oblong (aka the Square Peg Problem)
Feb. 4Xinyu FangInteger Distance Sets and Rational Point Counting
Feb. 11Andrew BurkeJet Schemes and Motivic Integration
Feb. 18Daniel SantiagoNilmanifolds and Iterated Circle Bundles
Feb. 25Ben ChurchDynamics on K3 Surfaces and Siegel Disks
Mar. 4Merrick Cai(D) Analysis and Geometric Analysis (of Flag Varieties)
Mar. 11Oliver ThakarHeating up complex geometry
Mar. 25Runze YuTopological Lefschetz Fibrations
Apr. 3 (Thursday!)Kush SinghalCounting Rational Points on Curves
Apr. 8Dhilan LahotiAlgebra and Algebraic K-Theory
Apr. 15Sunny ZhangLagrangian Torus Fibrations
Apr. 22Isabel LongbottomTrivial Problems and Mathematical Trivia
Apr. 29Keeley HoekDependent Type Theory and Autoformalization