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Trivial Notions 2021-22

The organizers were Grant Barkley and Clair Xinle Dai.
During the fall semester, talks were given in SC 232, Thursdays starting at 11:30 am.
During the spring semester, talks were given in SC 232, Tuesdays starting at 1:30 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Talk/Link to Abstract
Sept. 30Jit Wu YapEquidistribution and Arithmetic Dynamics
Oct. 7Elliot GlazerHow many times can you flip a coin?
Oct. 14Sam MarksDecision theory
Oct. 21Taeuk NamSolving Avalon
Oct. 28Jenny KaufmannALGORITHMSHORTESTCOMMONSUPERSTRINGREEDYFORAPPROXIMATING
Nov. 4Leon LiuSomethings about (Homotopy) Type Theory
Nov. 11Rafael SaavedraThe Nielsen–Thurston Classification
Nov. 18Leon LiuChern–Weil theory, characteristic classes, and differential cohomology
Dec. 2Sasha PetrovAn application of algebraic geometry to homotopy groups of spheres
Feb. 8Natalie StewartFrom Q to R: A leisurely review of Cauchy completion
Feb. 15Elliot GlazerThe Strong Law of Uncountable Numbers
Feb. 22Sanath DevalapurkarCoherent reflections of combinatorics
Mar. 1Amanda BurcroffFrieze Your Brain
Mar. 8Grant BarkleyBott Periodicity
Mar. 22Rafael SaavedraFiat lux (The Illumination Problem)
Mar. 29Charles WangDisassembling the Mandelbrot Set
Apr. 5Taeuk NamModuli Problems and Stacks
Apr. 12Leon LiuLink homologies, braid group action, and Soergel bimodules
Apr. 19Rosie ShenHodge theory for elliptic curves
Apr. 26Eunice SukartoMath H104: Introduction to real analysis
May 3Keeley HoekVector-free linear algebra