Trivial Notions 2022-23

The organizers were Rafael Saavedra and Keeley Hoek.
Talks were typically given in SC 232, Fridays 11:50 am-1:00 pm.

DateSpeakerTitle of Talk
Sept. 2Leon LiuBorel-Weil and Berry phase
Sept. 9Taeuk NamBeilinson-Bernstein Localization
Sept. 16Wyatt ReevesApplications of the Lefschetz Fixed-point Theorem
Sept. 23Alejandro Epelde BlancoThe Arnol’d-Liouville theorem
Sept. 30Elliot GlazerThe original hat problem
Oct. 7Kush SinghalHow many integer solutions are there to $2x^2 + 2y^2 + 2z^2 + x = 190?$
Oct. 14Sanath DevalapurkarTrivial dualities
Oct. 21Victor WangOn a conjecture of Stanley and Stembridge
Oct. 28Dingding DongAn optimal uncertainty principle in dimension twelve
Nov. 4Dylan PentlandAbelian varieties over a finite field
Nov. 11Maxim JeffsIF
Nov. 18Sina SalehAn “easy” case of the Zariski dense orbit conjecture
Dec. 2Rafael SaavedraGrothendieck’s Recipe for Kimchi, or $\mathbb{P}^1 – \{0, 1, \infty\}$
Feb. 3Grant BarkleyL-functions and all that
Feb. 10Michael KrualCheating in Analytic Number Theory
Feb. 17Yan Sheng AngCounting Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces
Feb. 24Leon LiuBordism as a homology theory
Feb. 27 (Special time)Amanda BurcroffHyperbolic Zoology
Mar. 10Kevin LinSome trace formulae
Mar. 24Charles WangCommuting differential operators
Mar. 31Daniel Li-HuertaApplications of algebra
Apr. 7Johnny GaoRiemann-Roch on Graphs
Apr. 14Joshua WangA construction of Khovanov homology
Apr. 21Taeuk NamDerived Algebraic Geometry
Apr. 28Keeley HoekA classical uncertainty principle
May 5Lucy YangAn invitation to noncommutative (linear) algebra