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 This document provides comprehensive guidelines for maintaining content on the UVA Mathematics Department website.
 
+## Common Tasks
+
+Many content management requests come via email from department colleagues. These typically include:
+- Posting seminar/colloquium abstracts
+- Announcing conferences and workshops
+- Updating speaker information
+- Publishing award and defense announcements
+- Adding job postings
+
+When processing email requests, extract the key information (speaker names, titles, abstracts, dates, locations) and format according to the guidelines below.
+
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 ## Content Structure

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 <h2>Lecture 1: The Mathematics of Doodling</h2>
 <p><strong>Date:</strong> Monday, September 8, 2025 | 5-6pm<br>
 <strong>Location:</strong> Wilson 402<br>
-<strong>Abstract:</strong> Coming soon.</p>
+<strong>Abstract:</strong> Doodling is a creative and fundamentally human activity, resulting in doodles with intricate and often hidden implicit structure. We will treat doodles as an example for how mathematics is done — by starting with some doodles, we will ask ourselves some natural questions and see where they take us. They will lead us to some unexpected places, and to some sophisticated mathematics.</p>
 
 <h2>Lecture 2: Topology from Algebraic Geometry</h2>
 <p><strong>Date:</strong> Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | 5-6pm<br>
 <strong>Location:</strong> Wilson 402<br>
-<strong>Abstract:</strong> Coming soon.</p>
+<strong>Abstract:</strong> One of the magical parts of being a mathematician is seeing how different fields of mathematics are intertwined. Sometimes a surprising fact in one field comes from an insight in another. I will give some examples of the philosophy that when geometry comes from algebra or arithmetic, the topology can be unexpectedly constrained, which lets you prove results by "cutting and pasting". I will conclude by trying to indicate how Bott periodicity (which I won't assume you understand) is a fact about algebra, not analysis. I will discuss work of a number of mathematicians, including Melanie Wood, Aaron Landesman, Hannah Larson, Jim Bryan, and more. (This talk is intended as a survey for a broad audience.)</p>
 
 <h2>Town Hall with the AMS President</h2>
 <p><strong>Date:</strong> Wednesday, September 10, 2025 | 3:30-5pm<br>