Welcome to the BMC Archives. This section of the site was created to archive the session handouts and Monthly Contests from the Circle since 1998. To navigate this page, simply select the desired year you wish to view under either Session Handouts or Monthly Contests. The info for that year will be displayed underneath your selection.

Session Handouts:
1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003
2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007   


Monthly Contests:
1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004
2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007    

 

Session Handouts 2006-2007:

Instructor Topic Notes
Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley
"Invesion in the Plane, Part I" (PDF| PS)
Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley
"Inversion in the Plane, Part II" (Same notes as above)
Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley
"Graph Theory in Olympiad Problem Solving" (PDF| PS)
Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
"Games of No Chance" (PDF| PS)
Olga Holtz
UC Berkeley
"Recurrent Problems"  
Alexander Givental
UC Berkeley
"Geometric Constructions"  
Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
"Games and the Golden Ratio" (PDF| PS)
Olga Holtz
UC Berkeley
"Congruence"  
Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
"Games and Invariants"  
Tom Rike
Oakland High School
"Steiner and Mascheroni Constructions" (PDF)
Alexander Givental
UC Berkeley
"Solving Problems with Vectors"  
Vera Serganova
UC Berkeley
"Combinatorics and Geometry" (PDF)
Tom Davis
Silcon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle
"Counting Things: Basic Combinatorics" (PDF)
Tom Davis
Silcon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle
"Catalan Numbers" (PDF)
Elwyn Berlekamp
UC Berkeley
"Some Problems in Computer Science & Elementary Number Theory" (PPT)
Ravi Vakil
Stanford University
"The Mathematics of Doodling"  
Sam Vandervelde
Stanford University
"Geometric Mad-Libs" (PDF)
Tom Rike
Oakland High School
"Infinite Series" (PDF)
Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley
"AMC 10 and 12 Preparation"  
Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley
"BAMO Preparation", beginners  
Tom Davis
Silcon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle
"BAMO Preparation", advanced  
Igor Ganichev & Dagan Karp
Both UC Berkeley
"BAMO Preparation", general session (PDF1, PDF2)

Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley

"BAMO Aftermath" (BAMO 2007 Solutions)

Joshua Zucker
Castilleja High School, Palo Alto

"Divide and Conquer: Partitions of Numbers" (PDF)
Joshua Zucker
Castilleja High School, Palo Alto
"Close Encounters of the Sterling Kind: Partitions of Sets" (PDF)
Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
"Some Sums"  

Tatiana Shubin
San Jose State Univesity

"Group Theory " (DOC)
Tom Rike
Oakland High School
"300 Years of Euler " (PDF)
Tatiana Shubin
San Jose State Univesity
"More Groups and a Math Smorgasbord"  
Bjorn Poonen
UC Berkeley
"Elliptic Curves" (PDF)