The sessions of the Berkeley Math Circle (BMC) will be held on Tuesdays from 6PM to 8PM in Moffit, Room 101 on the UC Berkeley Campus. (Directions to 101 Moffit) The instructors will begin at 6PM sharp, so please plan on arriving 5 to 10 minutes earlier. Late arrivals are discouraged since they cause distraction to the sessions.

Regarding the Monthly Contest schedule, you'll find little symbols to the right hand column. The symbol denotes when a Monthly Contest will be or has been distributed. The symbol stands for when a Monthly Contest is due. Finally, the symbol represents when the awards for that Monthly Contest will be held.

Please select from the following months to quickly jump to a particular month:
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Date___ Instructor________ Topic Monthly Contest
Sep. 11

Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley

"Monovariants, Part "I (PDF, PS) MC1
Sep. 18

Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley

"Monovariants, Part II"
Part I (Same as above): (PDF, PS)
Part II (New): (PDF, PS)
 
Sep. 25

Zvezdelina Stankova
Mills College & UC Berkeley

"Monovariants, Part III"
(Same notes as above)
 
Oct. 02 Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
"Survival Counting, Part I" (PDF, PS)  
Oct. 09 Paul Zeitz
University of San Francisco
"Survival Counting, Part II"
(same notes as above)
MC1
MC2
Oct. 16

Matt Beck
San Francisco State University

"Frobenius Problems" (PDF, PS) MC1
Oct. 23 Tom Davis
Silcon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle
"Rubik's Cube and Group Theory, Part I" (Cube Program, PDF))  
Oct. 30 Tom Davis
Silcon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle
"Rubik's Cube and Group Theory, Part II" (Same links as above)  
Nov. 06 Federico Ardila
San Francisco State University
"Various Topics in Combinatorial Geometry" (PDF, PS) MC2
MC3
Nov. 13 Quan Lam
UC Berkeley
"Infinity, Part I " MC2
Nov. 20 Igor Ganichev
UC Berkeley
"Elementary Geometry Problems on Loci" (PDF, PS)  
Nov. 27 Tom Rike
Oakland High School
"Mass Point Geometry" (PDF, PS)  
Dec. 04 Quan Lam
UC Berkeley
Christmas Party at MSRI
"Infinity, Part II"

MC3
MC4

Dec. 11 Ted Courant
Bentley School
"Circular Reasoning: Circle Related Theorems from Euclidean Geometry" MC3
Dec. 18 Robin Hartshorne
UC Berkeley
"History of Complex Numbers"
Room Change: 101 Moffit
 
Dec. 25 Christmas and New Year Break
Jan. 01 Christmas and New Year Break
Jan. 08 Elwyn Berlekamp
UC Berkeley
"Impartial Games"

MC4
MC5

Jan. 15

Yvonne Lai
UC Davis

"Musical Orbifolds" MC4
Jan. 22 Igor Ganichev
UC Berkeley
"BAMO Preparation: Advanced"  
Paul Zeitz
Univeristy of San Francisco
"BAMO Preparation: Beginners"
Jan. 29 Ted Alper
Stanford University
"AMC 10/12 Preparation"

 

Feb. 05 Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley
"AMC 10/12 Preparation" MC5
MC6
Feb. 12 Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley
"AMC 10/12 Exams held at BMC" MC5
Feb. 19

Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley

"BAMO General Prep"  
Feb. 26 Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley
"BAMO Exam at BMC: no circle session"  
Mar. 01 BAMO 2007 Grading
Mar. 04

Ivan Matic
UC Berkeley

"BAMO Aftermath"

MC6
MC7

Mar. 09 BAMO Awards Ceremony @ MSRI
Mar. 11

Vera Serganova
UC Berkeley

"Transformations of the Plane and their Use in Geometry" MC6
Mar. 18 Alexander Givental
UC Berkeley
"Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry (and Einstein's Relativity)"  
Mar. 25 Easter Break
Apr. 01 Brandy Weigers
UC Davis
"The Mathematics of Epidemiology: The Flue, Chicken Pox, and the Plague"

MC7
MC8

Apr. 08

Tom Rike
Oakland High School

"Dynamic Geometry" MC7
Apr. 15 Bjorn Poonen
UC Berkeley
"Linear Recursive Sequences" (PDF, PS)  
Apr. 22 Tatiana Shubin
San Jose State Univesity
Mathematical Induction  
Apr. 29 Vera Serganova
UC Berkeley
Topics in Number Theory/font> MC8
May 6 Tatiana Shubin
San Jose State University
TBA MC8