The Berkeley Math Circle

Handouts 2007-2008 (Archives)

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:

Monthly Contests:

Circle Archives

Instructor

Topic

Notes

Monthly Contest

Sep. 11

Zvezdelina Stankova

Mills College & UC Berkeley

"Monovariants, Part I"(PDFPS)

MC1

Sep. 18

Zvezdelina Stankova

Mills College & UC Berkeley

"Monovariants, Part II"(PDFPS)

 

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" (PDFPS)

MC1

Oct. 23

Tom Davis

Silcon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle

"Rubik's Cube and Group Theory, Part I" (Cube ProgramPDF)

 

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" (PDFPS)

MC2

MC3

Nov. 13

Quan Lam

UC Berkeley

"Infinity, Part I "

MC2

Nov. 20

Igor Ganichev

UC Berkeley

"Elementary Geometry Problems on Loci" (PDFPS)

 

Nov. 27

Tom Rike

Oakland High School

"Mass Point Geometry" (PDFPS)

 

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 - Oh My!"

 MC7
MC8

Apr. 08

Tom Rike

Oakland High School

"Dynamic Geometry"

MC7

Apr. 15

Bjorn Poonen

UC Berkeley

"Linear Recursive Sequences" (PDFPS)

 

Apr. 22

Tatiana Shubin

San Jose State Univesity

"Mathematical Induction"

 

Apr. 29

Vera Serganova

UC Berkeley

"Topics in Number Theory"

MC8

May 6

Tatiana Shubin

San Jose State University

"Mathematical Games"

MC8