The Berkeley Math Circle

Handouts 2008-2009 (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

Date

Instructor

University or Affiliation

Topic

Sep. 9

Zvezdelina Stankova

Mills College

Classical Geometry, Part I (PDFPS)

Sep. 16

Zvezdelina Stankova

Mills College

Classical Geometry, Part II (PDFPS)

 

Sep. 20: Saturday

Ivan Matic

Problems on Classical Geometry

Sep. 23

Joshua Zucker

Castilleja School

Numbers and Games (PDF

 

Sep. 27: Saturday

Lucas Garron

Problems in Numbers and Game 

Sep. 30

Joshua Zucker

Castilleja School

Games and Invariants (PDF)

 

Oct. 4: Saturday

Valentin Tonita

Problems on Games and Invariants

Oct. 07

Paul Zeitz

University of San Francisco

Graph Theory (PDF)

 

Oct. 11: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

Monthly Contest Solutions

Oct. 14

Paul Zeitz

University of San Francisco

Graph Theory (PDF)

 

Oct. 18: Saturday

Shuchao Bi

Problems in Graph Theory

Oct. 21

Quan Lam

UC Berkeley

New Ways of Looking at Old Stuff

 

Oct. 25: Saturday

Michael Pejic

Problems on New Ways of Looking at Old Stuff

Oct. 28

Tom Davis

Silicon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle

Conway's Rational Tangles (PDF)

 

Nov. 1: Saturday

Claudiu Raicu

Problems on Conway's Rational Tangles

Nov. 04

Olga Holtz

UC Berkeley

Classical Inequalities (PDF)

 

Nov. 8: Saturday

Michael Pejic

Problems on Classical Inequalities

Nov. 11

Vera Serganova

UC Berkeley

Combinatorics

 

Nov. 8: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

Monthly Contest Solutions & AMC8 Preparation

Nov. 18

Zvezdelina Stankova

BMC Director

AMC 8 Contest for Grades 8 & Below

Alexander Givental

UC Berkeley

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

 

Nov. 22: Saturday

Valentin Tonita

Problems on The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

Nov. 25

Robin Hartshorne

UC Berkeley

The Pentagon Revisited

 

Nov. 29: Saturday

Holiday: No Saturday Session

Dec. 02

Quan Lam

UC Berkeley

Old Stuff and Puzzles

 

Dec. 06: Saturday

Vicky Liu

Problems Related to Old Stuff and Puzzles

Dec. 09

Elwyn Berlekamp

UC Berkeley

Hat-Guessing Teams and Codes

 

Dec. 13: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

Monthly Contest Solutions

Dec. 16

Andrew Dudzik

BMC Alumnus

All About N-gons (PDF)

 

Dec. 20: Saturday

Andrew Dudzik

Problems Related All About N-gons

Dec. 23

Winter and New Year Break

Dec. 30

Winter and New Year's Break

Jan. 06

Tom Davis

Silicon Graphics & San Jose Math Circle

Zome Geometry ( PDF)

 

Jan. 10: Saturday

Shuchao Bi

Problems in Zome Geometry

Jan. 13

Ted Courant

Bentley School

Generating Functions, Infinite Series, and the Relation between the Discrete and Continuous (with little or no Calculus...) (PDF)

 

Jan. 17: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

Monthly Contest Solutions

Jan. 20

Brandy Wiegers

MSRI

The mathematics of population dynamics. (PDF)

 

Jan. 24: Saturday

Michael Pejic

Problems Related to the Previous Lecture

Jan. 27

Paul Zeitz

University of San Francisco

BAMO Preparation:
Beginners (PDF)

Igor Ganichev

UC Berkeley

BAMO Preparation:
Advanced (problems PDF, solutions PDF )

 

Jan. 31: Saturday

Shuchao Bi

BAMO Preparation

Feb. 03

Ted Alper

Stanford University

AMC 10/12 Preparation

 

Feb. 7: Saturday

Valentin Tonita

AMC 10/12 Preparation

Feb. 10

BMC Staff

AMC 10A and AMC 12A Proctored at BMC

 

Feb. 14: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

"Love" of Monthly Contest Solutions & BAMO Preparation

Feb. 17

Ivan Matic

BAMO Preparation, General (PDF)

 

Feb. 21: Saturday

Ivan Matic

BAMO Preparation

Feb. 24

Ivan Matic

BMC Associate Director

BAMO Exam at BMC from 3-7pm, 
No Regular Session

 

Feb. 28 Saturday

Claudiu Raicu

Problems Related to the Previous Lecture

Mar. 01

BAMO 2008 Grading

Mar. 03

Joshua Zucker

Castilleja School

BAMO Aftermath

 

Mar. 7: Saturday

Dinh Nguyen

Problems Related to the Previous Lecture

Mar. 08

BAMO Awards at MSRI

Mar. 10

Cliff Stoll

UC Berkeley

Klein Bottles, The Moebius Loop, and The Projective Plane

 

Mar. 14: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

Monthly Contest Solutions

Mar. 17

Michael Pejic

UC Berkeley

Mathematical Induction (PDF)

BMC Staff

AIME for qualifiers

 

Mar. 21: Saturday

Michael Pejic

Problems on Klein Bottles, the Moebius Loop, and the Projective Plane

Mar. 24

Spring Break

Mar. 31

Tatiana Shubin

San Jose State University

The Orchard Problem

 

Apr. 04: Saturday

Claudiu Raicu

Problems Related to the Previous Lecture

Apr. 07

Zvezdelina Stankova

Mills College

Multiplicative Functions (PDF)

 

Apr. 11: Saturday

Vicky Liu

Problems in Number Theory

Apr. 14

Zvezdelina Stankova

Mills College

Number Theory

 

Apr. 18: Saturday

Evan O'Dorney

Monthly Contest Solutions

Apr. 21

Tatiana Shubin

San Jose State University

Symmetry (PDFmore problems)

 

Apr. 25: Saturday

Ivan Matic

USAMO Preparation

Apr. 28

Thomas Rike

Oakland High School

Pell's Equation (PDF)

Ivan Matic

BMC Associate Director

USAMO April 28-29 for Qualifiers

 

May 02: Saturday

Andrew Dudzik

Problems Related to the Previous Lecture

May 03

End of the year Party

May 5

Lucas Garron

Stanford University and BMC Alumnus

Origami Construction