Thank you for your interest in the BMC Elementary. Enrollment for the Fall 2013 is now open. If you are interested in applying to BMC Elementary for the Fall 2013, please send us an enrollment request e-mail to BMC.Elementary.Enrollment@gmail.com with your child's name and grade level in the subject line AND follow the enrollment instructions in Application form for BMC Elementary. Earlier applications will have higher priority. We are not planning to review the new applications till the beginning of June. At that time we will contact you if a space becomes available. The deadline for applying for the Fall 2013 semester is May 14th, 2013.

Every year more and more children apply to BMC Elementary. Unfortunately, we do not have enough instructors and rooms to accept all the children, applying to BMC Elementary. Students, accepted to the BMC Elementary for the Fall 2013 session, will be sent a "Welcome" email. Students, who will not be accepted for the Fall 2013, will be put on our waiting list.

If you have an older child, 5th grade or above, please apply to BMC by clicking "Apply for BMC" button on the left.

• BMC Elementary I (grades 1 and 2)

  Class I A will meet in room 891, Evans Hall, from 6:10 PM to 7:00 PM.

  Class I B will meet in room 959, Evans Hall, from 5:10 PM to 6:00 PM.

  Class I C will meet in room 959, Evans Hall, from 6:10 PM to 7:00 PM.

• BMC Elementary II (grades 3 and 4)

  Class II A will meet in room 891, Evans Hall, from 5:10 PM to 6:00 PM.

  Class II B will meet in room 891, Evans Hall, from 7:10 PM to 8:00 PM.

  Class II C will meet in room 939, Evans Hall, from 7:10 PM to 8:00 PM.

Thank you for your interest in the BMC Elementary. Enrollment for the Spring 2013 is now complete. If you are interested in placing your child on our waiting list for the Fall 2013, please send us an an enrollment request e-mail to BMC.Elementary.Enrollment@gmail.com with your child's name and grade level in the subject line AND follow the enrollment instructions in Application form for BMC Elementary. Earlier applications will have higher priority. We are not planning to review the new applications till the beginning of June. At that time we will contact you if a space becomes available. The deadline for the Fall 2013 semester is May 16th, 2013.

Every year more and more children apply to BMC Elementary. Unfortunately, we do not have enough instructors and rooms to accept all the children applying to BMC Elementary. Students, accepted to the BMC Elementary for the Fall 2013 session, will be sent a "Welcome" email. Students, who will not be accepted for the Fall 2013, will be put on our waiting list.

If you have an older child, 5th grade or above, please apply to BMC by clicking "Apply for BMC" button on the left. Please check our website periodically for the updates.

A local resident of the East Bay, Laura Givental (bmc.elementary@gmail.com) joined Natalia Rozhkovskaya to teach the BMC Elementary in the Fall semester of 2009. After graduating from a math and physics high school, Laura obtained her B.A. and Masters Degrees in applied mathematics at the Moscow school of "Kerosinka". She has been working, first in Russia and then in the US, as a software engineer and consultant. Her son Emile, currently a fifth-grader, first visited BMC in 1998 prenatally, and now feels ready to attend the middle school chapter of it on his own. Educating Emile has been challenging and rewarding for Laura, and she brought this unique expertise to BMC Elementary.

Elena Blanter (elena.blanter@gmail.com), a Berkeley resident, received her M.A. in Mathematics from the St. Petersburg University in Russia and has teaching credentials from the same school. Elena's many years of experience span mathematical risk modeling, statistical analysis, and development of financial analytical software. In addition, Elena privately teaches mathematics to elementary school children and Math Magic after school enrichment program in Berkeley and Orinda schools. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to bring her experience and passions to the BMC Elementary.

Sergei Ovchinnikov (sergei@sfsu.edu) is a Professor of Mathematics at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Moscow University in 1971. After having held various research and teaching positions in the former Soviet Union, Sergei immigrated to the United States in 1980. He was a Research Associate at the Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley, from June 1980 until September 1981 when he joined the Mathematics Department of SFSU. Sergei has been pursuing research in functional analysis and mathematical social sciences since 1966. His current research interests are in the area of applied discrete mathematics.

Natalia Rozhkovskaya (rozhkovs@math.ksu.edu) is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Kansas State University - Manhattan. Her primary research interests are representation theory of Lie groups, Lie algebras and quantum groups. In her hometown she had organized a small math circle for first-grade students, who enjoyed this experience a lot. In fall 2009 Natalia participated in the program in Tropical Geometry at MSRI. While visiting Berkeley for few months, she offered her experience and enthusiasm to create a chapter of math circle for little ones.

Dave Auckly (auckly@msri.org) earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and then held a postdoctorial position at UT Austin followed by an NSF postdoc at UC Berkeley. He then moved to Kansas State University before taking the Associate Director position at MSRI. His research interests cover a broad range of geometry/topology and overlap with PDE, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry. He lights up like the Vegas strip when he talks about mathematics. Dave has directed around 30 undergraduate and graduate level research projects and he has been recognized with several teaching awards. In addition to mathematics, Dave enjoys being silly with his wife and two little children. He also enjoys any time that he can spend in the mountains.

Vera Serganova (serganov@math.berkeley.edu) is a Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. She got her PhD in Russia from St. Petersburg University in 1988. Vera moved to US in 1990 and to Berkeley in 1992. Her research interests are in representation theory and algebraic geometry. Vera teaches high and middle school students at Berkeley Math Circle from 1998.

Ilya Zakharevich (ilya@math.berkeley.edu) teaches on and off from 1981. He received his PhD in mathematics 1990 in Moscow. He moved to US in 1990 and to Berkeley in 2001. His research interests in mathematics are integrable systems and analysis.