Berkeley Math Circle

For information on the schedule of the Berkeley Math Circle (BMC) Elementary sessions, please go to BMC Elementary.

The Beginner and Advanced sessions of the BMC will be held on Tuesdays from 6PM to 8PM on the UC Berkeley Campus. The instructors will begin at 6PM sharp and parking is limited, so please plan on arriving 10 to 15 minutes earlier. Late arrivals are discouraged since they cause distraction to the sessions.

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January

Date	Instructor________ University or Affiliation	Topic	Room Number
Sep. 8	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College	Before and Beyond IMO? (Joint) Read "Session 4. Number Theory I" from the BMC book.	Evans 740
Sep. 15	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College	Introduction to Number Theory (Beginner) For more, read "Session 4. Number Theory I" from the BMC book.	Evans 740
Sep. 15	Ian Le Northwestern University	Equilateral Triangles, Fermat, Napoleon, Miquel and Simson (Advanced)	Evans 736
Sep. 22	Ivan Matic UC Berkeley	Introduction to Geometry (Beginner) Read "Session 11. Favorite problems from the BMC, Circle Geometry" from the BMC book.	Evans 740
Sep. 22	Ted Courant Bentley School	Geometric Transformations with an Introduction to Techniques from Projective Geometry, Part I (Advanced)	Evans 736
Sep. 29	Linda Green Mills College	Euler Number of Spheres (Beginner)	Evans 740
Sep. 29	Ted Courant Bentley School	Geometric Transformations with an Introduction to Techniques from Projective Geometry, Part II (Advanced)	Evans 736
Oct. 6	Linda Green Mills College	Tic-Tac-Toe on a Torus and other Diversions in Topology (Beginner)	Evans 60
Oct. 6	Evan O'Dorney BMC Student, IMO Participant	Olympiad Problems for the Diehard (Advanced)	Evans 75
Oct. 13	Joshua Zucker MSRI, BAMO director	Coins in Twoland (Beginner)	Evans 60
Oct. 13	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College	Grinding out the Bulgarian Olympiad Problems: the Beauty and the Background (advanced)	Evans 75
Oct. 20	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco, SFMC Director	Graph Theory for Beginners (Beginner)	Evans 740
Oct. 20	Ivan Matic UC Berkeley	Complex Generating Functions (Advanced)	Evans 736
Oct. 27	Quan Lam Office of the UC President	AMC 8 Preparation(Beginner)	Evans 740
Oct. 27	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco, SFMC Director	Graph Theory and Ramsey Theory, Part II (Advanced)	Evans 736
Nov. 3	Quan Lam Office of UC President	AMC 8 Preparation (Beginner)	Evans 740
Nov. 3	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco, SFMC Director	Van der Waerden's Theorem (Advanced)	Evans 736
Nov. 10	Vera Serganova UC Berkeley	Problems (Beginner) Read "Session 5. A Few Words about Proofs, Part I" from the BMC book.	Evans 740
Nov. 10	David Auckly MSRI	Solving Higher Degree Polynomial Equations (Advanced) Read "Session 9. Complex Numbers" from the BMC book.	Evans 736
Nov. 17	BMC Staff	AMC 8 Competition for Grades 8 and Below	Evans 740
Nov. 17	Dan Asimov UC Berkeley	The Wonderful Complex Numbers (Advanced)	Evans 736
Nov. 24	Alexander Givental UC Berkeley	Geometry of Surfaces (Beginner)	Evans 740
Nov. 24	Dimitri Zvonkine MSRI	Generating Series and Nice Number Sequences (Advanced)	Evans 736
Dec. 1	Alexander Givental UC Berkeley	TBA (Beginner)	Evans 60
Dec. 1	Maia Averett Mills College	Knot Theory (Advanced)	Evans 736
Dec. 8	Quan Lam Office of the UC President	TBA (Joint)/ New Year's Party	TBA
Dec. 15	Michael Pejic UC Berkeley	TBA (Beginner)	Evans 740
Dec. 15	Mikael Passare University of Stockholm	TBA (Advanced)	Evans 736
Dec. 22	Winter and New Year Break
Dec. 29	Winter and New Year's Break
Jan. 5	Alon Amit Google	TBA (Beginner)	Evans 740
Jan. 5	Tom Rike Oakland High School	Heptadecagon (Advanced)	Evans 736
Jan. 12	Vera Vertesi MSRI	TBA(Beginner)	Evans 740
Jan. 12	Olga Holtz UC Berkeley	TBA (Advanced)	Evans 736
Jan.14	Who Wants to Be a Mathematician? at the Moscone Center in San Francisco
Jan. 19	Matt Beck San Francisco State	Graph Coloring (Beginner)	Evans 740
Jan. 19	Maksim Maydanskiy Stanford University	What Is a Tropical Line? (Advanced)	Evans 736
Jan. 26	Robin Hartshorne UC Berkeley	TBA (Joint)	Evans 740
Feb. 2	Michael Pejic UC Berkeley	AMC Preparation (Beginner)	Evans 740
Feb. 2	Paul Melvin Bryn Mawr College	TBA (Advanced)	Evans 736
Feb. 9	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College	TBA (Beginner)	Evans 740
Feb. 9	BMC Staff	AMC 10/12 Competition	Evans 736
Feb. 16	Ivan Matic UC Berkeley	BAMO Preparation (Beginner)	Evans 740
Feb. 16	Andrew Dudzik UC Berkeley	BAMO Preparation (Advanced)	Evans 736
Feb. 23	BAMO Staff	BAMO Competition (no regular session)	Evans 740
Feb. 28	BAMO 2008 Grading
Mar. 2	Joshua Zucker MSRI, BAMO Director	BAMO Aftermath (Beginner)	Evans 740
Mar. 2	Dimitri Zvonkine MSRI	TBA (Advanced)	Evans 736
Mar. 7	BAMO Awards at MSRI
Mar. 9	Tatiana Shubin San Jose State University	Introduction to Group Theory I(Beginner)	Evans 740
Mar. 9	Ivan Matic UC Berkeley	AIME Preparation (Advanced)	Evans 736
Mar. 16	Cliff Stoll	Johnson Solids (Joint)	Evans 740
Mar. 16	BMC Staff	AIME Competition for Qualifiers	Evans 736
Mar. 23	Spring Break
Mar. 30	Tom Rike Oakland High School	The Bernoulli Numbers (Beginners)	Evans 740
Mar. 30	Vera Serganova UC Berkeley	TBA (Advanced)	Evans 736
Apr. 6	Tom Davis Silicon Graphics (Co-Founder), SJMC Coordinator	TBA (Beginners)	Evans 740
Apr. 6	Igor Ganichev UC Berkeley	TBA (Advanced)	Evans 736
Apr. 13	Tatiana Shubin San Jose State University	Introduction to Group Theory II(Beginner)	Evans 740
Apr. 13	Tom Davis Silicon Graphics (Co-Founder), SJMC Coordinator	TBA (advanced)	Evans 736
Apr. 20	Brandy Wiegers MSRI, OMC Director	TBA (Beginners)	Evans 740
Apr. 20	Evan O' Dorney BMC Participant	USAMO Preparation (Advanced)	Evans 736
Apr. 27	Alon Amit Google	Probability Paradoxes (Beginners)	Evans 740
	Claudiu Raicu UC Berkeley	Irreducibility of Polynomials over Z (Advanced)	Evans 736
	BMC Staff	USAMO Competition for Qualifiers	TBA
May 2	End of the Year Party
May 4	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College	TBA (Joint)	Evans 740