The Berkeley Math Circle
People
Zvezda Stankova
Director of Berkeley Math Circle
stankova@math.berkeley.edu
PhD, Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley
Harry Main-Luu
BMC Admin Assistant - MTRW Program Assistant
mathcircle.upper@gmail.com
Current BMC Instructors
Aaron Kleinman
aaronkleinman@gmail.com
23andMe, a biotech company, Mountain View
Adam Smith
Instructor
Simons Institute/ Boston University
Alain Valette
Alain.Valette@unine.ch
MSRI/Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
Alexander Paulin
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Ali Gurel
aligurel@alumni.caltech.edu
AlphaStar Academy, South Bay Area
Alina Ene
Instructor
Simons Institute
Boston University
Andrea Jedwab
anjedwab@gmail.com
Tehiyah Day School/ Saint Mary's College
Annie Raymond
Instructor
MSRI
University of Washington
Anuj Dawar
anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk
Simons/U. Cambridge, UK
Anupam Das
anupam.das@ens-lyon.fr
UCB/Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Austin Shapiro
austin.shapiro@gmail.com
Proof School
BMC Alumnus
Benjamin Moseley
bmoseley@wustl.edu
Simons/Washington U.
Bernt Wahl
berkeley@gmail.com
UC Berkeley
BMC Staff
Instructor
Bruno Benedetti
Instructor
MSRI
University of Miami
Carsten Schuett
Instructor
MSRI
Christian-Albrechts University, Germany
Chris Overton
chrisoverton@yahoo.com
Ph. D. Stanford, Algebraic Topology
Ayasdi
Ciprian Demeter
demeterc@indiana.edu
MSRI/Indiana U Bloomington
Cynthia Vinzant
Instructor
Simons Institute
NCSU
David Gomprecht
Instructor
Dalton School
New York Math Circle
Dmitry Fuchs
fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
UC Davis
Dustin Mixon
Instructor
mixon.23@osu.edu
Simons/OSU
Ellen Kulinsky
ekulinsky@berkeley.edu
BA UC Berkeley, UCLA Math Circle, BMC-Elementary
Elysee Wilson-Egolf
e.wilson-egolf@protonmail.com
BA in Math UCB, CEED Teacher Oakland
Eran Nevo
Instructor
MSRI
Hebrew University
Eric Allender
Instructor
allender@cs.rutgers.edu
Rutgers, State University of NJ
Eric Hallman
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Eric Price
Instructor
Simons Institute/ U Texas, Austin
Espen Slettnes
Instructor
Berkeley Math Circle Alumnus
Evan O'Dorney
eodorney@princeton.edu
Princeton University
BMC Alumnus
James Sethian
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Jesse Thorner
jesse.thorner@gmail.com
MSRI/Emory University
Joanna Ochremiak
joanna.zakrzewska@gmail.com
Simons/UPC Barcelona
Joshua Zucker
Colloquium speaker
Kelli Talaska
talaska@math.berkeley.edu
UCB/Octopus Math
Ken Ribet
Colloquium speaker
Khrystyna Serhiyenko
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Kristin DeVleming
Instructor
MSRI/ UW
Laura Pierson
lcpierson73@gmail.com
BMC Participant, MC Coordinator, USAJMO Winner
Lior Pachter
lpachter@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Lisa Goldberg
Instructor
UCB/ Aperio Group
Maia Averett
Instructor
Mills College
Manuel Sabin
Instructor
Simons/UC Berkeley
Masha Vlasenko
Instructor
MSRI/IMPAN Poland
Matthew Anderson
andersm2@union.edu
Simons/Union College, NY
Matyas Sustik
Instructor
WalmartLabs
Mihai Munteanu
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Natalya St. Clair
atalya.stclair@gmail.com
Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nathanael Fijalkow
nathanael.fijalkow@cs.ox.ac.uk
Simons/U. Oxford, UK
Nick Andersen
nandersen@math.ucla.edu
MSRI/UCLA
Nick Davidson
Instructor
MSRI
University of Oklahoma
Noah Lee
Assistant for Berkeley Math Circle Upper -- Fall 2016
koreannoah@berkeley.edu
Noah is a undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Applied Mathematics. Outside of class, Noah enjoys hanging out with friends, going to the gym, playing video games, and trying new foods.
Norm Prokup
Norm_Prokup@college-prep.org
College Preparatory School
Olga Maleva
Instructor
MSRI
University of Bermingham, UK
Paata Ivanisvili
Instructor
MSRI
Kent State University
Paul Zeitz
Professor of Mathematics
zeitz@usfca.edu
University of San Francisco
Peter Selinger
selinger@mathstat.cal.ca
Simons/Dalhousie University
Petra Munih
pmunih@gmail.com
PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U.
Pierre Simon
Instructor
UC Berkeley
Pratima Karpe
vapratim@gmail.com
Saint Mary's College
Quan Lam
quan.lam@berkeley.edu
Office of the UC President
WTMC
Ramon van Handel
Instructor
MSRI
Princeton University
Richard Borcherds
Professor of Mathematics
reb@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Robert Kleinberg
Simons Institute/Cornell U.
Samir Khuller
Instructor
Simons Institute
UMD
Sanjam Garg
sanjamg@berkeley.edu
EECS at UC Berkeley
Sara Tukachinsky
Instructor
MRSI/IAS
Sean Howe
Instructor
seanpkh@gmail.com
MSRI/Stanford University
Sergei Tabachnikov
Instructor
MRSI/Penn State
Serkan Hosten
Instructor
serkan@sfsu.edu
SFSU
Shay Moran
shaymoran1@gmail.com
Simons/UCSD
Sofya Raskhodnikova
Instructor
Simons/Boston U
Sungjin Im
sim3@ucmerced.edu
Simons/EECS at UC Merced
Swati Gupta
Instructor
MSRI
Simons Institute/ MIT
Tatiana Shubin
shubin@math.sjsu.edu
San Jose State University
Tom Davis
Co-Founder of Silicon Graphics
tomrdavis@earthlink.net
PhD, Organizer of San Jose Math Circle
Tomasz Tkocz
Instructor
MSRI
Princeton
Tomer Kotek
kotek@forsyte.at
Simons/Vienna U. of Technology
Ugo Montanari
ugo@di.unipi.it
Simons/Universita di Pisa, Italy
Vadim Volodsky
Instructor
MSRI/ U Oregon
Walaa Moursi
Instructor
Simons Institute
University of Calgary, Canada
Zandra Vinegar
z.ch3cooh@gmail.com
MoMath
Previous BMC Instructors
Aaron Abrams
Research Fellow
abrams@mathcs.emory.edu
MSRI/Emory University
Atlanta Math Circle
Adrien Kassel
Graduate Student
adrien.kassel@ens.fr
École Normale Supérieure, France/MSRI
Alex Zorn
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
awzorn@gmail.com
Alexander Furman
furman@uic.edu
MSRI/University of Illinois, Chicago
Alexander Givental
Professor of Mathematics
giventh@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Alexander Shapiro
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
alexander.m.shapiro@gmail.com
Alon Amit
alon.amit@gmail.com
Origami Logic
Amos Fiat
fiat@tau.ac.il
Simons Institute/Tel Aviv U.
Andre Henriques
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
a.g.henriques@uu.nl
MSRI/Utrecht University
Andrew Dudzik
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
adudzik@gmail.com
Art Benjamin
Professor of Mathematics
benjamin@math.hmc.edu
Harvey-Mudd College
Ayelet Lindenstrauss
Associate Professor of Mathematics
alindens@indiana.edu
MSRI/Indiana University
Bloomington Math Circle
Bernd Sturmfels
bernd@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Bjorn Poonen
Professor of Mathematics
poonen@math.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brandy Wiegers
Program Director, Outreach and Student Success
bwiegers@sfsu.edu
Center for Science and Mathematics Education, SCI 211
San Francisco State University
Brian Conrad
Professor of Mathematics
conrad@math.stanford.edu
Stanford University
Christina Sormani
Professor of Mathematics
sormanic@gmail.com
MSRI/CUNY GC and Lehman College
Claudiu Raicu
Postdoctoral Fellow
claudiu@math.berkeley.edu
Princton University
Cliff Stoll
Teacher/Author
kleinbottle@kleinbottle.com
Tehiyah Day School
Codina Cotar
Assistant Professor of Statistical Science
c.cotar@ucl.ac.uk
MSRI/University College, London
Cornelia Anna Van Cott
cvancott@usfca.edu
University of San Francisco
Dagan Karp
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
dkarp@math.berkeley.edu
Harvey Mudd College
Dan Asimov
asimov@msri.org
UC Berkeley
Dan-Andrei Geba
Associate Professor
dangeba@math.rochester.edu
University of Rochester
Dana Paquin
EPGY Head of Mathematics Programs Director
dpaquin@stanford.edu
Stanford Math Circle
Daniel Disegni
daniel.disegni@gmail.com
MSRI
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Daniel Juteau
daniel.juteau@gmail.com
MSRI
Caen University, Normandy, France
Danielle Fong
Cofounder and the chief scientist at LightSail Energy
daniellefong@daniellefong.com
Danielle is a cofounder and the chief scientist at LightSail Energy, a green energy startup company, applying advances in thermodynamics to challenges in energy storage and generation. She publishes essays at DanielleFong.com
Dave Auckly
Associate Director Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
auckly@msri.org
Davi Maximo
maximo@math.utexas.edu
MSRI/Stanford University
Dimitar Grantcharov
Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Texas Arlington
grandim@uta.edu
Dimitri Zvonkine
Researcher in Mathematics
dimitri.zvonkine@gmail.com
University Paris-VI/MSRI
Dimitry Kleinbock
kleinbock@brandeis.edu
MSRI
Brandeis University
Dmitry Fuchs
Professor of Mathematics
fuchs@sine.math.ucdavis.edu
UC Davis
Eleonara Di Nezza
e.di-nezza@imperial.ac.uk
MSRI/Imperial College, London
Elina Robeva
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
erobeva@berkeley.edu
Elwyn Berlekamp
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
berlek@gmail.com
UC Berkeley
Emanuel Indrei
Postdoctoral Fellow
eindrei@math.utexas.edu
MSRI/University of Texas at Austin
Emily Riehl
Postdoctoral Fellow
eriehl@math.harvard.edu
MSRI/Harvard University
Ernesto Nungesser
Postdoctoral Fellow
ernesto.nungesser@gmail.com
MSRI/Trinity College Dublin
Eugenia Rosu
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
rosu@math.berkeley.edu
Evan Chen
chen.evan6@gmail.com
Harvard University
BMC Alumnus
Federico Ardila
Associate Professor San Francisco State University
federico@math.sfsu.edu
Frank Sottile
sottile@hilbert.math.tamu.edu
Simons Institute
Texas A&M University
Gabriel Carroll
gabriel.d.carroll@gmail.com
Stanford University
Gregorio Malajovich
gregorio.malajovich@gmail.com
Simons Institute
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Grigor Sargsyan
Associate Professor of Mathematics
grigor@math.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
Hong Chen
PhD Physics, Toronto/Radiation Oncology, Keiser
hongchenmc@gmail.com
Ian Le
iantuanle@gmail.com
University of Chicago
Igor Ganichev
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
igor@cs.berkeley.edu
Ilia Smilga
Graduate Student
smilga@clipper.ens.fr
École Normale Supérieure, France/MSRI
Ioana Dumitriu
Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
dumitriu@math.berkeley.edu
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington, Seattle
Ioannis Emiris
emiris@di.uoa.gr
Simons Institute
University of Athens, Greece
Iryna Kashuba
ikashuba@gmail.com
UC Berkeley
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ivan Matic
Former BMC Assistant, Postdoctoral Fellow
matic@math.berkeley.edu
Duke University
James Propp
Professor of Mathematics
jamespropp@gmail.com
University of Massachusetts Lowell/UCB
Jarek Buczynski
jabu@mimuw.edu.pl
Simons Institute
Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences
Jayadev Athreya
jathreya@illinois.edu
MSRI
Illinois Geometry Lab, University of Illinois
Jelani Nelson
Postoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Computer Science
minilek@alum.mit.edu
MSRI/IAS/Harvard
Joe Buhler
Former Deputy Director, MSRI
buhler@ccrwest.org
Director, Centre for Communications Research, San Diego
John McSweeney
Research Assistant Professor
john.mcsweeney80@gmail.com
Concordia/MSRI
John Schulman
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
joschu@berkeley.edu
Joseph Hirsh
Instructor in Pure Mathematics
josephhirsh@gmail.com
MSRI/MIT
Keith Ball
Professor of Mathematics
kmb@math.ucl.ac.uk
London's Global University (UCL)/MSRI
Keith Conrad
Professor of Mathematics
kconrad@math.uconn.edu
University of Connecticut
Kim Eunjung
eunjungkim78@gmail.com
Simons Institute
Kiran Kedlaya
Associate Professor of Mathematics
kedlaya@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lei Yang
lyang861028@gmail.com
MSRI
Ohio State University
Lilit Martirosyan
Former BMC Assistant
lilit@math.berkeley.edu
Math Graduate Student at UC Berkeley
Madhusudan Manjunath
madhu@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Marcus Khuri
Professor of Mathematics
khuri@math.sunysb.edu
MSRI/Stony Brook University
Maria Colombo
PhD Student
maria.colombo@sns.it
MSRI/Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Maria Gillespie
UC Berkeley
monks@math.berkeley.edu
Maryanthe Malliaris
mem@math.uchicago.edu
L.E. Dickson Instructor MSRI/University of Chicago
Matt Beck
Associate Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
Michael Larsen
Professor of Mathematics
mjlarsen@indiana.edu
MSRI/Indiana University
Bloomington Math Circle
Michael Luby
theluby@ieee.org
Simons Institute
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Mikael Passare
Professor of Mathematics
passare@math.su.se
University of Stockholm
Miklos Racz
Graduate Student in Statistics
racz@stat.berkeley.edu
UCB/MSRI
Mira Bernstein
Researcher in Health Economics
mirabernstein@gmail.com
Cambridge, MA, USA
Canada MathCamp Founder and Director
Nadya Gurevich
ngur@math.bgu.ac.il
MSRI
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Ngoc Tran
Graduate Student in Statistics
tran@stat.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Nicolas Saxce
saxce@ma.huji.ac.il
MSRI
Hebrew University
Olga Holtz
Professor of Mathematics
holtz@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Paul Melvin
Professor of Mathematics
pmelvin@brynmawr.edu
Bryn Mawr College
Peter Bates
MSRI/Michigan State
bates@math.msu.edu
Peter Winker
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
peter.winkler@dartmouth.edu
MSRI/Dartmouth
Piotr Achinger
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
piotr.achinger@gmail.com
Po-Shen Loh
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences
ploh@cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
Leader of the USA International Math Olympiad Team
Robert Bryant
Director
bryant@msri.org
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Robert Kusner
MSRI/U. Massachusetts at Amherst
kusner@math.umass.edu
Robin Hartshorne
Professor of Mathematics
robin@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Sam Hopkins
samhop@cs.cornell.edu
Simons Institute
Cornell University
Sam Vandervelde
Assistant Professor
samv@mandlebrot.org
St. Lawrence University
Sean Tilson
Graduate Student
stilson@wayne.edu
MSRI/Wayne State University
Sergei Ovchinnikov
Professor of Mathematics
sergei@sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University
Shmuel Weinberger
Professor of Mathematics
shmuel@math.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago/MSRI
Shuangjian Zhang
Graduate Student
shuangjian.zhang@mail.utoronto.ca
MSRI/University of Toronto
Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Assistant Professor of the School of Computing
suresh@cs.utah.edu
Simons Institute/University of Utah
Svente Linusson
Professor of Mathematics
linusson@math.kth.se
Stockholm U (dot),Sweden/MSRI
Svetlana Roudenko
MSRI/George Washington
roudenko@gwu.edu
Ted Alper
EPGY
tmalper@stanford.edu
Stanford Math Circle
Ted Courant
Math Department Chair
tcourant@bentleyschool.net
The Bentley School
Oakland/East Bay Math Circle
Thomas Wasserman
thomaswasserman@gmail.com
MSRI/University of Oxford
Tom Rike
Mathematics Teacher
tricycle222@mac.com
Oakland High School
Oakland Math Circle
Valentin Tonita
Project Researcher
valentin.tonita@ipmu.jp
Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Japan
Vera Vertesi
C L E Moore Instuctor
vertesi@math.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Meyerson
meyerson@msri.org
MSRI/Helsinki
Wung-Kum Fong
wungkum@alum.mit.edu
Alumnae, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yael Degany
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
yael@math.berkeley.edu
Yvonne Lai
RTG Assistant Professor
lai@umich.edu
University of Michigan
Zack Judson
Former Lecturer, UC Berkeley
judsonzack@deanza.edu
DeAnza Community College
Zhiren Wang
Postoctoral Fellow
zhirenw@msri.org
MSRI
Zsuzsanna Dansco
zsuzsi@math.toronto.edu
MSRI
Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences
BMC Hall of Fame
Alexandra Michel
Assistant for BMC-Beginners & BMC-Intermediate I
Alexandra Michel is a student at Mills College, where she is working on her BA in Mathematics. She hopes to go on to a PhD program in mathematics after graduating from Mills in spring of 2015. In addition to doing math, she loves to dance, travel, and meet new people.
amichel@mills.edu
Hojae Lee
Assistant for Berkeley Math Circle Upper (2011-2015)
Undergraduate Student at UC Berkeley.
lee.hojae.93@gmail.com
Nikolay Grantcharov
Assistant for Berkeley Math Circle Upper
Nikolay is a undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Mathematics.
nikolayg@berkeley.edu
Roseanna Pealatere
Academic Assistant for BMC-Beginners
Roseanna is a senior at Mills College in Oakland. She is a major in Mathematics and a minor in Biology. She is also beginning a Master's program in Education and plans to pursue her teaching credentials in Mathematics and Biology for teaching in junior high and high schools.
eat_good_dirt@yahoo.com
Yaron Greenwald
Assistant for BMC-Beginners
Yaron recently graduated from Berkeley High School and five years of attending Math Circle as a student. He will be starting at Brandeis next fall.
cm256@comcast.net