The Berkeley Math Circle
People
Zvezda Stankova
Director of Berkeley Math Circle
stankova@math.berkeley.edu
PhD, Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley
Anna Vardapetyan
Math Taught the Right Way Administrative Assistant
annav.2000@berkeley.edu
Anna is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology and Public Health with a minor in Data Science. She's excited to work at the BMC because it reminds her of her unusual and fun upbringing in mathematics. She's an alumna of the Russian School of Mathematics.
Ovya Ganesan
Berkeley Math Circle-Upper Administrative Assistant
ganesanovya@berkeley.edu
Ovya is an undergraduate at Berkeley majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology-Genetics. She loves the Berkeley Math Circle because it provides an opportunity for young students to be challenged and inspired by mathematics, which is something that unfortunately does not happen very often in regular curriculums.
Selena Ding
BMC- Upper Beginners I & II Assistant
18dingselena@berkeley.edu
Selena is an undergraduate at Berkeley majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology. She loves the Berkeley Math Circle because math is too cool to only be taught in school.
Current BMC Instructors
Aaron Kleinman
aaronkleinman@gmail.com
23andMe, a biotech company, Mountain View
Ali Gurel
aligurel@alumni.caltech.edu
AlphaStar Academy, South Bay Area
Bernt Wahl
berkeley@gmail.com
UC Berkeley
BMC Staff
Brian Williams
MSRI/Northwestern U.
Charles Fougeron
MSRI/Max-Planck-Institute
charles.fougeron@normalesup.org
Chris Kottke
MSRI/New College of Florida
ckottke@ncf.edu
Chris Overton
chrisoverton@yahoo.com
Ph. D. Stanford, Algebraic Topology
Nauto
Colleen Delaney
crdelane@indiana.edu
MSRI/Indiana University
PhD UCSB Mathematical physics
Dami Lee
MSRI/U. Washington
damilee@uw.edu
Daniel Grieser
MSRI/Universität Oldenburg
daniel.grieser@uol.de
Ellen Kulinsky
ekulinsky@aopsacademy.org
AoPS
BA UC Berkeley, UCLA Math Circle, BMC-Elementary
Elysee Wilson-Egolf
e.wilson-egolf@protonmail.com
UCB/Urban School of SF
BA in Math UCB, CEED Teacher Oakland
Emiliano Gomez
Lecturer at UC Berkeley
emgomez@berkeley.edu
Espen Slettnes
BMC Student and Instructor
Berkeley Math Circle Alumnus
Henri Picciotto
Math Education Consultant and Curriculum Developer
henri@mathed.page
Igor Ganichev
Ph.D. UC Berkeley
igor@cs.berkeley.edu
Google Inc.
Irene Lo
Stanford/Columbia U.
ilo@stanford.edu
Jacob Shapiro
MSRI/Australian National U.
jzshapiro@gmail.com
Jayadev Athreya
MSRI/U. Washington. Illinois Geometry Lab, University of Illinois
jathreya@uw.edu
Joshua Zucker
AoPS
Katrina Morgan
MSRI/UNC-Chapel Hill
katri@live.unc.edu
Kelli Talaska
talaska@math.berkeley.edu
UCB/Octopus Math
Kolya Malkin
MSRI/Yale
kolya_malkin@hotmail.com
Konstantin Kakaes
Simons Institute
kakaes@berkeley.edu
Laura Pierson
Harvard
lcpierson73@gmail.com
BMC Participant, MC Coordinator, USAJMO Winner
Lisa Goldberg
UCB/ Aperio Group
Melanie Matchett Wood
UCB
mmwood@berkeley.edu
Nikhil Sahoo
Undergraduate Mathematics Major at UC Berkeley
nikhil.sahoo@berkeley.edu
Norm Prokup
Norm_Prokup@college-prep.org
College Preparatory School
Olga Holtz
Professor of Mathematics
holtz@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Pablo Ocal
MSRI/Texas A&M University
pablosanchezocal@gmail.com
Paula Verdugo
MSRI
paula.verdugo@hdr.mq.edu.au
Pierre Simon
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley
Pratima Karpe
vapratim@gmail.com
IIT Bombay/SUNY at Buffalo
Saint Mary's College
Quan Lam
quan.lam@berkeley.edu
Office of the UC President
WTMC
Richard Borcherds
Professor of Mathematics
reb@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Roy Zhao
UCB
roy.h.zhao@gmail.com
Stephen Morgan
MSRI/U.Sydney
stephen.morgan@sydney.edu.au
Ted Alper
Stanford MC
tmalper@stanford.edu
Yun Lu
Simons/University of Edinburgh
y.lu-59@sms.ed.ac.uk
Zsuzsanna Dancso
MSRI/U.Sydney
zsdancso@gmail.com
Previous BMC Instructors
Aaron Abrams
Research Fellow
abrams@mathcs.emory.edu
MSRI/Emory University
Atlanta Math Circle
Adam Smith
Simons Institute/ Boston University
Adrien Kassel
Graduate Student
adrien.kassel@ens.fr
École Normale Supérieure, France/MSRI
Alain Valette
Alain.Valette@unine.ch
MSRI/Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland
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 Paulin
Lecturer of Mathematics at UC Berkeley
Alexander Shapiro
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
alexander.m.shapiro@gmail.com
Alina Ene
Simons Institute
Boston University
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
Andrea Jedwab
anjedwab@gmail.com
Tehiyah Day School/ Saint Mary's College
Andrew Dudzik
Graduate Student UC Berkeley
adudzik@gmail.com
Annie Raymond
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
Art Benjamin
Professor of Mathematics
benjamin@math.hmc.edu
Harvey-Mudd College
Austin Shapiro
austin.shapiro@gmail.com
Proof School
BMC Alumnus
Ayelet Lindenstrauss
Associate Professor of Mathematics
alindens@indiana.edu
MSRI/Indiana University
Bloomington Math Circle
Benjamin Moseley
bmoseley@wustl.edu
Simons/Washington U.
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
Bruno Benedetti
MSRI
University of Miami
Carsten Schuett
MSRI
Christian-Albrechts University, Germany
Christina Sormani
Professor of Mathematics
sormanic@gmail.com
MSRI/CUNY GC and Lehman College
Ciprian Demeter
demeterc@indiana.edu
MSRI/Indiana U Bloomington
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
Cynthia Vinzant
Simons Institute
NCSU
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
David Gomprecht
Dalton School
New York Math Circle
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
Dmitry Fuchs
fuchs@math.ucdavis.edu
UC Davis
Dmitry Vaintrob
Visiting Assistant Professor at UCB
Dustin Mixon
Assistant Professor at Ohio State University
mixon.23@osu.edu
Simons/OSU
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
Eran Nevo
Professor at Einstein Institute of Mathematics
MSRI
Hebrew University
Eric Allender
Distinguished Professor at Rutgers
allender@cs.rutgers.edu
Rutgers, State University of NJ
Eric Hallman
PhD candidate at UCB Berkeley
Eric Price
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Simons Institute/ U Texas, Austin
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
Evan O'Dorney
eodorney@princeton.edu
Princeton 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
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
James Propp
Professor of Mathematics
jamespropp@gmail.com
University of Massachusetts Lowell/UCB
James Sethian
Professor at UC Berkeley
Jarek Buczynski
jabu@mimuw.edu.pl
Simons Institute
Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences
Jelani Nelson
Postoctoral Fellow in Theoretical Computer Science
minilek@alum.mit.edu
MSRI/IAS/Harvard
Jesse Thorner
jesse.thorner@gmail.com
MSRI/Emory University
Joanna Ochremiak
joanna.zakrzewska@gmail.com
Simons/UPC Barcelona
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
Ken Ribet
Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley
AMS President
Khrystyna Serhiyenko
Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington.
Kim Eunjung
eunjungkim78@gmail.com
Simons Institute
Kiran Kedlaya
Associate Professor of Mathematics
kedlaya@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kristin DeVleming
Postdoc at UCSD Math Department
MSRI/ UW
Lei Yang
lyang861028@gmail.com
MSRI
Ohio State University
Lior Pachter
lpachter@math.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Madhusudan Manjunath
madhu@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Maia Averett
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Mills College
Manuel Sabin
PhD candidate at UC Berkeley
Simons/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
Masha Vlasenko
Research fellow
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
MSRI/IMPAN Poland
Matt Beck
Associate Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
Matthew Anderson
andersm2@union.edu
Simons/Union College, NY
Matyas Sustik
Software Engineer
WalmartLabs
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
Mihai Munteanu
Postdoc in Mathematics
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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
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
Ngoc Tran
Graduate Student in Statistics
tran@stat.berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley
Nick Andersen
nandersen@math.ucla.edu
MSRI/UCLA
Nick Davidson
Postdoc in Mathematics
University of Oklahoma
MSRI
Nicolas Saxce
saxce@ma.huji.ac.il
MSRI
Hebrew University
Olga Maleva
MSRI
University of Bermingham, UK
Paata Ivanisvili
Assistant Professor at UC Irvine
MSRI
Kent State University
Paul Melvin
Professor of Mathematics
pmelvin@brynmawr.edu
Bryn Mawr College
Paul Zeitz
Professor of Mathematics
zeitz@usfca.edu
University of San Francisco
Peter Bates
MSRI/Michigan State
bates@math.msu.edu
Peter Selinger
selinger@mathstat.cal.ca
Simons/Dalhousie University
Peter Winker
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
peter.winkler@dartmouth.edu
MSRI/Dartmouth
Petra Munih
pmunih@gmail.com
PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U.
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
Ramon van Handel
Associate Professor
Princeton University
MSRI
Robert Bryant
Director
bryant@msri.org
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Robert Kleinberg
Simons Institute/Cornell U.
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
Samir Khuller
Chair of Computer Science at Northwestern University
Simons Institute
UMD
Sanjam Garg
sanjamg@berkeley.edu
EECS at UC Berkeley
Sara Tukachinsky
sarabt1@gmail.com
MRSI/IAS
Sean Howe
Assistant Professor in Mathematics at University of Utah
seanpkh@gmail.com
MSRI/Stanford University
Sean Tilson
Graduate Student
stilson@wayne.edu
MSRI/Wayne State University
Sergei Ovchinnikov
Professor of Mathematics
sergei@sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University
Sergei Tabachnikov
Professor
MRSI
Penn State University
Serkan Hosten
Professor San Francisco State University
serkan@sfsu.edu
SFSU
Shay Moran
shaymoran1@gmail.com
Simons/UCSD
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
Sofya Raskhodnikova
Professor and Associate Chair of the Faculty, Computer Science
Simons/Boston U
Sungjin Im
sim3@ucmerced.edu
Simons/EECS at UC Merced
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
Swati Gupta
Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech
MSRI
Simons Institute/ MIT
Tatiana Shubin
shubin@math.sjsu.edu
San Jose State University
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 Davis
Co-Founder of Silicon Graphics
tomrdavis@earthlink.net
PhD, Organizer of San Jose Math Circle
Tom Rike
Mathematics Teacher
tricycle222@mac.com
Oakland High School
Oakland Math Circle
Tomasz Tkocz
Assistant Professor Carnegie Mellon University Department of Mathematical Sciences
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
MSRI/ U Oregon
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
Walaa Moursi
Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary
Simons Institute
University of Calgary, Canada
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
Zandra Vinegar
z.ch3cooh@gmail.com
MoMath
Zhiren Wang
Postoctoral Fellow
zhirenw@msri.org
MSRI
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
Harry Main-Luu
UW-Madison, PhD Student
BMC-Upper Admin and MTRW Assistant (2016-2019)
BMC and MTRW Instructor (2017-2019)
UC Berkeley, BA in Mathematics
Harry is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, majoring in pure Mathematics with a minor in Creative Writing and a minor in Cal Teach. Prior to transferring to Berkeley, Harry worked as a Performance Manager at the multi-venue theater Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Orange County. Harry was born and raised in Vietnam where mathematics was taught very differently. BMC and MTRW bring back fond childhood memories when he developed his love for the blackboard and the colorful chalks.
hailuu89@berkeley.edu
Hojae Lee
Assistant for Berkeley Math Circle Upper (2011-2015)
Undergraduate Student at UC Berkeley.
lee.hojae.93@gmail.com
Ivan Matic
Former BMC Assistant, Postdoctoral Fellow
Duke University
matic@math.berkeley.edu
Lilit Martirosyan
Former BMC Assistant
Math Graduate Student at UC Berkeley
lilit@math.berkeley.edu
Nikolay Grantcharov
Assistant for Berkeley Math Circle Upper
Nikolay is a undergraduate at UC Berkeley majoring in Mathematics.
nikolayg@berkeley.edu
Niraek Jain-Sharma
Math Taught the Right Way Administrative Assistant
niraekjs@berkeley.edu
Noah Lee
Assistant for Berkeley Math Circle Upper -- Fall 2016
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.
koreannoah@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