The Berkeley Math Circle

Calendar

BMC sessions are scheduled on Wednesdays at UC Berkeley:

Session

Time

Room

Beginners I

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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Beginners II

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

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Intermediate I

6:10 PM to 7:55 PM

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Intermediate II

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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Advanced

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

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Please NOTE:

  • The starting times are sharp and parking is limited, so please plan on arriving 10 to 15 minutes prior in order to be situated and ready for the session.
  • Late arrivals cause disturbance and distraction and therefore are strongly discouraged.
  • Regarding the Monthly Contest schedule, you'll find little symbols in the left hand column:
  1.      dist_icon.png   -  when a Monthly Contest will be distributed.
  2.     due_icon.png   -  when a Monthly Contest is due.
  3.      awards_icon.png  - when the awards for that Monthly Contest will be held.
  • Please go to the BMC Elementary  tab for its information and schedule.

Calendar for 2019 - 2020 Academic Year

MC1
Instructor Topic Room
Selena Ding Beginners I - Exponentials in Biology I
PDF 		1015
Selena Ding Beginners II - Exponentials in Biology I
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Strange Distance Functions and Stranger Circles
PDF 		648
Ted Alper Intermediate II - De Bruijn, Dominoes, Decks, and Dilworth
PDF 		740
Joshua Zucker Advanced - Visualizing Quadratic Forms
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Selena Ding Beginners I - Exponentials in Biology II
PDF 		1015
Selena Ding Beginners II - Exponentials in Biology II
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Strange Distance Functions and Stranger Circles II
PDF 		648
Emiliano Gomez Intermediate II - Problems with Counting, Over and Again!
PDF, PDF 		740
Irene Lo Advanced - Graph Theory
PDF, PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Beginning Combinatorics and Factorials
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Beginning Combinatorics and Factorials
 1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Strange Distance Functions and Stranger Circles III
 648
Bernt Wahl Intermediate II - Linear and Non-linear the Geometry of Nature
 740
Nikhil Sahoo Advanced - Cardinal Arithmetic and the Axiom of Choice
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Beginning Combinatorics and Factorials II
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Beginning Combinatorics and Factorials II
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Smullyan's Revenge: The Smullyaning I
PDF 		C210
Roy Zhao Intermediate II - The Euclidean Algorithm and Prime Factorization I
PDF 		740
Charles Fougeron Advanced - A geometric approach to continued fractions
PDF, PDF 		736
MC2 MC1
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Beginning Combinatorics and Factorials III
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Beginning Combinatorics and Factorials III
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Smullyan's Revenge: The Smullyaning II
PDF, PDF 		C210
Roy Zhao Intermediate II - The Euclidean Algorithm and Prime Factorization II
PDF 		740
Espen Slettnes Advanced - The Probabilistic Method
PDF 		736
MC1
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility

Cancelled due to power outage

 1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility

Cancelled due to power outage

 1015
Jayadev Athreya Intermediate I - What can we do with a piece of graph paper?

Cancelled due to power outage

 C210
Igor Ganichev Intermediate II - Functional Equations

Cancelled due to power outage

 740
Daniel Grieser Advanced - IMO and Sequences

Cancelled due to power outage

 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility
 1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility
 1015
Jayadev Athreya Intermediate I - What Can We Do With a Piece of Graph Paper?
 C210
Igor Ganichev Intermediate II - Functional Equations II
PDF 		740
Yun Lu Advanced - Differential Privacy
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Squares Dancing
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Squares Dancing
PDF 		1015
Roy Zhao Intermediate I - Euclidean Algorithms I
PDF 		C210
Igor Ganichev Intermediate II - Functional Equations III
PDF 		740
Jacob Shapiro Advanced - Fractals
PDF 		736
MC3 MC2
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Fold-and-One Cut
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Fold-and-One Cut
 1015
Roy Zhao Intermediate I - Euclidean Algorithms II
PDF 		C210
Chris Kottke Intermediate II - Graphs and coloring problems
PDF 		740
Kolya Malkin Advanced - Flow-cut duality
 736
MC2
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Fold-and-One Cut II
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Fold-and-One Cut II
 1015
Roy Zhao Intermediate I - Euclidean Algorithms III
PDF 		C210
Daniel Grieser Intermediate II - Sequences
PDF 		740
Kolya Malkin Advanced - Flow-cut duality
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Euler's Magic Highway, Part I
PDF 		1015
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Euler's Magic Highway, Part I
PDF 		1015
Katrina Morgan Intermediate I - To Infinity and Beyond I
 C210
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate II - Strolling with Euler
PDF, PDF, PDF 		740
Igor Ganichev Advanced - Functional Equations
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Euler's Magic Highway, Part II
PDF 		1015
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Euler's Magic Highway, Part II
PDF 		1015
Katrina Morgan Intermediate I - To Infinity and Beyond II
 C210
Konstantin Kakaes Intermediate II - Einstein, Relativity, and the Relationship between Mathematics and the World
 740
Roy Zhao Advanced - Series
PDF 		736
MC4 MC3
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility Part II
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility Part II
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Journey to Dimension N+1
PDF 		C210
Pratima Karpe Intermediate II - Select Problems in Counting and Probability
PDF 		740
Konstantin Kakaes Advanced - Einstein, Relativity, and the Relationship between Mathematics and the World
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility Part III
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility Part III
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Journey to Dimension N+1 II
PDF 		C210
Pratima Karpe Intermediate II - Select Problems in Counting and Probability
PDF 		740
Olga Holtz Advanced - Generating Function
PDF 		736
MC3
Instructor Topic Room
Lisa Goldberg BMC-Upper Colloquium: Simpson's Paradox
PDF

Note the different day (Sunday, Dec 15), time 6:00-7:30pm, and place (GPB 100).

Sunday, December 15.

Material for everyone: you may want to read it before the colloquium. 

Steminism: an Interview with Lisa Goldberg

https://berkeleysciencereview.com/mathematics-lisa-goldberg/  

 

 GPB 100, 6:00-7:30pm
MC5 MC4
Instructor Topic Room
Selena Ding Beginners I - Probabilities in Genetics I
PDF 		1015
Selena Ding Beginners II - Probabilities in Genetics I
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Introduction to Probability: Heads & Tails I
PDF 		C230
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - Six truths and a lie
PDF 		740
Nikhil Sahoo Advanced - Knot Theory Potpourri
PDF 		736
MC4
Instructor Topic Room
Selena Ding Beginners I - Probabilities in Genetics II
PDF 		1015
Selena Ding Beginners II - Probabilities in Genetics II
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Introduction to Probability: Heads & Tails II
 C230
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Paula Verdugo Advanced - There is more than one infinity!
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Encrypted Arithmetic I
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Encrypted Arithmetic I
PDF 		1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Beginning Combinatorics and Pascal's Triangle I
 740
BMC Staff Intermediate II - AMC 10-12
 C230
BMC Staff Advanced - AMC 10-12
 C230
MC6 MC5
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Encrypted Arithmetic II
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Encrypted Arithmetic II
PDF 		1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Beginning Combinatorics and Pascal's Triangle II
 C230
Zsuzsanna Dancso Intermediate II - Graph Dualities, Cycles and Cuts I
PDF, PDF 		740
Espen Slettnes Advanced - Linear Algebra in Combinatorics
PDF 		736
MC5
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Preparation for BAMO
PDF, PDF, PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Preparation for BAMO
PDF, PDF, PDF 		1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Beginning Combinatorics and Pascal's Triangle III
 C230
Zsuzsanna Dancso Intermediate II - Graph Dualities, Cycles and Cuts II
PDF, PDF 		740
Stephen Morgan Advanced - Geometry on the walls
PDF, PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
BMC Staff All BMC-Upper Groups - Bay Area Math Olympiad
 C230
Instructor Topic Room
Bernt Wahl Beginners I - Fractals Everywhere
PDF, PDF 		1015
Bernt Wahl Beginners II - Fractals Everywhere
PDF, PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Generating functions I
PDF 		C230
Roy Zhao Intermediate II - Mass Points
PDF, PDF 		740
Chris Overton Advanced - Epidemiology: the math of disease outbreaks I
 736
MC7 MC6
Instructor Topic Room
Roy Zhao Beginners I - Session CANCELLED
 1015
Roy Zhao Beginners II - Session CANCELLED
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Session CANCELLED
 C230
Nikhil Sahoo Intermediate II - Session CANCELLED
 740
Chris Overton Advanced - Session CANCELLED
 736
MC6
Instructor Topic Room
Roy Zhao Beginners I - Expanding Fractions I
PDF 		Zoom
Roy Zhao Beginners II - Expanding Fractions I
PDF 		Zoom
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Ptolemy's Theorem
PDF 		Zoom
Nikhil Sahoo Intermediate II - Colorful Knots
PDF 		Zoom
Chris Overton Advanced - Epidemiology: the math of disease outbreaks II
PDF, PDF, PDF 		Zoom
Instructor Topic Room
Spring Break- No class
 None
Instructor Topic Room
Roy Zhao Beginners I - Expanding Fractions II
 Zoom
Roy Zhao Beginners II - Expanding Fractions II
 Zoom
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Ptolemy's Theorem II: Inversion in Earnest
 Zoom
Nikhil Sahoo Intermediate II - Alternating Knots
 Zoom
Bernt Wahl Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
MC8 MC7
Instructor Topic Room
Selena Ding Beginners I - Errors in Heuristics I
 Zoom
Selena Ding Beginners II - Errors in Heuristics I
 Zoom
Henri Picciotto Intermediate I - More graph paper explorations
 Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Pierre Simon Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
MC7
Instructor Topic Room
Selena Ding Beginners I - Errors in Heuristics II
 Zoom
Selena Ding Beginners II - Errors in Heuristics II
 Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Generating functions II
 Zoom
Mark Penney Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Pablo Ocal Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 Zoom
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 Zoom
Roy Zhao Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Melanie Matchett Wood Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
MC8
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 Zoom
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 Zoom
Roy Zhao Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Ted Alper Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
MC8
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 Zoom
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 Zoom
Ted Alper Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Richard Borcherds Advanced - TBA
 Zoom