The Berkeley Math Circle

Calendar

Welcome to the BMC Archives. This section of the site was created to archive the session handouts and Monthly Contests from the Circle since 1998. To navigate this page, simply select the desired year you wish to view under either Session Handouts or Monthly Contests. The info for that year will be displayed underneath your selection.

Session Handouts:

Monthly Contests:

Calendar for 2016 - 2017 Academic Year

Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Fusing Dots, Part I
PDF 		344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Fusing Dots, Part I

PDF

 344 Evans
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Counting Regions in the Plane, Part I

PDF

 340 Evans
Austin Shapiro Intermediate II - Benford's Law
PDF, PDF, PDF 		740 Evans
Laura Pierson Advanced - Generating Functions
PDF 		736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Fusing Dots, Part II

PDF

 344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Fusing Dots, Part II

PDF

 344 Evans
Chris Overton Intermediate II - "Lord of the Rings and Fields: infinitely many 'number' systems"
PDF 		740 Evans
Peter Selinger Advanced - Rational curves and Pythagorean triples
PDF 		736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Fusing Dots, Part III

PDF

 344 Evans
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Counting Regions in the Plane, Part III
PDF 		340 Evans
Chris Overton Intermediate II - "Lord of the Rings and Fields: infinitely many 'number' systems" II

PDF

 740 Evans
Richard Borcherds Advanced - Archimedean Solids
 736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Exotic Bases
 344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Place Value Challenges
PDF 		344 Evans
Bernt Wahl Intermediate I - Fractals Everywhere
 340 Evans
Petra Munih Intermediate II - Counting; beyond the basics I
PDF 		740 Evans
Sungjin Im Advanced - Theoretical Models, Algorithmic Ideas, and Applications to MapReduce and Hadoop?
736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Pascal's Triangle
 344 Evans
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Reconstructing Mona Lisa, Part I
PDF, PDF

YouTube

 344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Paper Cutting Tricks
PDF 		340 Evans
Petra Munih Intermediate II - Counting; beyond the basics II
 740 Evans
Alain Valette Advanced - Embedding graphs in Euclidean spaces
 736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Properties of Arithmetic
 344 Evans
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Reconstructing Mona Lisa, Part II

PDF, PDF, YouTube

 344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Paper Cutting Tricks Part II

PDF

 340 Evans
Petra Munih Intermediate II - Counting; beyond the basics III
 740 Evans
Tomer Kotek Advanced - Graph Colorings
 736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Three Strange Machines
PDF 		344 Evans
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Counting and Probability
 344 Evans
Tom Davis Intermediate I - Vector and Matrices
PDF 		340 Evans
Zandra Vinegar Intermediate II - Brain-Warping Probability Part I
 740 Evans
Ali Gurel Advanced - Invariance
736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Some Properties of the Number Seven
PDF 		344 Evans
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Counting and Probability Part II
 344 Evans
Tom Davis Intermediate I - Vector and Matrices Part II
 340 Evans
Zandra Vinegar Intermediate II - Brain-Warping Probability Part II
 740 Evans
Robert Kleinberg Advanced - Random Walks
736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Natalya St. Clair Beginners I - Triangles and Altitudes
 344 Evans
Natalya St. Clair Beginners II - Triangles and Altitudes
 344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Geometric Probability
PDF 		340 Evans
Joanna Ochremiak Nathanael Fijalkow Intermediate II - Determinacy: which games are not worth playing?
 740 Evans
Aaron Kleinman Advanced - How many shuffles does it take to mix up a deck?
 736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Natalya St. Clair Beginners I - Is Democracy Fair
 344 Evans
Natalya St. Clair Beginners II - Is Democracy Fair
 344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Geometric Probability Part II

PDF

 340 Evans
Joanna Ochremiak Nathanael Fijalkow Intermediate II - Games not worth Playing
 740 Evans
Matthew Anderson Advanced - NP Completeness
PDF 		736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Natalya St. Clair Beginners I - Triangles and Alitutdes Part II
PDF 		344 Evans
Natalya St. Clair Beginners II - Triangles and Alitutdes Part II

PDF

 344 Evans
Advanced - Solving algebraic equations modulo an integer
PDF 		736 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Anuj Dawar Uncountable, Uncomputable and Unpredictable
PDF 		736 Evans
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Popular Math Areas in Contests, Part I
PDF, PDF 		344 Evans
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Ruler and Compass Part I
PDF 		344 Evans
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - AMC 8 Recap
 340 Evans
Andrea Jedwab Intermediate II - Pick's Theorem
 740 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Popular Math Areas in Contests, Part II

Areas, MK

 344 Evans
Instructor Topic Room
Olga Holtz Colloquium Talk for BMC-Upper
 TBD
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility
PDF 		344
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility
PDF 		344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Strolling with Euler I
PDF 		340
Petra Munih Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Evan O'Dorney Advanced - Determinants and Odd and Even Permutations - Part I
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility - Part II
PDF 		344
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility -Part II
PDF 		344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Strolling with Euler II
PDF 		340
Petra Munih Intermediate II - TBA
 TBA
Evan O'Dorney Advanced - Determinants and Odd and Even Permutations - Part II
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Divisibility - Part III
PDF 		344
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Divisibility - Part III
PDF 		344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Strolling with Euler III
PDF 		340
Petra Munih Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Ciprian Demeter Advanced - Pigeon Hole Principle and beyond
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
AMC 10/12 Contest for Intermediate II and Advanced

No regular session

 TBA
Alex Zorn Beginners I - The coordinate plane -Part I
 344
Alex Zorn Beginners II - Coordinate Plane

See handout in later week

 344
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Rational and Irrational Numbers
 340
Instructor Topic Room
Alex Zorn Beginners I - 0214
 344
Alex Zorn Beginners II - 0214
 344
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Pulling Rabbits from Hats
PDF 		340
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate II - AMC 10/12 Contest Aftermath
 740
Nick Andersen Advanced - Olympiad Tricks - Part I

Same handout as part II

 736
Instructor Topic Room
Alex Zorn Beginners I - Coordinate Plane - Final
PDF 		344
Alex Zorn Beginners II - Coordinate Plane - Final
PDF 		344
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - BAMO Prep

No handouts

 340
Shay Moran Intermediate II - Puzzles
PDF 		740
Nick Andersen Advanced - Olympiad Tricks - Part II
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
BAMO 8/12

No regular sessions

 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
AIME I for Qualifiers
 732
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Counting I
PDF 		344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Counting I
PDF 		344
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Combinatorics - Continued

No handouts

 340
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate II - BAMO Aftermath
 740
Shay Moran Advanced - Puzzles
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Counting II
PDF 		344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Counting II
PDF 		344
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Combinatorics - Continued
 340
Petra Munih Intermediate II - TBA
 TBA
Pratima Karpe Advanced - More Results on SET Math
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Counting III
PDF 		344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Counting III
PDF 		344
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Combinatorics - Continued

No handouts

 340
Petra Munih Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Jesse Thorner Advanced - Computing Sums and Average Number of Divisors
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Spring Break
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Polyominoes, Symmetry, and Galaxy Puzzles
 344
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - 0404
 344
Tatiana Shubin Intermediate I - Parity and Invariants - Part I
PDF 		340
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate II - Conway's Checkers

No handouts.

Please refer to the Decade of Berkeley Math Circle books for material:

  • in volume I: "Stomp and Other Games with Invariants" by Sam Vandervelde (Head of Proof School)
  • in volume II: "Monovariants. Part I and II" by Gabriel Carroll (BMC alumnus, Assistant Professor of Economic, Stanford)
 740
Paul Zeitz Advanced - Polya Counting I

No handouts

 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Polyominoes, Symmetry, and Galaxy Puzzles
 344
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Polyominoes, Symmetry, and Galaxy Puzzles
 344
Tatiana Shubin Intermediate I - Parity and Invariants
PDF 		340
Serkan Hosten Intermediate II - Pigeon Hole Principle
PDF 		740
Paul Zeitz Advanced - Polya Counting II

No handouts

 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Beg I 04-18
 344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Beg II 04-18
 344
Petra Munih Intermediate I - Int I 04-18
 340
Quan Lam Intermediate II - Int II 0418
 740
Paul Zeitz Advanced - ad 0418
 736
Instructor Topic Room
USAMO/USAJMO for Qualifiers
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
USAMO/USAJMO for Qualifiers
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Beg I 0425
 344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Beg II 0425
 344
Petra Munih Intermediate I - Int I 0425
 340
Quan Lam Intermediate II - Int II 0425
 740
Sanjam Garg Advanced - Ad 0425
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Beg I 0502
 344
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Beg II 0502
 344
Petra Munih Intermediate I - Int I 0502
 340
Quan Lam Intermediate II - Int II 0502
 740
Austin Shapiro Advanced - Ad 0502
 736
Instructor Topic Room
James Sethian Colloquium Talk for BMC-Upper
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Roy Zhao Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Espen Slettnes Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
Instructor Topic Room
Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - TBA
 Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate II - TBA
 Zoom
Instructor Topic Room
Advanced - TBA
 Zoom
Instructor Topic Room
Intermediate I - TBA
 Zoom
Instructor Topic Room
Bernt Wahl Intermediate II - TBA
 Online
Instructor Topic Room
Sarah Firestone Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Beginners II - TBA
 In person