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 2017 - 2018 Academic Year

Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Problems from Smullyan - I
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Beg II 0905
 1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Strange Distance Functions and Stranger Circles
PDF 		732
Olga Maleva Intermediate II - Number Bases
PDF, PDF

Solutions included

 740
David Gomprecht Advanced - Areas of Equilateral Triangles: an AIME Odyssey
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Problems from Smullyan - II
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Problems from Smullyan - II
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Strange Distance Functions and Stranger Circles - II
PDF 		732
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate II - Extra Constructions in Olympiad -Style Plane Geometry Problems, I

This series of sessions uses copyrighted Bulgarian national contest problems.

No handouts.

 740
Alina Ene Advanced - Multiplicative Weights Update Method and Solving IMO-Style Combinatorics Problem
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Problems from Smullyan - III
PDF 		Kroeber 155
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Problems from Smullyan - III
PDF 		Kroeber 155
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Strange Distance Functions and Stranger Circles - III

No handouts

 Evans 597
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate II - Extra Constructions in Olympiad -Style Plane Geometry Problems, II
 740
Olga Holtz Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Intro to Matrices
PDF

See handout in end of series

 TBA
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Intro to Matrices - I
PDF 		TBA
Annie Raymond Intermediate I - Combinatorial Optimization - I
 TBA
Mihai Munteanu Intermediate II - Power of the Point

No handout

 740
Bruno Benedetti Advanced - Polytopes and Their Graphs
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Matrices - Continued

See final for handout

 TBA
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Matrices - Continued

See final for handout

 TBA
Annie Raymond Intermediate I - Combinatorial Optimization - II
 TBA
Tom Davis Intermediate II - Iteration - I

No handouts.

 740
Paata Ivanisvili Advanced - Tentative: Convexity and Applications to Inequalities
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Matrices - Continued
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Matrices - Continued
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Pirates Puzzles

No handout

 TBA
Tom Davis Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Carsten Schuett Advanced - Tentative: Convex Geometry
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Intro to Matrices - final

See Beginners II for handout

 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Intro to Matrices - final
PDF

Handout for entire series

 Evans 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Samir Khuller Intermediate II - Counting Triangles and Corollaries
 740
Cynthia Vinzant Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Tentative: Some AMC 8 are for 5-6th Graders! - Part I
 TBA
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Tentative: AMC8 prep - part I
 TBA
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Into to Matrices - I

See final for handout

 597
Walaa Moursi Intermediate II - Math Kangaroo - Part I
 740
Ramon van Handel Advanced - Isoperimetry: Why Are Soap Bubbles Round?
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Tentative: Some AMC 8 are for 5-6th Graders! - Part II
 TBA
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Tentative: AMC8 prep - part II
 TBA
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Matrices - final
PDF 		TBA
Walaa Moursi Intermediate II - Math Kangaroo - Part II
 740
Eran Nevo Advanced - Radon and Helly Theorems in Convex Geometry and Topological Versions
 736
Instructor Topic Room
AMC 8 Contest

No regular sessions for Intermediate I and Intermediate II

 TBA
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Pierre Simon Advanced - Intro to Model Logic
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Matrices
PDF 		TBA
Austin Shapiro Intermediate II - Euclidean Algorithm, Part I
 740
Tomasz Tkocz Advanced - Math Olympiads, Functional Equations and/or Elementary Planar Geometry Problems
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Proofs in Problem Solving through Bulgarian Math Contest - I

No handout

 597
Austin Shapiro Intermediate II - Euclidean Algorithm, Part I
 740
Serkan Hosten Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Proofs in Problem Solving through Bulgarian Math Contest - II
 597
Eric Hallman Intermediate II - AMC-8 Aftermath
 740
Elwyn Berlekamp Advanced - The Game of Hackenbush
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ken Ribet Colloquium Talk for BMC-Upper

On"Fermat's Last Theorem"

Location: Genetics and Plant Biology, Room 100.

Time: 6-8pm

 

 GPBB100
Instructor Topic Room
Swati Gupta Beginners I - Tentative: Growth and Decay of Functions
 TBA
Swati Gupta Beginners II - Tentative: Growth and Decay of Functions
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Ken-Ken Challenges

No handouts.

 597
Igor Ganichev Intermediate II - TBA
 TBA
Evan O'Dorney Advanced - Recursive Sequences - Part 1
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Freedom of the Clones - Part I

You can watch some videos about the topic on Numberphile channel on Youtube

  • Conway Checkers Main: https://youtu.be/FtNWzlfEQgY  
  • Conway Checkers Proof: for those who are adventurous and have some background in quadratic equations and geometric series (definitely, Int II and Advanced, but possibly younger students too): https://youtu.be/Or0uWM9bT5w

The same channel also has videos about Freedom of the Clones.

 1015
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Freedom of the Clones - Part I

You can find videos related to this session on the Youtube Channel: Numberphile.

 1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Igor Ganichev Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Evan O'Dorney Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - In Which Math Area is This Problem? - Part III
 TBA
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - In Which Math Area is This Problem? - Part III
 TBA
Alexander Paulin Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Igor Ganichev Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Austin Shapiro Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Properties of Number 7
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Happy Doodles

No Handouts

 1015
Alexander Paulin Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - BAMO Prep
 740
Austin Shapiro Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - BAMO Prep
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - BAMO Prep
 TBA
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - BAMO and the Bigger Picture
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - BAMO Prep
 740
Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Bay Area Math Olympiad

No regular sessions

 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - BAMO Aftermath
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - BAMO Aftermath
 TBA
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - This Time Last Week: What Happened at the BAMO?
 TBA
Maia Averett Intermediate II - Mathematical Cut-and-Paste
PDF

Introduction to Topological Surfaces

 740
Richard Borcherds Advanced - Cantor Ordinals
PDF

Arithmetic with Numbers Larger than Infinity

 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - A Taste of Asian Math Olympiad - Intro to Number Theory
PDF

Olympiad problems using arguments of modulo n.

Baby Diophantine Equations.

 597
Ali Gurel Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Eric Hallman Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Ali Gurel Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Nick Davidson Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Spring Break

No regular sessions

 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Taxicab Geometry
PDF

Introduction to Taxicab Geometry

Notion of distance, circles, perpendicular bisector.

 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Vera Serganova Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Paul Zeitz Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Taxicab Geometry - II

City Zoning and House Hunting Strategies

Use previous handout.

 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Sara Tukachinsky Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Paul Zeitz Advanced - TBA
 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Tentative: Intro to Plane Geometry - III
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Sara Tukachinsky Intermediate II - TBA
 740
Paul Zeitz Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Quan Lam Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Chris Overton Intermediate II - Neural Networks, Part I
 740
Pratima Karpe Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - TBA
 TBA
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - TBA
 TBA
Quan Lam Intermediate I - TBA
 TBA
Chris Overton Intermediate II - Neural Networks, Part II
 740
Pratima Karpe Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Laura Pierson BMC Upper Colloquium Talk

Room: Genetics and Plant Biology 100

Time: 6-7:30pm

 GPBB100