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 2018 - 2019 Academic Year

Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Math Olympiad Problems - I
 1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Math Olympiad Problems - I
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Contest Problems I
 597
Tom Davis Intermediate II - Cryptography I
 740
Sean Howe Advanced - Root Loops
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Math Olympiad Problems - II
 1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Math Olympiad Problems - II
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Contest Problems II
 597
Tom Davis Intermediate II - Cryptography - II
 740
Espen Slettnes Advanced - Constructing Musical Scales
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Contest Problems
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Contest Problems
 1015
Mihai Munteanu Intermediate I - Divisibility Problems-I
 597
Ali Gurel Intermediate II - Coloring Problems
 740
Khrystyna Serhiyenko Advanced - Frieze Patterns
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Properties of the Number 7
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Counting: Partitions
PDF 		1015
Mihai Munteanu Intermediate I - Divisibility Problems-II
 597
Andrea Jedwab Intermediate II - Groups and Symmetry
 740
Sergei Tabachnikov Advanced - Proofs not from The Book
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Bernt Wahl Beginners I - Fractal Geometry
 1015
Bernt Wahl Beginners II - Fractal Geometry
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Applied Math- Data & Statistics I
 597
Andrea Jedwab Intermediate II - Groups and Symmetry
 740
Sergei Tabachnikov Advanced - Mathematical Billiards
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Archimedes' Tangram I
PDF, PDF 		1015
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Archimedes' Tangram I
PDF, PDF 		1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Applied Math- Data & Statistics II
 597
Iryna Kashuba Intermediate II - Platonic Solids
PDF 		740
Richard Borcherds Advanced - Primes and Dirichlet Series
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Zvezda Stankova Beginners I - Archimedes' Tangram II
PDF, PDF, PDF 		1015
Zvezda Stankova Beginners II - Archimedes' Tangram II
PDF, PDF, PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - Mathemagical Scissors - Part I: Squaring Problems
PDF 		597
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - Group Theory I
 740
Eric Allender Advanced - Impossibility Proofs in Computer Science (and Why They Are Useful)
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Data and Statistics I
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Data and Statistics I
 1015
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - Mathemagical Scissors - Part II: Squaring Problems
PDF, PDF 		597
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - Group Theory II
 740
Eric Price Advanced - Sublinear Algorithms
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Data and Statistics II
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Data and Statistics II
 1015
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - Mathemagical Scissors - Part III
 597
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - Group Theory III: Halloween Edition
 740
Matyas Sustik Advanced - Combinatorics I
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Data and Statistics III
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Data and Statistics III
 1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Math Auction
 597
Ali Gurel Intermediate II - Games
 740
Matyas Sustik Advanced - Combinatorics II
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners I - Data and Statistics IV
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Beginners II - Data and Statistics IV
 1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Math Auction II
 597
Eric Hallman Intermediate II - Brussels Sprouts, Soccer Balls, and Euler's Formula
 740
Chris Overton Advanced - The Wave Equation
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Problems from Smullyan I
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Problems from Smullyan I
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Data and Statistics
 597
Manuel Sabin Intermediate II - Complexity Theory I
 740
Chris Overton Advanced - The Wave Equation
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Problems from Smullyan II
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Problems from Smullyan II
 1015
Ellen Kulinsky Intermediate I - Cryptarithms and Other Puzzles
 597
Manuel Sabin Intermediate II - Complexity Theory II
 740
Dustin Mixon Advanced - The Mathematics of Gerrymandering
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Joshua Zucker BMC-Upper Colloquium Talk
 GPB 100
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Board Tiling and Chocolate Sharing, with a hint of the Fibonacci Sequence, Part I
PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Board Tiling and Chocolate Sharing, with a hint of the Fibonacci Sequence, Part I
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Polygons, Polyhedra, and Polytopes I
PDF 		597
Pratima Karpe Intermediate II - Competition Math
 740
Vera Serganova Advanced - Hyperbolic geometry and SL(2)
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Board Tiling and Chocolate Sharing, with a hint of the Fibonacci Sequence, Part II
PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Board Tiling and Chocolate Sharing, with a hint of the Fibonacci Sequence, Part II
PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Polygons, Polyhedra, and Polytopes II
PDF 		597
Pratima Karpe Intermediate II - Symmetric Polynomials
PDF 		740
Alexander Paulin Advanced - The p-Adic Numbers
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Board Tiling and Chocolate Sharing, with a hint of the Fibonacci Sequence, Part III
PDF, PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Board Tiling and Chocolate Sharing, with a hint of the Fibonacci Sequence, Part III
PDF, PDF 		1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Polygons, Polyhedra, and Polytopes III
 597
Adam Smith Intermediate II - "Hands on" Cryptography
 740
Vera Serganova Advanced - Hyperbolic plane and sl(2, Z), II
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - The Stomp Game
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - The Stomp Game
 1015
Mihai Munteanu Intermediate I - Pigeon-hole Principle
 597
Intermediate II - Advanced - AMC 10/12 for Intermediate II and Advanced

We will administer AMC10/12 B during BMC time.

No regular sessions for Intermediate II and Advanced.

 736 & 740
Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - BAMO contest preparation
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - BAMO contest preparation
 1015
Mihai Munteanu Intermediate I - Pigeon-hole Principle II
 597
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate II - Valentine's Day Special: Chocolate Sharing with Fibonacci.
 740
Lisa Goldberg Advanced - Do the Golden State Warriors Have Hot Hands?
PDF, PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
BAMO

Bay Area Math Olympiad Competition

 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
No Sessions

No sessions due to previous day of BAMO

 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Mathemagical Scissors I
PDF, PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Mathemagical Scissors I
PDF, PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Probability Using Geometry
 597
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate II - Fold and Cut
 740
Joshua Zucker Advanced - TBA
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Mathemagical Scissors II
PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Mathemagical Scissors II
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Probability Using Geometry
 597
Paul Zeitz Intermediate II - Probability I
 740
Maia Averett Advanced - Knotty Mathematics II
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Harry Main-Luu Beginners I - Mathemagical Scissors III
PDF 		1015
Harry Main-Luu Beginners II - Mathemagical Scissors III
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Experiments with Paper and Scissors
 597
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate II - King Chickens (Graph Theory)
 740
Piotr Achinger Advanced - π
 736
Instructor Topic Room
Spring Break

No Sessions

 TBA
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Permutations, Combinations, and Fancier Counting: Part I
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Permutations, Combinations, and Fancier Counting: Part I
PDF 		1015
Kristin DeVleming Intermediate I - Shapes, Symmetries, Twists, and Tangles
PDF 		597
Aaron Kleinman Intermediate II - Stable Marriage Algorithm
 740
Masha Vlasenko Advanced - p-adic continuity
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Permutations, Combinations, and Fancier Counting: Part II
PDF 		1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Permutations, Combinations, and Fancier Counting: Part II
PDF 		1015
Kristin DeVleming Intermediate I - A Topological Theme Park
PDF 		597
Paul Zeitz Intermediate II - Probability II
 740
Dmitry Vaintrob Advanced - The four-squares theorem using quaternions
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Kelli Talaska Beginners I - Permutations, Combinations, and Fancier Counting: Part III
 1015
Kelli Talaska Beginners II - Permutations, Combinations, and Fancier Counting: Part III
 1015
Harry Main-Luu Intermediate I - Tetris Party - Will We Win?
 597
Paul Zeitz Intermediate II - Probability III
 740
Igor Ganichev Advanced - Problem Structures
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Quan Lam Beginners I - Numbers
 1015
Quan Lam Beginners II - Numbers
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - One Fold and Cut
 597
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - Determinants and path counting
PDF 		740
Igor Ganichev Advanced - Coloring Problems
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Quan Lam Beginners I - Numbers
 1015
Quan Lam Beginners II - Numbers
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - King Chicken I
PDF 		597
Kelli Talaska Intermediate II - Determinants and path counting
 740
Espen Slettnes Advanced - Definite Integration with Complex Analysis
PDF 		736
Instructor Topic Room
Quan Lam Beginners I - Numbers
 1015
Quan Lam Beginners II - Numbers
 1015
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - King Chicken II
 597
Sofya Raskhodnikova Intermediate II - Are All Infinite the Same?
 740
Olga Holtz Advanced - TBA
 736