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 2019 - 2020 Academic Year

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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Intermediate II - AMC 10-12
 C230
Advanced - AMC 10-12
 C230
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
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
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
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
Instructor Topic Room
Roy Zhao Beginners I - Expanding Fractions I
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Roy Zhao Beginners II - Expanding Fractions I
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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
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Instructor Topic Room
Spring Break- No class
 None
Instructor Topic Room
Roy Zhao Beginners I - Expanding Fractions II
PDF 		Zoom
Roy Zhao Beginners II - Expanding Fractions II
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Zvezda Stankova Intermediate I - Ptolemy's Theorem II: Inversion in Earnest
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Nikhil Sahoo Intermediate II - Alternating Knots
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Bernt Wahl Advanced - TBA
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Selena Ding Beginners I - Errors in Heuristics
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Selena Ding Beginners II - Errors in Heuristics
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Henri Picciotto Intermediate I - More graph paper explorations
PDF 		Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate II - Generating functions
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Pierre Simon Advanced - Probability Riddles
PDF 		Zoom
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Selena Ding Beginners I - Statistics and Disease transmission
PDF 		Zoom
Selena Ding Beginners II - Statistics and Disease transmission
PDF 		Zoom
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Intermediate I - Generating functions II
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Mark Penney Intermediate II - Graph theory and infectious diseases
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Pablo Ocal Advanced - How (not) to hang pictures on walls
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Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Mathematical Strategy Games I
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Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Mathematical Strategy Games I
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Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Snowflakes and infinite sums
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Roy Zhao Intermediate II - Series and the Riemann Zeta Function I
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Melanie Matchett Wood Advanced - All kinds of metrics
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Instructor Topic Room
Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Mathematical Strategy Games II
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Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Mathematical Strategy Games II
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Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - More fractals and infinite sums
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Roy Zhao Intermediate II - Series and the Riemann Zeta Function II
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Harry Main-Luu Advanced - From Darts to Balls: A Game to Always Win
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Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners I - Problems from Moscow Math Circle
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Elysee Wilson-Egolf Beginners II - Problems from Moscow Math Circle
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Kelli Talaska Intermediate I - Paper snowflakes and other fun with scissors
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Intermediate II - Rationals, irrationals, and continued fractions
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Richard Borcherds Advanced - Continued fractions
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