Circle Archives
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Date |
Instructor University or Affiliation |
Topic |
Room Number |
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Sep. 8 |
Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College |
Before and Beyond IMO? (Joint) Read "Session 4. Number Theory I" from the BMC book. |
Evans 740 |
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Sep. 15 |
Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College |
Introduction to Number Theory (Beginner) For more, read "Session 4. Number Theory I" from the BMC book. |
Evans 740 |
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Ian Le Northwestern University |
Equilateral Triangles, Fermat, Napoleon, Miquel and Simson (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Sep. 22 |
Ivan Matic UC Berkeley |
Introduction to Geometry (Beginner) Read "Session 11. Favorite problems from the BMC, Circle Geometry" from the BMC book. |
Evans 740 |
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Ted Courant Bentley School |
Geometric Transformations with an Introduction to Techniques from Projective Geometry, Part I(Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Sep. 29 |
Linda Green Mills College |
Euler Number of Spheres (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Ted Courant Bentley School |
Geometric Transformations with an Introduction to Techniques from Projective Geometry, Part II(Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Oct. 6 |
Linda Green Mills College |
Tic-Tac-Toe on a Torus and other Diversions in Topology (Beginner) |
Evans 60 |
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Evan O'Dorney BMC Student, IMO Participant |
Olympiad Problems for the Diehard (Advanced) |
Evans 75 |
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Oct. 13 |
Joshua Zucker MSRI, BAMO director |
Coins in Twoland (Beginner) |
Evans 60 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College |
Grinding out the Bulgarian Olympiad Problems: the Beauty and the Background (advanced) |
Evans 75 |
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Oct. 20 |
Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco, SFMC Director |
Graph Theory for Beginners (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Ivan Matic UC Berkeley |
Complex Generating Functions (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Oct. 27 |
Quan Lam Office of the UC President |
AMC 8 Preparation(Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco, SFMC Director |
Graph Theory and Ramsey Theory, Part II(Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Nov. 3 |
Quan Lam Office of UC President |
AMC 8 Preparation (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco, SFMC Director |
Van der Waerden's Theorem (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Nov. 10 |
Vera Serganova UC Berkeley |
Problems (Beginner) Read "Session 5. A Few Words about Proofs, Part I" from the BMC book. |
Evans 740 |
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David Auckly MSRI |
Solving Higher Degree Polynomial Equations(Advanced) Read "Session 9. Complex Numbers" from the BMC book. |
Evans 736 |
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Nov. 17 |
BMC Staff |
AMC 8 Competition for Grades 8 and Below |
Evans 740 |
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Dan Asimov UC Berkeley |
The Wonderful Complex Numbers (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Nov. 24 |
Alexander Givental UC Berkeley |
Geometry of Surfaces (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Dimitri Zvonkine MSRI |
Evans 736 |
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Dec. 1 |
Alexander Givental UC Berkeley |
Mathematics of Musical Chords(Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Maia Averett Mills College |
Knot Theory (Advanced) (article coming soon in BMC book volume 2) |
Evans 736 |
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Dec. 8 |
Quan Lam Office of the UC President |
Chinese Math Competition Problems (Joint)/ New Year's Party |
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Dec. 15 |
Michael Pejic UC Berkeley |
Again and Again: Iteration (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Mikael Passare University of Stockholm |
Evans 736 |
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Dec. 22 |
Winter and New Year Break |
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Dec. 29 |
Winter and New Year's Break |
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Jan. 5 |
Alon Amit |
Problems about Squares (Beginner) |
Evans 939 |
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Tom Rike Oakland High School |
Heptadecagon (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Jan. 12 |
Vera Vertesi MSRI |
Mathematical Games (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Olga Holtz UC Berkeley |
Markov Chains (Advanced) Hold mouse over the link for more information. |
Evans 736 |
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Jan.14 |
Who Wants to Be a Mathematician? at the Moscone Center in San Francisco |
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Jan.16 |
SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers at the Moscone Center in San Francisco |
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Jan. 19 |
Tatiana Shubin San Jose State University |
Introduction to Group Theory I (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Maksim Maydanskiy Stanford University |
What Is a Tropical Line? (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Jan. 26 |
Valentin Tonita UC Berkeley |
More About Proofs (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Robin Hartshorne UC Berkeley |
History of Imaginary Numbers (Advanced) (a good textbook by V. Katz related to the lecture: "The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam") |
Evans 736 |
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Feb. 2 |
Michael Pejic UC Berkeley |
AMC Preparation (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Paul Melvin Bryn Mawr College |
Linking (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Feb. 9 |
Ivan Matic UC Berkeley |
BAMO Preparation (Beginner) |
Evans 939 |
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BMC Staff |
AMC 10 Competition/ |
Evans 740/736 |
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Feb. 16 |
Andrew Dudzik UC Berkeley |
BAMO Preparation (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Evan O'Dorney BMC Student, IMO Participant |
The Dynamics of Continued Fractions (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Feb. 23 |
BAMO Staff |
BAMO Competition (no regular session) |
Evans 1015 and 740 |
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Feb. 28 |
BAMO 2008 Grading |
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Mar. 2 |
Joshua Zucker MSRI, BAMO Director |
BAMO Aftermath (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Dimitri Zvonkine MSRI |
Mountain climbing with your enemy: several problems with a rope and a couple of nails(Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Mar. 7 |
BAMO Awards at MSRI |
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Mar. 9 |
Matt Beck San Francisco State |
Graph Coloring (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Ivan Matic UC Berkeley |
AIME Preparation (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Mar. 16 |
Yael Degany UC Berkeley |
Equivalent or Not? (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Cliff Stoll |
Johnson Solids (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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BMC Staff |
AIME Competition for Qualifiers |
TBA |
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Mar. 23 |
Spring Break |
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Mar. 30 |
Tom Rike Oakland High School |
Evans 740 |
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Vera Serganova UC Berkeley |
On p-adic Numbers (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Apr. 6 |
Tom Davis Silicon Graphics (Co-Founder), SJMC Coordinator |
The Mathematics of Kenken (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Igor Ganichev UC Berkeley |
USAMO Preparation solutions (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Apr. 13 |
Tatiana Shubin San Jose State University |
Introduction to Group Theory II (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Tom Davis Silicon Graphics (Co-Founder), SJMC Coordinator |
Iterated Functions (advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Apr. 20 |
Brandy Wiegers MSRI, OMC Director |
Beautiful mathematics in nature (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Lenhard Ng Duke University |
The Topology of Surfaces (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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Apr. 27 |
Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College |
Medians surrender at the Olympics (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Claudiu Raicu UC Berkeley |
Irreducibility of Polynomials over Z (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
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BMC Staff |
USAMO Competition for Qualifiers |
TBA |
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May 2 |
End of the Year Party |
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May 4 |
Alon Amit |
Probability Paradoxes (Beginner) |
Evans 740 |
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Michael Pejic UC Berkeley |
Dynamical Systems (Advanced) |
Evans 736 |
BMC Elementary
For handouts from the Fall 2009 lessons, please click on following links.
For handouts from the Spring 2010 lessons, please click on following links.
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