Handouts 2012-2013 (Archives)

Date

Instructor

University or Affiliation

Topic

Room Number

Sep. 4

MC1

Linda Green

(Dominican/Marin MC)

Mathematical Games I (Beginner)

330 Evans

Tom Davis

(San Jose Math Circle

Pick's Theorem (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Geometric Re-constructions (Advanced)

736 Evans

Sep. 11

Linda Green

(Dominican/Marin MC)

Mathematical Games II (Beginner)

330 Evans

Tom Davis

(San Jose Math Circle)

Huge Numbers (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Claudio Procesi

(Universita degli Studi di Roma)

Intro to Algebraic Geometry (Advanced)

736 Evans

Sep. 18

Linda Green

(Dominican/Marin MC)

Mathematical Games III (Beginner)

330 Evans

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Geometric Re-constructions I (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Gregg Musiker

(U. of Minnesota/MSRI)

The Good Will Hunting Problem and Related Combinatorics (Advanced)

736 Evans

Sep. 25

Linda Green

(Dominican/Marin MC)

Mathematical Games IV (Beginner)

330 Evans

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Geometric Reconstructions II (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Anna Felikson

(Jacobs University/Bremen/MSRI)

Spherical Geometry (Advanced)

736 Evans

Oct. 2

MC2

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

Toplogy I (Beginner)

330 Evans

Maia Averett

(Mills)

Topology I (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Olga Holtz

(UCB)

Spherical Geometry (Advanced)

736 Evans

Oct. 9

MC1

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

Topology II (Beginner)

330 Evans

Maia Averett

(Mills)

Topology II (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Lilit Martirosyan

(UCB)

Examples of Lie Algebras, Lie Groups, and Their Correspondence (Advanced)

736 Evans

Oct. 16

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

Toplogy III (Beginner)

330 Evans

Cliff Stoll

(Tehiyah)

Klein Bottles (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Alexander Shapiro

(UCB)

Applications of Plane Geometry(Advanced)

736 Evans

Oct. 23

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Freedom for the Clones I (Beginner)

330 Evans

Miklos Racz

(UCB)

Probability and Games (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Evan Chen

(BMC)

Barycentric Coordinates (Advanced)

736 Evans

Oct. 30

MC3

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Freedom for the Clones II (Beginner)

330 Evans

Bernt Wahl

(UCB)

Fractal Geometry (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Ian Le

(Northwestern)

Pell's Equation (Advanced)

736 Evans

Nov. 6

MC2

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Freedom for the Clones III (Beginner)

330 Evans

Alon Amit

(Facebook/Origami Logic)

Big, Large, and Huge Numbers (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Karin Baur

(University of Graz, Austria/MSRI)

Triangulations and Frieze Patterns(Advanced)

736 Evans

Nov. 13

Joshua Zucker

(EPGY)

Number Theory I (Beginner)

330 Evans

BMC Staff

AMC 8 (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Kaisa Taipale

(St. Olaf College/MSRI)

Permutations and Pipe Dreams(Advanced)

736 Evans

Nov. 20

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

Plane Geometry (Beginner)

330 Evans

Kaisa Taipale

(St. Olaf College/MSRI)

Geometry and Geodesics (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

Continued Fractions and Geometry I (Advanced)

736 Evans

Nov. 27

Joshua Zucker

(EPGY)

Number Theory II (Beginner)

330 Evans

Brandy Wiegers

(SFSU)

Using Mathematics to solve the DBD Oil Spill (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

Continued Fractions and Geometry II (Advanced)

736 Evans

Dec. 4

MC4

Joshua Zucker

(EPGY)

Number Theory III (Beginner)

330 Evans

Ted Alper

(EPGY)

Computer Programming in the 18th Century (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Elwyn Berlekamp

(UCB)

The Game of Hackenbush (Advanced)

736 Evans

Dec. 11

MC3

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

Last session of the Berkeley Math Circle for Fall 2012 
Holiday Party at Lawrence Hall of Science 
This is a 1-hour joint session from 6-7pm in Auditorium of Lawrence Hall of Science for BMC-Beginners/Intermediate/Advanced students. Parents are also welcome in the audience.

All BMC-elementary students will have a session on room 165/175 of Lawrence Hall of Science from 6-7pm.

We will be handing out awards for Monthly Contest 3 and AMC 8 from 7 PM to 7:30 PM. 
Students are welcome to explore the exhibits at Lawrence Hall of Science from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM. 
There will be no food during this event.

Dec. 18

Winter and New Year Break

Dec. 25

Winter and New Year's Break

Jan. 1

Winter and New Year's Break

Jan. 8

MC5

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

"Finding Fibonacci" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Linda Green

(Dominican/Marin MC)

"Curvature, Angle Defect, and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem I" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Ravi Vakil

(Stanford)

"Three Delphic Impossibilities: Why You Can't Trisect an Angle, Double the Cube, or Square the Circle" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Jan. 15

MC4

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

"Finding Fibonacci II" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Linda Green

(Dominican/Marin MC)

"Curvature, Angle Defect, and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem II" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Evan O'Dorney

(Harvard)

"Putnam Aftermath I" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Jan. 22

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

"Permutations, Combinations, and Counting I" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Alex Zorn

(UCB)

"Colored Hats and Logic Puzzles"(Intermediate)

740 Evans

Evan O'Dorney

(Harvard)

"Putnam Aftermath II" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Jan. 29

Roseanna Pealatere

(Mills)

"Permutations, Combinations, and Counting II" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Ted Alper

(EPGY)

AMC 10 Prep (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Evan Chen

(BMC)

AMC 12 Prep (Advanced)

736 Evans

Feb. 5

MC6

Alon Amit

(Facebook/Origami Logic)

"Problems about knowledge about knowledge" (Beginner)

330 Evans

BMC Staff

AMC 10/12 Contest (Intermediate/Advanced)

736 and 740 Evans

Feb. 12

MC5

Alon Amit

(Facebook/Origami Logic)

"Problems about Squares" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Quan Lam

(Office of UC President)

"Countability" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Chris Overton

Surprises of High Dimensionality(Advanced)

736 Evans

Feb. 19

Joshua Zucker

(EPGY)

BAMO Prep (Beginner)

330 Evans

Miklos Racz

(UCB)

BAMO Prep (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Maksim Maydanskiy

(Stanford)

BAMO Prep (Advanced)

736 Evans

Feb. 26

Staff

BAMO 8/12 Contest

740, 1015

Mar. 5

Joshua Zucker

(EPGY)

BAMO Aftermath (Beginner)

330 Evans

Miklos Racz

(UCB)

BAMO Aftermath (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

BAMO Aftermath and AIME Prep(Advanced)

736 Evans

Mar. 12

MC7

Zvezdelina Stankova

(Mills/UCB)

"Plane geometry" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Frank Sottile

(TAMU/MSRI)

"Hyperbolic Soccerballs" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Dimitar Grantcharov

(U. of Texas at Arlington)

"Power of a Point" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Mar. 14
(Thurs.)

Staff

AIME I for qualifiers

740

Mar. 19

Elena Fuchs

(UCB)

"Number Theory: primes, proofs, and more" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Alexander Shapiro

(UCB)

"Probability proofs" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Lilit Martirosyan

(UCB)

"Fields of numbers and Greek Problems" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Mar. 26

Spring Break

Apr. 2

Elena Fuchs

(UCB)

"Primes and Proofs, part II" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Piotr Achinger

(UC Berkeley)

"Center of Mass and Moment of Inertia in Plane Geometry" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Vera Serganova

(UCB)

"Groups in number theory and geometry"(Advanced)

736 Evans

Apr. 9

MC8

Elena Fuchs

(UCB)

"Primes and Proofs, part III" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Tatiana Shubin

(SJSU)

"Splitting and Sharing" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Maksim Maydanskiy

(Stanford)

"How to add a square to a circle - the Minkowski sum and its properties"(Advanced)

736 Evans

Apr. 16

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

"Math Magic for Muggles I" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Ted Courant

(Bentley)

"Curious Number Systems" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Frank Sottile

(TAMU/MSRI)

"The Shape of Space" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Apr. 23 MC7

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

"Math Magic for Muggles II" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Ted Courant

(Bentley)

Curvature, Angle Defect and the Gauss-Bonnet (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Elina Robeva

(UCB)

"Combinatorics and Games" (Advanced)

736 Evans

April 30

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

"Math Magic for Muggles III" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Quan Lam

(Office of UC President)

"Math Team Competition" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Alex Zorn

(UCB)

"Fun With Infinity" (Advanced)

736 Evans

Apr. 30 - May. 1

Staff

USAMO/USAJMO for qualifiers

TBA

May 7

Paul Zeitz

(USF)

"Math Magic for Muggles IV" (Beginner)

330 Evans

Emily Witt

(U. Minnesota/MSRI)

"Puzzles and the principle of recursion" (Intermediate)

740 Evans

Richard Borcherds

(UCB)

"Geometric solutions of algebraic problems" (Advanced)

736 Evans

May 14

MC8

Matt Beck

(SFSU)

End-of-the-year Party! (Joint session for BMC-beginners, intermediate and advanced students)

The Lawrence Hall of Science