Circle Archives
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Date |
Instructor University or Affiliation |
Topic |
Room Number |
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Sep. 1
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Problem Solving from Different Areas of Mathematics, Part I (Beginner Level I) |
334 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Solving Problems from Bulgarian Math Contests, Part I (Beginners Level II) |
334 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
How to Win Every Game (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Ted Alper Stanford Math Circle, On Line High School Stanford |
Combinatorial Games (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Igor Ganichev UCB PhD in Computer Science, Vmware Inc, IMO Winner |
Touring Computer Science in a MathTank (Advanced) |
736 |
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Sep. 8 |
Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Problem Solving from Different Areas of Mathematics, Part II (Beginner Level I) |
334 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Solving Problems from Bulgarian Math Contests, Part II (Beginners Level II) |
334 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
What Isn’t Changing (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Mass Point Geometry (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Eugenia Rosu UC Berkeley |
Some Problems in Graph Theory (Advanced)Handout |
736 |
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Sep. 15 |
Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
More Problems in Competition Math: Counting, Probability, and Number Theory (Beginner Level I) |
334 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Problems From Competition Math (Beginners Level II) |
334 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Magic with a Half Deck (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Circle Geometry (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Eugenia Rosu UC Berkeley |
Some problems in combinatorics and graph theory (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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Sep. 22 |
Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
More Problems in Competition Math: Counting, Probability, and Number Theory (Beginner Level I) Part II (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
More Problems in Competition Math: Counting, Probability, and Number Theory (Beginner Level I) Part II (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
A Peek over the Shoulders of Ancient Masters (Geometry) Part I (Intermediate Level I) Handout |
332 |
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Igor Ganichev UCB PhD in Computer Science, Vmware Inc, IMO Winner |
Vectors (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Laura Pierson BMC Participant, MC Coordinator, USAJMO Winner |
Incompleteness and Provability (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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Sep. 29 |
Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Permutations, Combinations, and Beyond Part I (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Permutations, Combinations, and Beyond Part I (Beginners Level II Handout |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
A Peek over the Shoulders of Ancient Masters (Geometry) Part II (Intermediate Level I) Handout |
332 |
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Igor Ganichev UCB PhD in Computer Science, Vmware Inc, IMO Winner |
Vectors (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Olga Holtz UC Berkeley |
You Thought Modular Arithmetic was Boring? (Advanced) |
736 |
|
 MC1
Oct. 6
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Permutations, Combinations, and Beyond Part II(Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Permutations, Combinations, and Beyond Part II(Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Geometric Constructions Handout(Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Tom Davis San Jose Math Circle |
Symmetry (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Peter Bates MSRI/Michigan State |
And Now For SUMthing Completely Different Handout(Advanced) |
736 |
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Oct. 13
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Permutations, Combinations, and Beyond Part III (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Permutations, Combinations, and Beyond Part III (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Similarity and Proportion (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Tom Davis San Jose Math Circle |
Symmetry II (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Amos Fiat Simons Institute/Tel Aviv U. |
Issues in Game Theory (Advanced) |
736 |
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Oct. 20 |
Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Triangles, and Altitudes Part I Handout(Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Sierpinski’s Sieve (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Similar Tringles Wrap Up (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Inversion in the Plane, Part I Handout (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Aaron Kleinman 23andMe, a biotech company, Mountain View |
Rational Rent-Splitting Handout(Advanced) |
736 |
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Oct. 27 |
Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Triangles, and Altitudes Part II (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath/Brilliant.org |
Sierpinski's Sieve and Other Fractals Part II (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Problems from Various Areas of Mathematics Handout 1 Handout 2(Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Inversion in the Plane, Part II (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Ali Gurel Star League |
Information Theory Puzzles (Advanced) |
736 |
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| MC2
Nov. 3
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Svetlana Roudenko MSRI/George Washington |
Turning Lies into Truth (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Sierpinski's Sieve and Other Fractals Part III (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Problems from Various Areas of Mathematics II (Intermediate Level I) Handout 1 Handout 2 |
332 |
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Andrei Tarfulea MSRI, Princeton |
Principles and Practice for the AMC 8 (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Dmitry Fuchs UC Davis |
Billiards (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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Nov. 10
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Svetlana Roudenko MSRI/George Washington |
Odd and Even Numbers (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Sierpinski's Sieve and Other Fractals Part IV (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Problems from Various Areas of Mathematics III (Intermediate Level I) Handout |
332 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Inversion in the Plane, Part III (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Ted Courant Bentley School |
The Geometry and Algebra of Conic Sections |
736 |
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Nov. 17 |
Svetlana Roudenko MSRI/George Washington |
3D Geometry: Meet the Cube (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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BMC Staff BMC Staff |
AMC 8 Contest (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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BMC Staff BMC Staff |
AMC 8 Contest (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Quan Lam UC Office of the President |
Modular Arithmetic and Its Applications (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Pratima Karpe BASIS Independent School Silicon Valley |
Voting theory analysis using graphs (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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Nov. 24 |
Svetlana Roudenko MSRI/George Washington |
Word problems and common sense (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Exploding Dots (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
KenKen Challenges (Intermediate Level I) Handout,Gaussian Integer KenKen, Slides |
332 |
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Alex Zorn TBA |
Strategies for Games of Chance Part I (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Elina Robeva UC Berkeley |
Polynomials (Advanced) |
736 |
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| Dec. 1
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Svetlana Roudenko MSRI/George Washington |
TBA (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
TBA (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
KenKen in Different Number Systems (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Alex Zorn TBA |
Strategies for Games of Chance Part II (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Bernd Sturmfels UC Berkeley |
CONVEX POLYTOPES (Advanced) |
736 |
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| MC3
Dec. 8
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Svetlana Roudenko MSRI/George Washington |
Review Problems (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Contest Problems Relating to Number Theory (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
KenKen in Different Number Systems (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Alon Amit TBA |
Fusible, ordinal and big numbers (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Kim Eunjung Simons |
TBA (Advanced) |
736 |
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| Dec. 16
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Lior Pachter UC Berkeley |
End-of-year Party
Joint session for BMC-Upper: Mathematics and Biology NOTE: End-of-the-year Event has been moved to WEDNESDAY, Dec 16 at Lawrence Hall of Science 6-8pm |
Lawrence Hall of Science |
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Dec. 22 |
Winter and New Year's Break |
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Dec. 29 |
Winter and New Year's Break |
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Jan. 5 |
Winter and New Year's Break |
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| MC4
Jan. 12
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Expected Value and Games of Chance Part I (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
From Light Bulbs and Switches to Talking with Satellites Part I (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
TBA (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Bernt Wahl UC Berkeley/UC Santa Cruz |
Fractals and Chaos Theory (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Chris Overton Ayasdi |
TBA (Advanced) |
736 |
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Jan. 19
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Expected Value and Games of Chance Part II (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
From Light Bulbs and Switches to Talking with Satellites Part II (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Number Sequences, Differences, and Sums (Intermediate Level I) |
332 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
AMC 10 Preparation (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Alexander Shapiro UC Berkeley |
Algorithms and Strategies (Advanced) |
736 |
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Jan. 26 |
Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Expected Value and Games of Chance (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
From Light Bulbs and Switches to Talking with Satellites Part III (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
More Number Sequences, Differences, and Sums (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
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Robert Kusner MSRI/U. Massachusetts at Amherst |
Electrons on the Sphere (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Dmitry Fuchs UC Davis |
AROUND $(1+\sqrt2)^n$. (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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Feb. 2 |
Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Seven Bridges of Königsberg. (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Seven Bridges of Königsberg. (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska MSRI/UC Irvine |
Spherical Geometry (Intermediate Level I) Handout |
334 |
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BMC Staff BMC Staff |
AMC 10A/12A Contest (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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BMC Staff BMC Staff |
AMC 10A/12A Contest (Advanced) |
736 |
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Feb. 9
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Valentine's Day Contest Problems (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Natalya St. Clair Harvey Mudd College and University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Valentine's Day Contest Problems (Beginners Level II) Handout |
340 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Multiplicative Functions, Part I (Intermediate Level I) A Decade of the Berkeley Math Circle Vol 2 |
334 |
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Ted Courant Bentley School |
Patterns and Connections (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
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Maria Monks Gillespie UC Berkeley |
Generating Functions and Q-analogs (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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Feb. 16
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Balancing scales and a selection of problems (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Balancing scales and a selection of problems (Beginners Level II) Handout |
340 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Multiplicative Functions, Part II (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
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Kelli Talaska MSRI/UC Irvine |
BAMO prep (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Laura Pierson BMC Participant, MC Coordinator, USAJMO Winner |
Dissections and Decompositions (Advanced) |
736 |
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Feb. 23 |
BMC Staff BMC Staff |
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| MC6
Mar. 1
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Balancing Scales (Beginner Level I) Handout |
340 |
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
Balancing Scales (Beginners Level II) Handout |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
334 |
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Review of the 2016 AMC 10 (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Alex Shapiro UC Berkeley |
Euler’s Function (Advanced) |
736 |
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Mar. 3 (Thurs) |
BMC Staff BMC Staff |
AIME I for Qualifiers |
TBA |
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Mar. 8
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Freedom for the Clones, Part I (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Freedom for the Clones, Part I (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
TBA (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Review of 2016 AMC 10B Exam (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
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Pratima Karpe BASIS Independent School, Silicon Valley |
Questions involving the Card Game SET". (Advanced) |
736 |
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Mar. 15 |
Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Freedom for the Clones, Part II (Beginner Level I) Main Video |
340 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Freedom for the Clones, Part II (Beginners Level II) Continuation And Even More! |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
TBA (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
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Vera Serganova UC Berkeley |
Cutting a Square (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
|
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Dimitar Grantcharov U. Texas at Arlington |
Inequalities (Advanced) |
736 |
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Mar. 22 |
Spring Break |
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Mar. 29 |
Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Freedom for the Clones Part III (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Zvezdelina Stankova BMC Director, Mills College |
Freedom for the Clones Part III (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
TBA (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
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Ted Courant Bentley School |
Tantalizing Triangles (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
|
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Eleonora Di Nezza MSRI/Imperial College, London |
The Euler characteristic and the Gauss Bonnet theorem (Advanced) |
736 |
|
| MC7
Apr. 5
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Ali Gurel Star League |
Math Games & Puzzles (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Partitions and Number Puzzles (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
|
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
TBA (Intermediate Level I) Handout |
334 |
|
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Elina Robeva UC Berkeley |
USAJMO Preparation (Intermediate Level II) Handout |
740 |
|
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Alexander Shapiro UC Berkeley |
Chebyshev Polynomials (Advanced) |
736 |
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Apr. 12
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Ali Gurel Star League |
Math Games & Puzzles Part II (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Kelli Talaska UCB/Octopus Math |
Partitions and Number Puzzles Part II (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
|
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Petra Munih PhD Biophysics/Structural Biology, Brandeis/Harvard U. |
TBA (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
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Andrea Jedwab Tehiyah Day School/Saint Mary's College |
Groups and symmetry (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
|
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Austin Shapiro Proof School |
Lattices and the Geometry of Numbers (Advanced) |
736 |
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Apr. 19 |
Ali Gurel Star League |
Math Games & Puzzles Part III (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Proofs and Visualizations (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
|
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Vedic Math and Gems from Geometry (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
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Andrea Jedwab Tehiyah Day School/Saint Mary's College |
Groups and Symmetry (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
|
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Hong Chen PhD Physics, Toronto/Radiation Oncology, Keiser |
A Taste of Monte Carlo and Radiation Transport - treating cancer with radiation therapy (Advanced) |
736 |
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Apr. 19-20 |
BMC Staff BMC Staff |
USAMO/USAJMO for Qualifiers |
TBA |
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Apr. 26 |
Roseanna Paleatere Tulane University |
A Taste of Topology (Beginners I) |
340 |
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Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Proofs and Visualizations Part II (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
|
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Gems of Geometry, Part 2 (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
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Tatiana Shubin San Jose State U. |
Combinatorics+Geometry+Algebra=Fun (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
|
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Paul Zeitz U. San Francisco |
Probability, Expectation, and Random Walks Part I (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
|
| MC8
May. 3
|
Roseanna Paleatere Tulane University |
A Taste of Topology Part II (Beginner Level I) |
340 |
|
Zandra Vinegar MoMath |
Proofs and Visualizations Part III (Beginners Level II) |
340 |
|
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Norm Prokup College Preparatory School |
Gems of Geometry, Part 3 (Intermediate Level I) |
334 |
|
|
Quan Lam UC Office of the President |
Algebra, Puzzles, and Angle Trisection (Intermediate Level II) |
740 |
|
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Paul Zeitz U. San Francisco |
Probability, Expectation, and Random Walks Part II (Advanced) Handout |
736 |
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May 10
|
Richard Borcherds UC Berkeley |
Monster Groups Handout Joint session for BMC-Upper |
LHS |
MC1
MC1