Schedule
2009 - 2010
The following schedule shows who will be leading the circle on a given day.
| Date | Leader | Topic | Handouts |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 09 | Zvezdelina Stankova | Before and Beyond IMO | |
| September 16 | Ivan Matic | Counting with Bijections | pdf, challenge |
| September 23 | Tom Davis | Infinity | pdf, challenge |
| September 30 | Lucian Sega | Perfect Squares | pdf, challenge |
| October 07 | Joshua Zucker | Close Encounters of the Stirling Kind | pdf, challenge |
| October 14 | BAMA at SCU: Eleanor Rieffel | From Photographs to Models: the Geometry of Image-Based 3D Reconstruction | |
| October 21 | Tom Rike | Heptadecagon | challenge |
| October 28 | Kent Morrison | Optimal Stopping Rules | challenge, pdf |
| November 04 | David Farmer and Ameya Pitale | Combinatorial Games | |
| November 11 | David Farmer and Jeremy Van Horn-Morris | Curvature of Surfaces | |
| November 20 | BAMA at SCU: Robert Bryant | Rolling and Tumbling---The idea of Holonomy | |
| November 25 | Break | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 02 | Matt Beck | Mobius Strip | |
| December 09 | Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin, and guests | A Russian-Style Math Circle | problem set 1 (doc), problem set 1 (pdf) |
| December 16 | BAMA at SJSU: Melanie Wood | Random Behavior in the Prime Numbers | |
| December 23 | Break | Winter Break | |
| December 30 | Break | Winter Break | |
| January 06 | BAMA at SJSU: Bruce Reznick | What does ">" really mean? | |
| January 13 | Alon Amit | Problems about Squares | |
| January 16 | Joshua Zucker | Demostration Math Circle at the Joint Math Meetings, San Francisco, Moscone Center, Room 3008. To participate contact Tatiana Shubin <shubin@math.sjsu.edu> | |
| January 16 | SIGMAA on Circles | The Great Math Wrangle at the Joint Math Meeting (see SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers - <a href="http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2124_sigma.html">here</a>), San Francisco, Moscone center. Room 3008. To participate, contac | |
| January 20 | Tatiana Shubin | Introduction to Group Theory | doc |
| January 27 | Brian Conrey | The Game of Set | |
| February 03 | David Auckly | Permutation Puzzles | |
| February 10 | BAMA at SCU: Federico Ardila | Matroids as a Theory of Independence | |
| February 17 | Paul Zeitz | Prep for BAMO | |
| February 23 | Contest | BAMO | BAMO 8, BAMO 12 |
| February 24 | Tom Davis and/or Tatiana Shubin | BAMO Aftermath | |
| March 03 | Tom Davis | Kenken and Mathematics | |
| March 10 | BAMA at SJSU: Ted Hill | The First-Digit Phenomenon, or Benford’s Law | |
| March 17 | Timothy Chu, Cynthia Day, Tony Ho | TBD | |
| March 24 | Joshua Zucker | Counting Tilings | |
| April 07 | Steve Blasberg | A First-Hand Look at the 2010 AIME | |
| April 14 | Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin and guests | A Russian-Style Math Circle | problem set 1 (pdf) |
| April 21 | Matt Beck | Points, Lines, Planes, and Hyperplanes | |
| April 28 | Tom Rike | Geometric Construction Problems | |
| May 05 | TBD | Pizza & Puzzle Party! |
Note:
- Some topics have not yet been decided, hence the "TBD" = "To Be Determined".
- The dark red dates are BAMA talks so there will be no SJMC meeting.
- SJMC meetings take place regularly on Wednesdays, in MH-323 at SJSU, from 7:00PM to 9:00PM, see directions.
- If you'd like to see your name on this schedule page, as a leader of a circle session, contact us!
- Handouts of past meetings will be posted as we receive them. If you have past handouts that you don't see here, please let us know.
- Read more about Russian-style circles.