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SCHEDULE 2023-2024

San Jose Math Circle 2023-2024 Schedule
Date	Instructor	Topic
9/26/2023	BAMA with Tom Edgar (online)	Providing Perspective on Practical and Pleasant Pictorial Proofs
10/3/2023	Shamil Asgarli	Combinatorial Number Theory
10/10/2023	Maria Nogin	Four Numbers
10/17/2023	Raghu Subramanian	Invariants
10/24/2023	BAMA with Robert Bosch (online)	Single-Line Drawings via Mathematical Optimizations
10/31/2023	Raghu Subramanian	Slicing and Dicing Problems
11/7/2023	Tom Davis	Iterated Functions
11/14/2023	Tom Davis	SETS Planets
11/28/2023	Thai Nhan	Straightedge and compass construction
12/5/2023	BAMA with Cornelia Van Cott (online)	Card Shuffling and Mathematics
1/9/2024	Tom Davis	Mathematics of Sudoku
1/16/2024	Shamil Asgarli	Combinatorics: Counting Problems
1/23/2024	Cris Perdue	A simplified system of proof
1/30/2024	Ted Alper	De Bruijn sequences
2/6/2024	Raghu Subramanian	Boolean Algebra
2/13/2024	BAMA with Anthony Bonato (online)	Dots and Lines: The Hidden Networks around Us
2/27/2024		BAMO Prep
3/5/2024	Alexanderson Lecture with Stephen DeBacker	“Well-known” gems in geometry, number theory, and analysis
3/6/2024	Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad
3/12/2024	Tom Davis	BAMO aftermath
4/2/2024	BAMA with Stephen DeBacker (online)	Eight Color Theorem: Genus Loves Coloring.
4/9/2024	Shruthi Sridhar	Explorations of Polyhedra
4/16/2024	Raghu Subramanian	Catalan Numbers
4/23/2024	Shamil Asgarli	Combinatorics: Counting Problems (Part II)
4/30/2024	End-of-the-Year Social
5/7/2024	BAMA with Katherine Stange (online)	The rational numbers are not what they seem.

San Jose Math Circle 2022-2023 Schedule
Date	Instructor	Topic	Handout/Link
10/18/2022	BAMA with Liz McMahon and Gary Gordon (online)	The Game of Set	Recording Link
10/25/2022	Tom Davis	Fractions and decimals
11/1/2022	Tom Davis	Conway’s Rational Tangles
11/8/2022	Alon Amit	Like a Square
11/15/2022	Tom Davis	The Mathematics of Zome
11/29/2022	Yier Lin	The mysteries of probability
12/6/2022	BAMA with John M. Lee (online)	The Curvature of Space	Recording Link
1/10/2023	Raghu Subramanian	Distance-Time Problems
1/17/2023	Raghu Subramanian	—
1/24/2023	Shamil Asgarli	Invariants in Problem Solving
1/31/2023	Raghu Subramanian	Game Theory
2/7/2023	BAMA with Vince Matsko (online)	Algorithmic Puzzles Design
2/14/2023	Alon Amit	Calculating by “cheating”
2/28/2023	Mathew Lee	BAMO Prep
3/7/2023	Tom Davis	BAMO Aftermath
3/14/2023	Tatiana Shubin	Bluebird Medley
3/21/2023	Gabriella A Pinter (ONLINE session)	Bracing Architectural Structures
3/28/2023	Gabriella A Pinter (ONLINE session)	Diagonals Galore
4/18/2023	Tatiana Shubin	Parity and Other Invariants
4/25/2023	Shamil Asgarli	Discrete Geometry
5/2/2023	Alon Amit	Big Numbers
5/9/2023	BAMA with Josh Laison (online)	Puzzles in Geometric Graph Theory
5/16/2023	Raghu Subramanian	Mathematical Induction

Note:

Some topics have not yet been decided, hence the “TBD” = “To Be Determined”.

SJMC meetings take place regularly on Tuesdays at Santa Clara University (Vari Hall, Room 129) from 7:00PM to 9:00PM, unless noted otherwise.
Group socials are December 30, 2022 and May 30, 2023.
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.
Read more about Russian-style circles.

The following 2021 -2022 schedule shows who will be leading the math circle session on a given day.

BAMA Talks Schedule
Date	Instructor	Topic	Handout
2/01/2022	Ami Radunskaya	The Sound of Chaos: Perceiving Patterns	Handout
4/05/2022	Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins	Explore Algebraic Starscapes

San Jose Math Circle Online Schedule
Date	Instructor	Topic	Handout
1/28/2022	Raghu Subramanian	Invariants	Handout
2/04/2022	Raghu Subramanian	Information Theory	Handout
2/11/2022	Spencer Bowen	Guessing Games
2/18/2022	Joshua Zucker	Unfriendly and friendly subsets
2/25/2022	Alon Amit	Probability Paradoxes
3/04/2022	Spencer Bowen	Queen’s Move (Wythoff’s Game) and the Golden Ratio	Handout
3/11/2022	Spencer Bowen	Stackup	Handout 1 Handout 2
3/18/2022	Ted Alper	Hall’s Matching Theorem
3/25/2022	Raghu Subramanian	Game Theory
*04/01/2022*	*Spring Break*
4/08/2022	Gabriella A Pinter	Bracing Architectural Structures
4/15/2022	Gabriella A Pinter	Diagonals Galore!
4/22/2022	Alon Amit	Problems about Knowledge
4/29/2022	Lucian Sega	Methods for Solving Algebraic Equations
5/06/2022	Lucian Sega	Systems of Equations

Note:

Some topics have not yet been decided, hence the “TBD” = “To Be Determined”.

The red highlighted dates are BAMA talks so there will be no SJMC meeting.
SJMC meetings take place regularly ONLINE on Fridays from 7:00PM to 9:00PM, unless noted otherwise.
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.

BAMA Talks Schedule
Date	Instructor	Topic	Handout
10/13/2020	Edmund Harriss	CNC Craft:The mathematics of moving machines to make	Handout
12/01/2020	Steve Trettel	Life in Curved Space	Handout
02/09/2021	Julie Bergner	Fun with Egyptian Fractions	Handout
03/16/2021	Tony Varilly-Alvarado	Magic Squares of Squares	Handout

Date	Instructor	Topic	Handout
9/18/2020	Joshua Zucker	Egyptian Fractions
9/25/2020	Joshua Zucker	Adventures in Short Division
10/2/2020	Lucian Sega (7:30pm-9:30pm)	Cyclic Quadrilateral and Ptolemy Theorems I
10/9/2020	Lucian Sega (7:30pm-9:30pm)	Cyclic Quadrilateral and Ptolemy Theorems II
10/16/2020	Joshua Zucker	TBD
10/23/2020	Amanda Serenevy	Counting Cube Colorings I
10/30/2020	Amanda Serenevy	Counting Cube Colorings II
11/6/2020	Joshua Zucker	Grid Power
11/13/2020	Ted Alper	Rational Approximations
11/20/2020	Ter Alper	Finite Differences
*11/27/2020*	*Thanksgiving Break*
12/4/2020	Joshua Zucker	TBD
12/11/2020	Lucian Sega (7:30pm-9:30pm)	TBD
12/18/2020	Lucian Sega (7:30pm-9:30pm)	TBD
12/25/2020	Winter Break
1/1/2021	Winter Break
1/8/2021	Spencer Bowen	Stack Up
1/15/2021	Joshua Zucker	Chromatic Polynomials
1/22/2021	Joshua ZUcker	Counting and Symmetry
1/29/2021	Matt Roscoe	Menger Sponge
2/5/2021	Lauren Rose	Math Behind SET
2/12/2021	Lauren Rose	EvenQuad
2/19/2021	Joshua Zucker	Shapely Averages
2/26/2021	Raghu Subramanian	What every intelligent student should know about AI
3/5/2021	Yul Inn	Tournament and Graph Theory
3/12/2021	Yul Inn	Tournament and Graph Theory II
3/19/2021	Joshua Zucker	Finding the Right Remainders
3/26/2021	Alon Amit	Big Numbers
4/2/2021	Alon Amit	TBD
4/9/2021	Brian Conrey	Estimation
4/16/2021	Joshua Zucker	Square Dancing and Other Partner Puzzles!
4/23/2021	Paul Zeitz	Number Theory 1
4/30/2021	Paul Zeitz	Number Theory 2
5/7/2021	Paul Zeitz	Number Theory 3
5/14/2021	Joshua Zucker	TBD