Please note that years older than 2007-2008 have no handouts yet.
The following schedule shows who will be leading the circle on a given day.
Date | Leader | Topic | Handouts |
---|---|---|---|
September 11 | Zvezdelina Stankova | Vectors: Applications in Geometry | |
September 18 | Tom Davis | Counting Things | |
September 25 | Tom Davis | Big Numbers | |
October 02 | BAMA at SCU: Persi Diaconis | Mathematics and Coincidences | |
October 09 | Meets at SCU: Joshua Zucker | Accidental Summations | |
October 16 | Tatiana Shubin | Math Induction | |
October 23 | David Hayes | Pigeonhole Principle | |
October 30 | David Hayes | Binomial Coefficients | |
November 06 | BAMA at SJSU: Joel Hass | Algorithms in Topology | |
November 13 | Byron Walden | Where Do You Stand? A Classic Calculus Problem Done with Elementary Geometry | |
November 20 | Tom Davis | Euler’s Theorem | |
November 27 | Break | Thanksgiving Break | |
December 04 | Meets at SCU: Tom Davis | Geometric Construction | |
December 07 | BAMA at SCU: Bjorn Poonen | Elliptic Curves | |
December 11 | Hidefumi Katsuura | Inequalities | |
December 18 | Break | Winter Break | |
January 08 | Tatiana Shubin | Finite Geometries | |
January 15 | Mike Rubinstein | Elementary Number Theory and RSA Cryptography | |
January 22 | Brian Conrey | Probability | |
January 29 | Brian Conrey | Continued Fractions | |
February 05 | David Hayes | Modular Arithmetic and Polynomials | |
February 12 | BAMA at SJSU: Richard Scott | Triangles – the Thick and Thin of it | |
February 19 | Paul Zeitz | BAMO Practice | |
February 25 | Contest | Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad | |
February 26 | Meets at SCU: Tatiana Shubin and/or Tom Davis | BAMO Aftermath | |
March 03 | BAMA at SCU: Donald Saari | Mathematical Surprises About Voting | |
March 05 | Tatiana Shubin | Complex Numbers | |
March 12 | Joshua Zucker | Symmetry | |
March 19 | Brian Conrey | Iteration and Fractals | |
March 26 | David Hayes | Some Problems in Graph Theory | |
April 02 | Tom Davis | Permutations | |
April 04 | BAMA at SJSU: John Stillwell | 1, 2, 4, 8: Dimensions We Appreciate | |
April 09 | Tatiana Shubin | Groups and Crystals | |
April 16 | Brian Conrey | Diophantine Equations | |
April 23 | Everyone | Pizza Party and Awards! | |
May 12 | Meets at Stanford: Hendrik Lenstra | Escher and the Droste Effect |