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 |
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September 08 | Zvezdelina Stankova | Inversion in the Plane | |
September 15 | Tom Davis | Mathematics of Geodesic Domes | |
September 22 | David Hayes | Graphs | |
September 29 | BAMA at SCU: John Mitchem | Paradoxes in Averages | |
October 06 | Brian Conrey | Number Theory | |
October 13 | Tom Rike | More Euler | |
October 20 | Tim Sanders | Figurate Numbers | |
October 27 | Tom Davis | Mathematical Biology | |
November 03 | BAMA at SJSU: Francis Su | How to Cut a Cake (and Other Things) Fairly: the Mathematics of Conflict Resolution | |
November 10 | Dimitar Grantcharov | Triangles and Triangle Inequalities | |
November 17 | Serge Lang | What is? | |
November 24 | Break | Thanksgiving Break | |
December 01 | BAMA at SCU: Erica Flapan | When Topology Meets Chemistry | |
December 08 | Meets at SCU: David Hayes | Mathematical Induction | |
December 15 | Bob and Ellen Kaplan | Large Numbers | |
December 16 | MSRI event | National Conference on Math Circles and Olympiads. (sign up online) | |
December 22 | Break | Winter Break | |
January 12 | Helen Moore | Pigeonhole Principle | |
January 19 | Tom Davis | Optics and Geometry | |
January 26 | Helmer Aslaksen | Observing the Sun and the Moon from Different Parts of the World | |
February 02 | Joshua Zucker | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, What Comes Next? | |
February 09 | No meeting! | No meeting! | |
February 11 | BAMA at SJSU: Steven Krantz | How to Reveal All Your Secrets without Imparting Any Concrete Information | |
February 16 | Paul Zeitz | BAMO Practice | |
February 22 | Contest | Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad | |
February 23 | Meets at SCU: Tatiana Shubin and/or Tom Davis | BAMO Aftermath | |
March 02 | Dimitar Grantcharov | Games | |
March 06 | Contest | BAMO Awards | |
March 09 | Joshua Zucker | TBD | |
March 16 | BAMA at SJSU: John Conway | Some Very Interesting Sequences | |
March 23 | Tatiana Shubin | Symmetry (beyond geometry) | |
March 30 | Brian Conrey | TBD | |
April 05 | BAMA at SJSU: Joe Gallian | The Making of the 2003 Math Awareness Month Poster | |
April 06 | No meeting! | No meeting! | |
April 13 | Tom Rike | Fermat Numbers and the 17-gon | |
April 20 | Tom Davis | Matrices | |
April 27 | No meeting! | No meeting! | |
April 29 | BAMA at SJSU: Helmer Aslaksen | Heavenly Mathematics: The Mathematics of the Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Gregorian Calendars | |
May 04 | Everyone | Pizza Party and Awards! |