| Date |
Leader |
Topic |
Handouts |
| September 05 |
Zvezdelina Stankova |
Monovariants |
pdf |
| September 12 |
Tom Davis |
Zome Geometry |
pdf |
| September 19 |
David Farmer |
Probability and counting |
pdf |
| September 26 |
BAMA at SJSU: Marty Isaacs |
Pentagons, Soccer Balls and Euler |
pdf |
| October 03 |
Joshua Zucker |
The Bouncing Ball Problem |
pdf |
| October 10 |
Steve Blasberg |
Interesting Problems from Last Year’s Competitions |
|
| October 17 |
Laurens Gunnarsen |
Quad: Gauss’s Favorite Game |
|
| October 24 |
BAMA at SCU: Richard Borchers |
Very Large Integers |
flyer |
| October 31 |
Tom Davis |
Rubik’s Cube as an Introduction to Group Theory |
pdf |
| November 07 |
David Farmer |
Egyptian Fractions |
pdf |
| November 14 |
Tom Rike |
Mass Point Geometry |
pdf |
| November 21 |
Break |
Thanksgiving Break |
|
| November 29 |
BAMA at SJSU: Joe Gallian |
The Mathematics of Identification Numbers |
flyer |
| December 05 |
Matthias Beck |
Polyhedra |
pdf |
| December 12 |
Tatiana Shubin, Tom Davis, Paul Craciunoiu and guests |
A Russian-Style Math Circle |
set 1, set 2 |
| December 19 |
Break |
Winter Break |
|
| January 09 |
Joshua Zucker |
Geometric Inequalities and Symmetry |
|
| January 16 |
BAMA at SCU: Art Benjamin |
Combinatorial Trigonometry (and a method to DIE for) |
flyer, CombTrig, DIE |
| January 23 |
Tom Davis |
Infinity |
pdf |
| January 30 |
Marc Roth |
Bead Necklaces |
|
| February 06 |
Brian Conrey |
Problems You Can Solve Using the Pigeonhole Principle |
jpg |
| February 13 |
Ivan Matic |
Geometry of Circles |
pdf, tex |
| February 20 |
Tom Davis |
BAMO Preparation |
|
| February 26 |
Contest |
Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad |
|
| February 27 |
BAMA at SCU: Leslie Hobgen |
Matrices, Digraphs, Markov Chains and Their Use By Google |
flyer, slideshow |
| March 05 |
Tatiana Shubin and/or Tom Davis |
BAMO Aftermath |
|
| March 12 |
Paul Zeitz |
Brussels Sprouts |
|
| March 19 |
Ivan Matic |
Combinatorial Games |
pdf |
| March 26 |
Steve Blasberg |
AIME Problems |
AIME, hints |
| April 02 |
BAMA at SJSU: Kannan Soundarajan |
From Tic-Tac-Toe to Additive Combinatorics |
flyer |
| April 09 |
Tatiana Shubin, Tom Davis, Paul Craciunoiu and guests |
A Russian-Style Math Circle |
set 1, solutions 1, set 2, solutions 2 |
| April 16 |
Matthias Beck |
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Mesages |
pdf |
| April 23 |
Tom Rike |
Dynamic Geometry |
pdf |
| April 30 |
Hidefumi Katsuura/Stan Isaacs |
Pizza and Puzzles Party! |
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