| Date |
Leader |
Topic |
Handouts |
| September 10 |
Zvezdelina Stankova |
Classical Geometry |
pdf |
| September 17 |
Ivan Matic |
Combinatorics on the Chessboard |
pdf |
| September 26 |
BAMA at SCU: Bernd Sturmfels |
Tropical Mathematics |
pdf |
| October 01 |
Alon Amit |
Point Sets With Few Distances |
|
| October 08 |
Matt Beck |
Graph Coloring |
pdf |
| October 15 |
Alon Amit |
Avoiding Infinity and a Curious Coin Game |
|
| October 22 |
BAMA at SJSU: Brian Conrad |
Rational Right Triangles |
pdf |
| October 29 |
Tom Davis |
Conway’s Rational Tangles |
pdf |
| November 05 |
Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin, and guests |
A Russian-Style Math Circle |
probs |
| November 12 |
Tom Rike |
Sums and Bernoulli Numbers |
pdf |
| November 19 |
David Farmer |
Circle Packing |
|
| November 26 |
Break |
Thanksgiving Break |
|
| December 03 |
BAMA at SCU: Rick Scott |
Counting Elements in Reflection Groups |
pdf |
| December 10 |
David Farmer |
Factorials |
|
| December 17 |
Tom Davis |
Zome Geometry |
pdf |
| December 24 |
Break |
Winter Break |
|
| January 07 |
Tom Davis |
Working backwards to find solutions |
combine, subdivide |
| January 14 |
Joshua Zucker |
Anyone Got Change for a Dollar? |
pdf |
| January 22 |
BAMA at SJSU: Maria Klawe |
Winning Strategies for the PSP Game Lumines |
pdf |
| January 28 |
Tom Davis |
Geodesic Domes |
pdf |
| February 04 |
Zan Armstrong |
Infinity |
|
| February 11 |
Brian Conrey |
Powers of 2 |
|
| February 18 |
Paul Zeitz |
Preparation for BAMO |
|
| February 24 |
Contest |
Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad |
|
| February 25 |
BAMA at SCU: Estelle Basor |
The Utilities Problem and Some Related Topics |
pdf |
| March 04 |
Tom Davis and/or Tatiana Shubin |
BAMO aftermath |
|
| March 11 |
Jim Tanton |
Weird Multiplication |
|
| March 18 |
Alon Amit |
Probability and Paradoxes |
link |
| March 26 |
BAMA at SJSU: Jeff Weeks |
The Shape of Space |
pdf |
| April 01 |
Joshua Zucker |
April Fools and other mathematical logic puzzles |
pdf |
| April 08 |
Steve Blasberg |
AIME 2009 |
|
| April 15 |
Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin, and guests |
A Russian-Style Math Circle |
home, home soln, in class, in class soln |
| April 22 |
Matt Beck |
TBD |
|
| April 29 |
Tom Rike |
The Pell Equation |
pdf |
| May 06 |
TBD |
Pizza and Puzzles Party! |
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