Archives 2011 – 2012 |

Date:	Intermediate Group Speaker, Affiliation, Topic	Advanced Group Speaker, Affiliation, Topic	Notes
September 21, 2011	Alon Amit Facebook The Wonders of the Prouhet-Thue-Morse Sequence	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco What, How, and Why
September 28, 2011	Dave Auckly MSRI A Balloon Introduction to Graph Theory	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco
October 5, 2011	Joshua Zucker Pythagorean Points, Part 1	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College Inversion in the Plane, Part 1
October 12, 2011	Joshua Zucker Pythagorean Points, Part 2	Zvezdelina Stankova Mills College Inversion in the Plane, Part 2
October 19, 2011	Linda Green Dominican University Math Auction	Stanislav Dubrovskiy MSRI, Northeastern University Einstein’s thought experiments, Lorentz’ contraction, and why you shouldn’t let your twin on a space trip
October 26, 2011	Maia Averett Mills College Knots	Linda Green Dominican University Math Wrangle
November 2, 2011	Emily McCullough Mission High School The Handshake Problem	Aaron Abrams MSRI / Emory University Finite and Infinite Geometric Series, and More
November 9, 2011	AMC-8 Preparation	Tom Davis Iterated Functions
November 16, 2011	AMC-8 Contest (Intermediate)	Alexander Volberg MSRI, Michigan State University Elementary Geometric Problems at the Forefront of Mathematics
November 23, 2011	NO MATH CIRCLE Thanksgiving
November 30, 2011	Linda Green Dominican University Combinatorics – 1	Joshua Zucker Pythagorean Points
December 7, 2011	Linda Green Dominican University Combinatorics – 2	Alon Amit Facebook Counting to more than infinity
December 14, 2011	Linda Green Dominican University Combinatorics Dash
December 21, 2011	NO MATH CIRCLE Winter Break
December 28, 2011	NO MATH CIRCLE Winter Break
January 4, 2012	NO MATH CIRCLE Winter Break
January 11, 2012	Nancy Blachman Nueva Math Circle Mathemagics	Ernesto Diaz Dominican University Redwood High School Mathematics of Voting and Apportionment	Math Wrangle practice session 1 will be on Sunday, Jan 15th from 2:00 – 5:00 pm in Guzman 301. All welcome. Here are the rules and here are the problems, which you should work in advance this time.
January 18, 2012	Brandy Wiegers San Francisco State University Slide Rules Rule! (Part 1)	Linda Green Dominican University Tiling and Induction
January 25, 2012	Brandy Wiegers San Francisco State University Slide Rules Rule! (Part 2)	Sevak Mkrtchyan MSRI / Rice University Invariants	Math Wrangle practice session 2 will be on Sunday, Jan 29th from 2:00 – 5:00 pm in Guzman 301. All welcome. Here are the problems, which you should work in advance.
February 1, 2012	Linda Green Dominican University Exploding Dots and Alien Arithmetic (Part 1)	Joshua Zucker Counting and Symmetry
February 8, 2012	Linda Green Dominican University Exploding Dots and Alien Arithmetic (Part 2)	Ted Alper EPGY / Stanford Math Circle Putting things in order
February 15, 2012	Sheila Fischer Artist Dynamic Symmetry and Art	Joshua Zucker MSRI / Art of Problem Solving AMC-10 practice session
February 22, 2012	NO MATH CIRCLE Ski Week	AMC-10/12 Contests
Tuesday February 28, 2012	BAMO Contests
February 29, 2012	NO MATH CIRCLE
March 7, 2012	Linda Green Dominican University Math Auction	Adrien Kassel MSRI Tilings and Related Objects
March 14, 2012	Joshua Zucker MSRI / Art of Problem Solving Trapezoidal and Other Shapely Numbers, Part 1	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco How to Gamble If You Must
March 21, 2012	Joshua Zucker Trapezoidal and Other Shapely Numbers, Part 2	Linda Green Dominican University Curvature and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
March 28, 2012	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco Probability	Vladislav Rutenburg Shortest Path Algorithms	Advanced Group meets in Guzman 110 this week.Advanced Group: please work on these Shortest Path Warm-up Problems BEFORE the March 28th session. Intermediate Group: BEFORE the April 4th session, please do problem #2 on non-transitive dice from last week’s handout and figure out how much you should pay to play a game that wins you $10, but only 2/3 of the time.
April 4, 2012	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco More Probability	Sanjay Ramassamy MSRI Divisibility, Primality and Modular Arithmetic	Advanced Group: please work on these Divisibility Warm-up Problems BEFORE the April 4th session. Intermediate Group: BEFORE the April 4th session, please do problem #2 on non-transitive dice from last week’s handout and figure out how much you should pay to play a game that wins you $10, but only 2/3 of the time.
April 11, 2012	NO MATH CIRCLE Spring Break
April 18, 2012	Mela Hardin Graph Theory, Part 1	Alon Amit Facebook Ramsey Numbers
April 25, 2012	Mela Hardin Graph Theory, Part 2	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco More on Ramsey Numbers
May 2, 2012	Mela Hardin Graph Theory Game	Paul Zeitz University of San Francisco More on Probability
May 9, 2012	Elena Fuchs UC Berkeley Modular Arithmetic (Part 1)	Ernesto Diaz Dominican University Redwood High School Mathematics of Digital Signals: Analog/Digital and Digital/Analog conversion and a bit of coding and transmission
May 16, 2012	Elena Fuchs UC Berkeley Modular Arithmetic (Part 2)	Stanislav Dubrovskiy Induction in Geometry: what it is and what it’s good for (Euler number, four colors and all that)
May 23, 2012	Stan Isaacs Puzzle Party

Archives 2011 – 2012

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