The upcoming year will once again feature many exciting speakers and topics. I'm in the process of filling up the schedule, so check back often to see the latest. Click on the pencil icon in the last column to get practice problems or extra information about each talk. The schedules and handouts for prior years are available here: 2005/6, 2006/7, 2007/8. Also please check out the snack sign up page
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Date
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Speaker
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Title and Topic
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work sheet
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| September 14 |
Joshua Zucker
..... Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
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Mathematical Games |
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| September 21 |
Peter Herreshoff
..... Gunn High School
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Catalan numbers |
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| September 28 |
Ted Alper
..... EPGY
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Induction (in depth) |
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| October 5 |
Nathan Pflueger
..... Stanford
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Abel Summation |
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| October 12 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Mathematical Mystery Tour, part 1 |
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| October 19 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Mathematical Mystery Tour, part 2 |
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| October 26 |
Matthias Beck
..... SFSU
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Codes, ciphers, and secret messages |
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| November 2 |
Tom Davis
..... Silicon Graphics
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The Mathematics of Sudoku |
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| November 9 |
Tom Davis
..... Silicon Graphics
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Very large numbers |
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| November 16 |
Sam Payne
..... Stanford
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Archimedes: never say lever |
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| November 23 |
Tim Sanders
..... mathleague.org
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Figurate numbers |
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| November 30 |
Thanksgiving break |
--- no math circle --- |
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| December 7 |
Ralph Cohen
..... Stanford
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Polynomials, Rational Functions, and Topology |
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| December 14 |
Joshua Zucker
..... Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
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Anyone got change for a dollar?
Party: ice cream a-plenty!
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Date
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Speaker
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Title and Topic
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work sheet
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| January 11 |
Brian Conrad
..... Stanford
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Rational right triangles |
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| January 18 |
Ravi Vakil
..... Stanford
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Three Delphic impossibilities |
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| January 25 |
Rafe Mazzeo
..... Stanford
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Surfaces, genus, orientability, & 3D manifolds |
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| February 1 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Ramanujan's last theorem, part 1 |
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| February 8 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Ramanujan's last theorem, part 2 |
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| February 15 |
Winter break |
--- no math circle --- |
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| February 22 |
Winter break |
--- no math circle --- |
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| March 1 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Ramanujan's last theorem, conclusion |
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| March 8 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Number theoretic bingo |
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| March 15 |
Thomas Rike
Oakland High School
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Bernoulli Numbers |
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| March 22 |
Paul Zeitz
.....Univ. of San Francisco
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How abundant can numbers be? Mathematica notebook: right click |
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| March 29 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Beyond the sum of two squares (& bingo continued) |
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| April 5 |
Zvezdelina Stankova
..... Berkeley / Mills College
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Multiplicative Functions |
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| April 12 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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From Lagrange to Galois
End of year ice cream party!
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