Speakers, topics, and handouts for the 2006-2007 Stanford Math Circle sessions appear in the table below and in practical essay writings https://essayslab.com/ Practice problems for each talk can be downloaded by clicking the pencil icon in the last column. Also follow the links for additional material.
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Fall 2006 Session

Date Speaker Title and Topic
September 17
Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford
The King Chicken Theorems
(Graph theory in the barnyard)
September 24 Matthias Beck
.....SFSU

Making Change Like Frobenius
(Number theory and coin counting)
October 1 Matthias Beck
.....SFSU 		Making Change Like Frobenius II
(Generating functions)
October 8 Ravi Vakil
.....Stanford 		The Ubiquitous Proportion
(The golden mean in math and nature)
October 15

Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford

 Geometric Mad-Libs
(Investigations with points in the plane)
October 22 Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford

Those Three Little Dots
(Limits and infinity)
October 29 Deepak Tolani
.....Dreamworks Studios

Indispensable Curvature
(Mathematics and computer graphics)

 NPS
November 5 Tom Davis
.....Silicon Graphics 		Homogenous Coordinates
(Mathematics and computer graphics)
November 12 Tom Davis
.....Silicon Graphics 		Down the Graphics Pipeline
(Mathematics and computer graphics)		 SAP
November 19 Ravi Vakil
 .....Stanford 		The Mathematics of Doodling
(Differential geometry)
November 26 No math circle Thanksgiving break NPS
December 3 Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford 		Coming Full Circle
(Euclidean geometry and inversion)
December 10 Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford

A Beautiful Find
(Feuerbach's Theorem)
Fall ice cream social

 SAP

Winter 2007 session

Date Speaker Title and Topic
January 14 Tatiana Shubin
.....SJSU 		Pointing the Way
(Vector geometry)
January 21 Tatiana Shubin
.....SJSU 		Rotation Via Multiplication
(Complex numbers and geometry)
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January 28 Joshua Zucker
.....Castilleja School

Divide and Conquer
(Partitions of integers)
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February 4 Joshua Zucker
.....Castilleja School 		Close Encounters of the Stirling Kind
(Partitions of sets)
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February 11 Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford 		Weird Cosines
(Trig values on cheap calculators)
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February 18 Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent 		Two Cubes Are Better Than One
(Eisenstein integers) . . Notes
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February 25 Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford 		Partial Credit is Your Friend
(BAMO test preparation)
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March 4 Ted Alper
.....EPGY 		Those Three Little Digits
(AIME practice session)
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March 11 Federico Ardila
.....Colombian IMO coach 		BAMO awards ceremony
 Held at MSRI . . Directions . Flyer
NPS.
March 18 Brian Conrey
.....Amer Inst of Math 		2007 to the 2007 Power
(Congruences)
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March 25 Sam Vandervelde
.....Stanford 		The Best Partition of the Integers
(Complementary sequences)
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April 1 Brian Conrey
.....Amer Inst of Math 		Devious Divisors
(Multiplicative functions)
End of year pizza party
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