Speakers, topics, and handouts for the 2006-2007 Stanford Math Circle sessions appear in the table below. 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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Date
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Speaker
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Title and Topic
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work sheet
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| September 16 |
Matthias Beck
.....SFSU
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Polyhedra I: polygons, convex hulls, and all kinds of faces
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| September 23 |
Matthias Beck
.....SFSU
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Polyhedra II: face numbers, Euler's formula, and regular polytopes
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| September 30 |
Michael Kleber
.....Google
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What are the fair polyhedral dice? How about in 4 dimensions?
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| October 7 |
Zvezdelina Stankova
.....Berkeley / Mills College
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Full stop due to monovariants,
part I (note)
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| October 14 |
Zvezdelina Stankova
.....Berkeley / Mills College
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Advanced monovariants in action,
part II |
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| October 21 |
Jim Milgram
.....Stanford
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The mathematics of robots
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| October 28 |
Sam Payne
.....Stanford
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Bidding games |
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| November 4 |
Rick Sommer
.....Stanford EPGY
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Combinatorial Game Theory |
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| November 11 |
Kannan Soundararajan
.....Stanford
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Prime numbers |
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| November 18 |
Ravi Vakil
.....Stanford
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Pythagorean triples |
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| November 25 |
Thanksgiving break |
--- no math circle --- |
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| December 2 |
Tom Davis
.....Silicon Graphics
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Rubik's cube as an introduction to group theory
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| December 9 |
Paul Mennen
.....Independent
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Ramblings: physics problems, irrationals, GPS, & musical spectra
Party: ice cream a-plenty!
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Date
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Speaker
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Title and Topic
|
work sheet
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| January 6 |
Linda Burks
.....Independent
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The game of SET:
asking good questions |
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| January 13 |
Leo Goldmakher
.....Stanford
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Splitting the Circle |
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| January 20 |
Joshua Zucker
.....Castilleja School
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Parity, Invariants, and Games |
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| January 27 |
Keith Devlin
.....Stanford
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The mathematics of
everyday language
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| February 3 |
Douglas Osheroff
.....Stanford
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How advances in science are made |
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| February 10 |
Laurens Gunnarsen
.....Independent
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Pythagorean Poker: A Card Game for Number Theorists |
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| February 17 |
Winter break |
--- no math circle --- |
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| February 24 |
Winter break |
--- no math circle --- |
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| March 2 |
Ralph Cohen
.....Stanford
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Spheres, braids, and links
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| March 9 |
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Canceled in favor of hearing John Conway at MSRI (BAMO Awards Ceremony - 11am in Berkeley) |
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| March 16 |
Tatiana Shubin
.....SJSU
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Mathematical games |
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| March 23 |
Matthew Kahle
.....Stanford
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Symmetry: its reflections in mathematics and art |
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| March 30 |
Paul Zeitz
.....Univ. of San Francisco
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Random Walks
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| April 6 |
Tatiana Shubin
.....SJSU
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Mathematical games II
End of year pizza party!
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