Schedule
2008 - 2009
The following schedule shows who will be leading the circle on a given day.
| Date | Leader | Topic | Handouts |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 10 | Zvezdelina Stankova | Classical Geometry | |
| September 17 | Ivan Matic | Combinatorics on the Chessboard | |
| September 26 | BAMA at SCU: Bernd Sturmfels | Tropical Mathematics | |
| October 01 | Alon Amit | Point Sets With Few Distances | |
| October 08 | Matt Beck | Graph Coloring | |
| October 15 | Alon Amit | Avoiding Infinity and a Curious Coin Game | |
| October 22 | BAMA at SJSU: Brian Conrad | Rational Right Triangles | |
| October 29 | Tom Davis | Conway's Rational Tangles | |
| November 05 | Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin, and guests | A Russian-Style Math Circle | probs |
| November 12 | Tom Rike | Sums and Bernoulli Numbers | |
| November 19 | David Farmer | Circle Packing | |
| November 26 | Break | Thanksgiving Break | |
| December 03 | BAMA at SCU: Rick Scott | Counting Elements in Reflection Groups | |
| December 10 | David Farmer | Factorials | |
| December 17 | Tom Davis | Zome Geometry | |
| 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? | |
| January 22 | BAMA at SJSU: Maria Klawe | Winning Strategies for the PSP Game Lumines | |
| January 28 | Tom Davis | Geodesic Domes | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| April 01 | Joshua Zucker | April Fools and other mathematical logic puzzles | |
| 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 | |
| May 06 | TBD | Pizza and Puzzles Party! |
Note:
- Some topics have not yet been decided, hence the "TBD" = "To Be Determined".
- The dark red dates are BAMA talks so there will be no SJMC meeting.
- SJMC meetings take place regularly on Wednesdays, in MH-323 at SJSU, from 7:00PM to 9:00PM, see directions.
- If you'd like to see your name on this schedule page, as a leader of a circle session, contact us!
- Handouts of past meetings will be posted as we receive them. If you have past handouts that you don't see here, please let us know.
- Read more about Russian-style circles.