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Stanford Math Circle

Winter 2008

Date Speaker Title/Topic Notes
6 January Linda Burks The game of SET: asking good questions
13 January Leo Goldmakher Splitting the Circle
20 January Joshua Zucker Parity, Invariants, and Games
27 January Keith Devlin The mathematics of everyday language
3 February Douglas Osheroff How advances in science are made
10 February Laurens Gunnarsen Pythagorean Poker: A Card Game for Number Theorists
17 February WINTER BREAK No Math Circle
24 February WINTER BREAK No Math Circle
2 March Ralph Cohen Spheres, braids, and links
16 March Tatiana Shubin Mathematical games Notes
23 March Matthew Kahle Symmetry: its reflections in mathematics and art
30 March Paul Zeitz Random Walks Notes
6 April Tatiana Shubin Mathematical games II (and end-of-term pizza party)