Fall 2010

Meeting Times: Thursdays 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Location: Stanford University Department of Mathematics, Building 380 Room 380-C

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
Thursday September 30	Ravi Vakil Stanford University	The Mathematics of Doodling
WEDNESDAY October 6 Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University	Terence Tao UCLA	The Cosmic Distance Ladder
Thursday October 7	Matthias Beck San Francisco State University	Parking Functions
Thursday October 14 Santa Clara University 7:30 pm	BAMA (Bay Area Mathematical Adventures) Michael Starbird University of Texas at Austin	Geometric Gems
TUESDAY October 19 Building 300, Room 300 Note the changed location!	Alon Amit Facebook	Probability Paradoxes
Thursday October 21 Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200 6:00-9:00 pm		GardnerFest--Festival of the Mind
Thursday October 28	Alon Amit Facebook	Calculating by Cheating
Thursday November 4	Dana Paquin Director, Stanford Math Circle	AMC Problem Solving Session
Wednesday November 10 San Jose State University Engineering Auditorium, Room 189 7:30 pm	BAMA (Bay Area Mathematical Adventures) Francis Edward Su Harvey Mudd College	Voting in Agreeable Societies
Thursday November 11 Bring scissors and tape!	Ted Courant Bentley School	Conic sections and Kepler's laws: An elementary approach, Part I
Thursday November 18	Ted Courant Bentley School	Conic sections and Kepler's laws: An elementary approach, Part II
Thursday November 25	No Math Circle--Thanksgiving
Thursday December 2	David Auckly MSRI
Wednesday December 15 Santa Clara University 7:30 pm	BAMA (Bay Area Mathematical Adventures) Roger Nelsen Professor Emeritus, Lewis and Clark College	Math Icons: An Exploration of Images