| Date |
Speaker |
Title/Topic |
Notes |
| April 4 |
Dana Paquin Director, Stanford Math Circle |
Ford Circles, Part 1 |
Warm-Up Problems Pictures of Ford Circles Notes: Farey Sequences and Ford Circles Problem Set: Farey Sequences and Ford Circles |
| April 11 |
Matthias Beck, SFSU Co-Director, SFSU Math Circle |
Points, Lines, Planes, and Hyperplanes |
Warm-Up Problems Hints for Warm-Up Problems |
| April 18 |
Rick Sommer, Stanford University |
Combinatorial Game Theory |
Warm-Up Problems |
| April 25 |
Tom Davis, Silicon Graphics (co-founder) Director, SJSU Math Circle |
Iterated Functions |
Warm-Up Problems Hints for Warm-Up Problems Notes: Iterated Functions |
May 2 |
No SMC meeting: Julia Robinson Math Festival |
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May 9 |
Dana Paquin Director, Stanford Math Circle |
Geometric Numbers |
Geometric Numbers Problems Notes: Square-Triangular Numbers, Pell Equations, and Continued Fractions Problem Set |
May 16 |
Tatiana Shubin, SJSU Director, SJSU Math Circle |
Geometric Combinatorics |
Warm-Up Puzzles/Problems Notes: Geometric Combinatorics |
May 23 |
Zvezdelina Stankova, Mills College Director, Berkeley Math Circle |
Attacking Plane Geometry: With Bare Hands or With Mathematical Armor? Geometry at the Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad |
Notes: Attacking Plane Geometry |
May 30 |
Dana Paquin Director, Stanford Math Circle |
Olympiad-Style Problem Solving using Invariants and Monovariants |
Problem Set Fourteen Proofs of a Result About Tiling a Rectangle (see Problem 25) |
June 6 |
Joshua Zucker |
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