Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic
TUESDAY March 29 Nueva School Community Math Night 6:30-8:30 pm	Dr. Ruth Parker Mathematics Education Collaborative	Mathematics and Your Child's Future: The Basics and Beyond
Thursday March 31	Alon Amit Facebook	The Prouhet-Thue-Morse Sequence
Thursday April 7	Susan Holmes Stanford University	Probability by Surprise
Thursday April 14	Dimitri Zvonkine Stanford University	Mathematical Games for Two Players
WEDNESDAY April 20 7:30 pm Stanford University Cubberley Auditorium	Manjul Bhargava Princeton/MSRI	Stanford University Department of Mathematics deLeeuw Lecture Linguistics, Poetry, and Mathematics
Thursday April 21	Dimitri Zvonkine Stanford University	Voting Schemes: Does Mathematics Allow Democracy?
Thursday April 28	David Auckly MSRI	Math Rocks
SUNDAY May 1	Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival Stanford University	2011 Stanford Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
Thursday May 5	Rick Sommer Stanford University EPGY	Sphere Packing and Error-Correcting Codes
SATURDAY May 7	Stanford University Mackenzie Room, Huang Engineering Center (3rd floor)	Stanford University Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Open Day This event is for high school students interested in computational mathematics and mathematical engineering.
Thursday May 12	Wojciech Wieczorek Stanford University	Nine-point circle
Thursday May 19	Zvezdelina Stankova Berkeley Math Circle Directoe Mills College	Plane Geometey and More BAMO Brilliancy Solutions
Thursday May 26	Stan Isaacs	MIMPSY Puzzles Mathematically Interesting Mechanical Puzzles Selected for Youth