Stanford Math Circle

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Stanford Math Circle

Spring 2012

Time: Thursdays 6:00 to 8:00 pm (unless otherwise marked)

Location: Stanford University Department of Mathematics, Building 380 Room 380-X

(additional events of interest to the community may be added throughout the quarter)

Date Speaker Title/Topic
Thursday

April 5

Linda Green

Dominican U/Marin Math Circle

"The Watermelon Problem: Slicing and Dicing with Lines and Planes"
Thursday

April 12

Tom Davis

San Jose Math Circle

Hackenbush
Wednesday

April 11

7:30 PM

Peter Winkley

Dartmouth

Puzzles That S-t-r-e-t-c-h Your Intuition

NOTE: not at Stanford -- this is a Bay Area

Mathematical Adventure at San Jose State

Thursday

April 19

Tatiana Shubin

SJSU/San Jose Math Circle

"Have Colors - Will Paint."
Thursday

April 26

Vlad Rutenberg Algorithms for finding shortest paths

HOMEWORK

Thursday

May 3

Tatiana Shubin

SJSU/San Jose Math Circle

"Have Colors - Will Paint."
Thursday

May 10

Maksim Maydanskiy

Stanford

Visual Topology
Thursday

May 17

Chris Overton

Complex Numbers
Thursday

May 24

Zvezdalina Stankova

Mills College/Berkeley Math Circle

TBA
Thursday

May 31

Dimitri Zvonkine Invariants: finding the thing that does not change
Thursday

June 7

Alon Amit Ramsey numbers and random graphs