Fall 2023

Math circle will resume on September 23,  2023 on UNC campus, on alternating Saturdays.

  • The Mobius Noodles Group will meet from 10:30 – 11:30 in Phillips 206 or outside in front of Phillips.
  • There will be two Beginners Groups this Fall 2023.
    • Beginners Group 9 will meet from 9:00 – 10:00 in Phillips 206 or outside in front of Phillips.
    • Beginners Group 10:30 will meet from 10:30 – 11:30 in Phillips 208 or outside in front of Phillips.
  • The Elementary Group will meet from 9:00 – 10:00 in Phillips 208.
  • The Intermediate Group will meet from 10:30 – 12:00 in Phillips 224
  • The Advanced Group will meet from 10:30 – 12:00 in  Phillips 220.
  • Details about classes will be sent out in google group emails.

This schedule is tentative and may be changed.

Date Mobius Noodles and Beginners Group Topics Elementary Group Topic Intermediate Group Topic Advanced Group Topic
Sat., Sep 23 Mathematical Story Telling 9:00 version (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov)   and Mathematical Story Telling 10:30 version  (Dilip Barman) Weighing Puzzles (Linda Green) Weighing Puzzles (Linda Green) Irrational Numbers (David Yavenditti and Will Davis)
Sat., Sept 30 Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Oct 7(football Saturday) Mirror Books and Infinity Rooms(Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Shapes and Diagonals  (Dilip Barman) Euclid’s Game, Part 1 (Linda Green) Remainders and Divisibility(Linda Green) Euclidean Algorithm (David Yavenditti)
Sat., Oct 14(football Saturday) Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Oct 21(football Saturday) Infinite Loops and Infinite Series (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Diagonals (Dilip Barman) Euclids Game Part 2 (Linda Green) Modular Arithmetic(Linda Green) Generating Functions Part 1 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Oct 28 Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Nov 4(football Saturday) Pokemon vs Mathmon Part 1 (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Diagonals and Pascal’s Triangle (Dilip Barman) Tiling with Polygons (Linda Green) Infinity(Linda Green) Generating Functions, Part 2 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Nov 11 Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Nov 18 Fibonacci Day 11/23 (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Patterns in Diagonals and Angles (Dilip Barman) Envelope Tilings (Linda Green) Infinite Series (Linda Green) Constructible Points and Constructible Numbers, Part 1 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Nov 25 Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Dec 2 Dihedral Groups and Snowflakes (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Fun with Angles (Dilip Barman) Cyclic Numbers (Linda Green) Braid Puzzles (Linda Green) Constructible Points and Numbers Part 2 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti)
Sat., Dec 9 Math Circle will not meet.
Sat., Dec 16 Shapes of Revolution for Winter Holidays (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Money: Making Change (Dilip Barman) Rep-tiles and Aperiodic Tiles (Linda Green) Groups of Symmetry (Scott Hallyburton) Polynomial Interpolation and Error-Correction Codes (David Yavenditti and Will Davis)
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Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.