- The Beginners Group and the Elementary Group meet on Saturdays from 9:00 – 10:00.
- The Intermediate Group and the Advanced Group meet on Saturdays from 10:30 – 12:00.
- We normally meet in Phillips Hall rooms 206 and 208, or in Phillips 224 and 228. Room changes are noted below.
This schedule is tentative and may be changed.
| Date | Beginners Group Topic | Elementary Group Topic | Intermediate Group Topic | Advanced Group Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, Jan 13 | Truth / Lie Problems | Logic Puzzles | Geometry Puzzles | Spheres and Planar Graphs | |
| Saturday, Jan 21 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, Jan 27 | Knights and Knaves | Reflection Does It! Part 1 | Problems about Integers, Part 1 | Guarding An Art Gallery | |
| Saturday, Feb 3 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, Feb 10 | Knights and Knaves Cyphers | Reflection Does It, Part 2 | Problems about Integers, Part 2 | ||
| Saturday, Feb 17 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, Feb 24
(Phillips 224 and 228) |
Multiplication Puzzles
(room change: Phillips 224) |
Origami
(room change: Phillips 228) |
Origami
(room change: Phillips 224, start at 10:45) |
Curvature and the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
(room change: Phillips 228, start at 10:45) |
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| Saturday, March 3 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, March 10
(meet in Peabody 203 and 204) |
Combinatorics
(room change: Peabody 203) |
Two Is Better Than Infinity, Part 1
(room change: Peabody 204) |
Weighing Puzzles
(room change: Peabody 203) |
Pell’s Equation
(room change: Peabody 204) |
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| Saturday, March 17 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, March 24
(Phillips 224 and 228) |
Card Problems (please bring deck of cards)
(room change: Phillips 224) |
Two Is the Best Number, Part 2
(room change: Phillips 228) |
Mathematical Induction
(room change: Phillips 224) |
Euler Characteristic and Planar Graphs
(room change: Phillips 228) |
|
| Saturday, March 31 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, April 7 | Magic Circles | Two Is the Best Number, Part 3 | Construct This! |
Continued Fractions |
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| Saturday, April 14 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, April 21
(Phillips 224 and 228) |
Chess Problems
(room change: Phillips 224) |
The Number 2 and Paths in Graphs
(room change: Phillips 228) |
Math Auction
(room change: Phillips 224) |
Finding structure in chaos, a.k.a. Ramsey numbers (room change: Phillips 228) |
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| Saturday, Apr 28 Math Circle will not meet | |||||
| Sunday, May 6 | Julia Robinson Math Festival 1:00 – 4:00 in the Carolina Union Great Hall | ||||
Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.
Chapel Hill Math Circle 