- 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. Room changes are noted below.
This schedule is tentative and may be changed.
Sunday, May 19Julia Robinson Math Festival.
| Date | Beginners Group Topic | Elementary Group Topic | Intermediate Group Topic | Advanced Group Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, Jan 12
Basketball Saturday |
Tiling | The Game of Criss Cross | Euler Characteristic | The Game of Nim | |
| Saturday, Jan 19 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, Jan 26 | Math Auction | Alien Arithmetic, Part 1 | Free the Clones | Multiplicative Number Theoretic Functions, Part 1 | |
| Saturday, Feb 2 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, Feb 9
Basketball Saturday |
Runaway Digits | Alien Arithmetic, Part 2 | Compositions | Multiplicative Number Theoretic Functions, Part 2 | |
| Saturday, Feb 16 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, Feb 23
Basketball Saturday |
Encrypted Problems | Alien Arithmetic, Part 3 | Knots and Knot Coloring | Derangements | |
| Saturday, March 2 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, March 9
Basketball Saturday |
Math Auction 2 | Math Auction | Dr. B’s favorite contest math problems | The Taming of Infinity (AoPS guest speaker Katie Greene) | |
| Saturday, March 16 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, March 23 | Combinatorics, Part 1 | Math Games, Part1 | Fourth Dimension | Alternative Number Systems (complex, quaternions, octonions) | |
| Saturday, March 30 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, April 2 | Math Circle will not meet – Science Expo on campus today from 11:00 – 4:00 | ||||
| Saturday, April 13 | Combinatorics, Part 2 | Math Games, Part 2 | Pascal’s Triangle |
Pigeonhole Principle
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| Saturday, April 20 | Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Saturday, April 27 | Math Auction | Math Games, Part 2, Continued | Knowledge about Knowledge | MERLIN magic squares and generalizations | |
| Sunday, May 19
1:00 – 4:00 |
Julia Robinson Math Festival | ||||
Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.
