Spring 2019

• 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
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.