Math circle will continue in Spring 2024 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 Spring 2024.
- 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 Topic | Elementary Group Topic | Intermediate Group Topic | Advanced Group Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat., Jan 20 | Random Math Circle (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Breaking Down Numbers (Dilip Barman) | Two is the Best Number, Part 1 (Linda Green) | Invariants (Linda Green) | Conditional Probability and Bayes’ Theorem (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sat., Jan 27 | ||||
| Math Circle will not meet. | ||||
| Sat., Feb 3 | Skewed RNGs for Fair Games (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Partitions (Dilip Barman) | Two is the Best Number, Part 2 (Linda Green) | Combinatorics, Part 1 (Linda Green) | Mathematical Paradoxes (Will Davis and David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Feb 10 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Feb 17 | Polylinks: Circles and Triangles IN SPACE (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Counting Salad Bar Choices (Dilip Barman) | Two is the Best Number, Part 3 (Linda Green) | Combinatorics, Part 2 (Linda Green) | P-adic Numbers (David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Feb 24 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Mar 2 | Pi is Calculus! (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Triangular Numbers and the Handshake Problem (Dilip Barman) | Graphs and the Number 2 (Linda Green) | Mathematical Induction (Linda Green) | An Introduction to p-adic Numbers, Part 2(Will Davis and David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Mar 9 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Mar 16 | Mathemalchemy (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Happy Pi Day! (Dilip Barman) | Logic Puzzles (Dorian Varney and Aynsley Szczesniak) | Mad Veterinarian Puzzles (Dorian Varney and Aynsley Szczesniak) | Mass Point Geometry, Part 1 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Mar 23 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Mar 30 | This Knot Is Not a Knot (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Circle Constructions (Dilip Barman) | Combinatorics, Part 1(Linda Green) | Tiling and Induction (Linda Green) | Mass Point Geometry, Part 2 (Will Davis and David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Apr 6 | SCIENCE EXPO TODAY ON UNC CAMPUS! Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Apr 13 | Johnson Solids, Nets, and Kirigami (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Perfect Rulers: How to Measure (Dilip Barman) | Combinatorics, Part 2 (Linda Green) | Tiling and Coloring (Linda Green) | Graph Algorithms and the Traveling Salesman (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sat., Apr 20 | .Math Circle will not meet | |||
| Sat., Apr 27 | Math Lands and Math Ambassadors: Year-End Celebration (Maria Drojkova and Dmitri Droujkov) The Game of Nim (Dilip Barman) | Combinatorics, Part 3 (Linda Green) | Grid Power and Iterative Paper Folding (Linda Green) | Egyption Fractions (Matt Crawford) |
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Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.