Math circle will continue in Spring 2025 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.
- 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 18 | Hyperbolic Ribbon Loops (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and The Frobenius Coin Problem: What Amounts you can pay with Coins (Dilip Barman) | Fold the Strip (Linda Green) | Extending Geometry Problems [1] (Scott Hallyburton) | An Introduction to Continued Fractions, Part 1 (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sat., Jan 25 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Feb 1 | Even More Hyperbolic! (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Big Numbers (Dilip Barman) | Hexaflexagons (Linda Green) | Extending Geometry Problems [2] (Scott Hallyburton) | An Introduction to Continued Fractions, Part 2 (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sat., Feb 8 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Feb 15 | Heart-Shaped Math: Valentine’s Day at the Math Circle (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Spaghetti and Pizza Numbers Part I (Dilip Barman) | Modular Arithmetic, Part 1 (Linda Green) | Extending Geometry Problems [3](Josh Mott) | Pick’s Theorem (Will Davis and David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Feb 22 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Mar 1 | Happy Pi Day – Part 1 (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Spaghetti and Pizza Numbers Part II (Dilip Barman) | Modular Arithmetic, Part 2 (Victoria Yan and Dorian Varney) | Different Types of Sameness in Math (Corbin Balitactac) | Inversive Geometry (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sat., Mar 8 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Mar 15 | Happy Pi Day – Part 2 (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Pi Day – Playing with Circles (Dilip Barman) |
Secret Codes (Victoria Yan and Linda Green) |
Four Points, Two Distances (Linda Green) | Vieta’s Formulas and Symmetric Polynomials (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sat., Mar 22 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Mar 29 | #MathArtMarch (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Handshakes and Intersecting Circles (Dilip Barman) | Square of Squares (Linda Green) | Taxicab Geometry (Reiyah Jacobs) | Game Theory and Nash Equilibria (Will Davis and David Yavenditti) |
| Sat., Apr 5 | SCIENCE EXPO TODAY ON UNC CAMPUS! Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sat., Apr 12 | Edge-Release Structures (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Making and Spending Money (Dilip Barman) | Magic Squares (Victoria Yan) | The mathematics of Set (Scott Hallyburton) | Topology of Surfaces and the Euler Characteristic (Terence Carey) |
| Sat., Apr 19 | Math Circle will not meet | |||
| Sat., Apr 26 | Math Maker Party (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) and Square Numbers (Dilip Barman) | Alien Arithmetic (Linda Green) | Set Part II (Scott Hallyburton) | The Thue-Morse Sequence (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
Many of the problems we choose come from books in the MSRI-AMS Mathematical Circles Library.