Spring 2025

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.