Fall 2009

NOTE: Starting this Fall, the Stanford Math Circle begins meeting on Saturday afternoons, from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. Also, on 10 October and 24 October our usual meeting room, 380C in the basement of Sloan Hall, will be unavailable, so we will meet instead in room 381U, on the first floor of Sloan Hall, immediately opposite the mathematics department reception desk.

Date	Speaker	Title/Topic	Notes
26 September	Laurens Gunnarsen	Fermat’s Last Theorem, Part I	N/A
3 October	SESSION CANCELED		N/A
10 October	Joshua Zucker	Coins in Twoland, Part I	N/A
17 October	Joshua Zucker	Coins in Twoland, Part II	N/A
24 October	Laurens Gunnarsen	Fermat’s Last Theorem, Part II	N/A
31 October	Laurens Gunnarsen	Fermat’s Last Theorem, Part III	N/A
7 November	Melanie Wood	Euler's formula and the Euler characteristic	N/A
14 November	Brian Conrad	Quaternions: where do they come from, and what are they good for?	N/A
21 November	Marc Roth	Bowling Pin Puzzles	N/A
28 November	THANKSGIVING BREAK	No Math Circle	N/A
5 December	Laurens Gunnarsen	The Umbral Calculus	N/A
12 December	SESSION CANCELED		N/A
19 December	SESSION CANCELED		N/A

Old schedules and handouts:

		2005 fall
2006 winter		2006 fall
2007 winter		2007 fall
2008 winter		2008 fall
2009 winter	2009 summer	2009 fall