Stanford Math Circle

Speakers, topics, and handouts for the 2006-2007 Stanford Math Circle sessions appear in the table below. Practice problems for each talk can be downloaded by clicking the pencil icon in the last column. Also follow the links for additional material.
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Fall 2006 Session

Date	Speaker	Title and Topic
September 17	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	The King Chicken Theorems (Graph theory in the barnyard)
September 24	Matthias Beck .....SFSU	Making Change Like Frobenius (Number theory and coin counting)
October 1	Matthias Beck .....SFSU	Making Change Like Frobenius II (Generating functions)
October 8	Ravi Vakil .....Stanford	The Ubiquitous Proportion (The golden mean in math and nature)
October 15	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	Geometric Mad-Libs (Investigations with points in the plane)
October 22	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	Those Three Little Dots (Limits and infinity)
October 29	Deepak Tolani .....Dreamworks Studios	Indispensable Curvature (Mathematics and computer graphics)	NPS
November 5	Tom Davis .....Silicon Graphics	Homogenous Coordinates (Mathematics and computer graphics)
November 12	Tom Davis .....Silicon Graphics	Down the Graphics Pipeline (Mathematics and computer graphics)	SAP
November 19	Ravi Vakil .....Stanford	The Mathematics of Doodling (Differential geometry)
November 26	No math circle	Thanksgiving break	NPS
December 3	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	Coming Full Circle (Euclidean geometry and inversion)
December 10	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	A Beautiful Find (Feuerbach's Theorem) Fall ice cream social	SAP

Winter 2007 session

Date	Speaker	Title and Topic
January 14	Tatiana Shubin .....SJSU	Pointing the Way (Vector geometry)
January 21	Tatiana Shubin .....SJSU	Rotation Via Multiplication (Complex numbers and geometry)	.
January 28	Joshua Zucker .....Castilleja School	Divide and Conquer (Partitions of integers)	.
February 4	Joshua Zucker .....Castilleja School	Close Encounters of the Stirling Kind (Partitions of sets)	.
February 11	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	Weird Cosines (Trig values on cheap calculators)	.
February 18	Laurens Gunnarsen .....Independent	Two Cubes Are Better Than One (Eisenstein integers) . . Notes	.
February 25	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	Partial Credit is Your Friend (BAMO test preparation)	.
March 4	Ted Alper .....EPGY	Those Three Little Digits (AIME practice session)	.
March 11	Federico Ardila .....Colombian IMO coach	BAMO awards ceremony Held at MSRI . . Directions . Flyer	NPS.
March 18	Brian Conrey .....Amer Inst of Math	2007 to the 2007 Power (Congruences)	.
March 25	Sam Vandervelde .....Stanford	The Best Partition of the Integers (Complementary sequences)	.
April 1	Brian Conrey .....Amer Inst of Math	Devious Divisors (Multiplicative functions) End of year pizza party	.