Season
Fall 2024
Math circle will resume on August 31, 2024 on UNC campus, roughly every other Saturday, with a few 3 week gaps. Details about classes will be sent out in google group emails. The schedule below is tentative and may be changed.
Schedule
| Date | Mobius Noodles and Beginners Group Topics | Elementary | Intermediate | Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | Voronoi Diagrams (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Secret Codes (Linda Green) | Reflection Does It! Part1 (Linda Green) | Rational Tangles (Scott Hallyburton) | Chinese Remainder Theorem (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sep 7 football Saturday | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Sep 14 football Saturday | Math Circle will not meet. Come try our math activities at BugFest in Raleigh. | |||
| Sep 21 football Saturday | Fractal Flight (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Estimating the World Around Us (Dilip Barman) | Reflection Does It! Part2 (Linda Green) | Thinking about knots (Scott Hallyburton) | The Symmetric Group and Slide Puzzles (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Sep 28 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Oct 5 football Saturday | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Oct 12 football Saturday | Funville Adventures, Functions, and Functionals (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Estimating the World Around Us, Part 2 (Dilip Barman) | Reflection Does It! Part 3 (Linda Green) | Thinking harder about knots (Josh Mott) | The Golden Ratio (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Oct 19 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Oct 26 | Mini Festival: Favorite Games and Puzzles (Dmitri Droujkov and Math Friends) Mathematics of Voting (Dilip Barman) | Relatively Prime Stars (Linda Green) | Knot invariants (Scott Hallyburton) | Pythagorean Triples (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Nov 2 | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Nov 9 | Mandalas and Polar Coordinates (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) “Bring on the Cranberries”: Mathematical Puzzles and Games of Food (Dilip Barman) | Pouring Water (Linda Green) | Graph Theory (Scott Hallyburton) | Ptolemy’s Theorem (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Nov 16 football Saturday | Math Circle will not meet. | |||
| Nov 23 | Happy Fibonacci Day! (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Fibonacci / Pingala Day (Dilip Barman) | Divisibility Tricks (Linda Green) | More Graph Theory (Scott Hallyburton) | Sums of Squares (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |
| Nov 30 football Saturday | Math Circle will not meet. Happy Thanksgiving! | |||
| Dec 7 | Holiday Crafts and Modeling Surfaces (Maria Droujkova and Dmitri Droujkov) Analyzing Games and Playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe (Dilip Barman) | Divisibility Tricks Part 2 (Linda Green) | More Adventures in Flatland (Scott Hallyburton) | Mathematical Games (David Yavenditti and Will Davis) |