Math Circle Schedule

 

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Starting in Fall 2019, the BUMC will take place weekly at Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School and the Met High School.  Interested students from any school are encouraged to email Alex Walsh to receive more details about how they can participate.

 

Spring 2019 - 3:30-5:30pm

DATE

INSTRUCTOR

TOPIC/TITLE

3/7/19

Alexandra  Walsh

"Sums of Perfect Squares"

4/4/19

Professor Thomas Goodwillie

"Fibonacci Numbers"

5/2/19

Sam Freedman

"Towers of Hanoi"

 

 

 

 

 

                  Spring 2018 - 3:30-5:00pm

DATE

INSTRUCTOR

TOPIC/TITLE

2/26/18

Laura Walton

Probability + Monty Hall

3/5/18

Richard Schwartz

Pascal's Triangle and Graphs

3/12/18

Taro Shima

Counting, Pascal's Triangle, and Franctals

3/19/18

Alex Walsh

Introduction to Logic

3/26/18

 

BROWN SPRING BREAK

4/2/18

Maria Nastasescu

Number Theory

4/9/18

Tarik Aougab

Symmetry Games

4/16/18

 

PROVIDENCE SCHOOLS SPRING BREAK

4/23/18

Dori Bejleri

The Game Set

4/30/18

Thomas Silverman

Arithmetic Dymanics

5/7/18

Brian Freidin

Conway's Rational Tangles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fall 2017

DATE

INSTRUCTOR

TOPIC/TITLE

9/19/17

Alexandra Walsh

Basic Number Theory

9/26/17

Alexandra Walsh

Logic and Negation

10/3/17

Thomas Goodwillie

Euler Characteristic

10/10/17

Laura Walton

Graph Planarity/The Utility Problem

10/17/17

Brian Freidin

Hamming Codes

11/7/17

Joseph Silverman

Number Shapes-An Excursion in Number Theory and Geometry

11/14/17

Arias Hathaway

Dynamical Systems

11/21/17

Dori Bejleri

Counting and the Game SET

12/5/17

Tarik Aougab

Problem-solving