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We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year.  <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:
We have a weekly meeting, <b>Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library</b>, during the school year.  <b>New students are welcome at any point! </b> There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:


  [https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0qPme0LEpUi4kZf '''Math Circle Registration Form''']
  [https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e9WdAs2SXNurWFD '''Math Circle Registration Form''']


All of you information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle.  
All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle.  


If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).
If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).
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==Contact the organizers==
==Contact the organizers==
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of three professors and three graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!
The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the [http://www.math.wisc.edu Department of Mathematics] at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the '''organizers''' [mailto:mathcircleorganizers@lists.wisc.edu here]. We are always interested in feedback!
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File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]
File:de.jpg|[https://www.math.wisc.edu/~derman/ Prof. Daniel Erman]
File:pmwood.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~pmwood/ Prof. Phillip Matchett Wood]
File:Betsy.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~stovall/ Prof. Betsy Stovall]
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File:juliettebruce.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~juliettebruce/ Juliette Bruce]
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]
File:Ee.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~evaelduque/ Eva Elduque]
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Jullian]
File:mrjulian.jpg|[http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mrjulian/ Ryan Julian]
 
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Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.
Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.


=Meetings for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016=
=Meetings for Fall 2018=


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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2015
! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2018
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic
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| September 14, 2015 || David Sondak || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_14_2015 How to SEE Sound]
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| September 21, 2015 || Uri Andrews|| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_21_2015  Guarding Mona Lisa]
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| September 28, 2015 || Eva Elduque|| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_28_2015  Pick's Theorem]
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| October 5, 2015 || Jessica Lin|| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_5_2015 The Math of Sudoku]
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| October 12, 2015 || Ryan Julian || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_12_2015 Eight Dimensional Oranges]
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| October 19, 2015 || <s>Keith Rush</s> || CANCELLED
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| October 26, 2015 || Megan Maguire || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_26_2015 Aperiodic tilings: Beyond your parents' bathroom floor]
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| November 2, 2015 || Marko Budisic|| [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_2_2015 Mathematics of GPS satellites]
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| November 9, 2015 || Tess Anderson || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_9_2015  Gold Coins and Goats]
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| November 16, 2015 || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_16_2015 To Infinity And Beyond?]
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| November 23, 2015 || Tullia Dymarz (Last meeting of fall) || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#November_23_2015 TBA]
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! colspan="3" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2016
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! Date !! Speaker !! Topic
! Date !! Speaker !! Topic
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| February 1, 2016 || Will Mitchell || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_1_2016 Are these networks the same?]
| September 17, 2018 || Sun Woo Park || Why are Donuts and Cream Puffs "different"?
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| February 8, 2016 || Lalit Jain || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_8_2016  Large amounts of small money]
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| February 15, 2016 || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_15_2016  What is the biggest number?]
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| February 22, 2016 || Soumya Sankar || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_22_2016 What would you do if you had only nickels and dimes? ]
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| February 29, 2016 || Alexandra (Sashka) Kjuchukova || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_29_2016 How big is your infinity?]
| September 24, 2018 || Ben Bruce || Three Cottages Problem
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| March 7, 2016 || Solly Parenti || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_7_2016 101-meter Dash]
| October 1, 2018 || Kit Newton || How to calculate Pi if all you can do is throw things
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| March 14, 2016 || Chiara Franceschini || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_14_2016 PRIME NUMBERS: Why (not only) mathematician care about them?]
| October 8, 2018 || Connor Simpson || TBD
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| March 21, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) ||  
| October 15, 2018 || Jean-Luc Thiffeault || TBD
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| March 28, 2016 || No Meeting (Spring Break) ||  
| October 22, 2018 || Patrick Nicodemus || Formal Systems in Computer Science and Logic
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| April 4, 2016 || Becky Eastham || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_4_2016 Become a Mastermind at Codebreaking and Logic Puzzles!]  
| October 29, 2018 || Moisés Herradón Cueto || Order and chaos in population sizes ([http://www.math.wisc.edu/~moises/Math_Circle_Talk.html try it yourself!])
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| April 11, 2016 || Micky Soule Steinberg || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_11_2016 Groups: An Introduction]
| November 5, 2018 || Christian Geske || Josephus Problem
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| April 18, 2016 || Alisha Zachariah  || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_18_2016 The Power Tower]
| November 12, 2018 || Rachel Davis || TBD
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| April 25, 2016 || Betsy Stovall || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_25_2016 N to N+1.  The art of induction. ]
| November 19, 2018 || Uri Andrews || King Chicken
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| May 2, 2016 || Jen Beichman <span style="color:red">Special Location: 9th Floor Van Vleck Hall</span> || [[#Jen Beichman| TBA]]
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=High School Meetings=
=Off-Site Meetings=
 
We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days.  If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!


We are experimenting with holding some Math Circle meetings directly at local high schools.  Our schedule for the fall is below.  If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!


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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2015
! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Fall 2017
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info
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| September 28, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#September_28_2015_2 How to Catch a (data) thief] ||
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| October 19, 2015 || 2:45pm East High || Carolyn Abbott || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#October_19_2015 Donuts and Coffee Cups]  ||
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! colspan="5" style="background: #e8b2b2;" align="center" | Spring 2016
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! Date !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic !! Link for more info
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| February 22, 2016 || 2:45pm Memorial High || Jordan Ellenberg || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#February_22_2016 The Game of Set] ||
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| March 31, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || Daniel Erman || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#March_31_2016 How to Catch a (Data) Thief]  ||
! Date !! Time !! Location !! Speaker !! Topic
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| April 18, 2016 || 2:45pm Memorial High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_18_2016_2 To Infinity and Beyond] ||
| October 29th || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || TBD || TBD
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| April 21, 2016 || 2:45pm West High || DJ Bruce || [https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts#April_21_2016 Can you untie a know with a knot?] ||
| December 3rd || 2:45pm|| East High School - Madison, WI || TBD || TBD
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== Archived Abstracts ==
== Archived Abstracts ==
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page]
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2016-2017 2016 - 2017 Abstracts]
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page]
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Math_Circle_de_Madison_2015-2016 2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)]
[https://www.math.wisc.edu/wiki/index.php/Madison_Math_Circle_Abstracts_2015-2016 2015 - 2015 Abstracts]
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]
[[Archived Math Circle Material]]



Revision as of 22:09, 29 October 2018

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For the site in Spanish, visit Math Circle de Madison

What is a Math Circle?

The Madison Math Circle is a weekly series of mathematically based activities aimed at interested middle school and high school students. It is an outreach program organized by the UW Math Department. Our goal is to provide a taste of exciting ideas in math and science. In the past we've had talks about plasma and weather in outer space, video game graphics, and encryption. In the sessions, students (and parents) are often asked to explore problems on their own, with the presenter facilitating a discussion. The talks are independent of one another, so new students are welcome at any point.

The level of the audience varies quite widely, including a mix of middle school and high school students, and the speakers generally address this by considering subjects that will be interesting for a wide range of students.


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After each talk we'll have pizza provided by the Mathematics Department, and students will have an opportunity to mingle and chat with the speaker and with other participants, to ask questions about some of the topics that have been discussed, and also about college, careers in science, etc.

The Madison Math circle was featured in Wisconsin State Journal: check it out!

All right, I want to come!

We have a weekly meeting, Monday at 6pm in 3255 Helen C White Library, during the school year. New students are welcome at any point! There is no fee and the talks are independent of one another, so you can just show up any week, but we ask all participants to take a moment to register by following the link below:

Math Circle Registration Form

All of your information is kept private, and is only used by the Madison Math Circle organizer to help run the Circle.

If you are a student, we hope you will tell other interested students about these talks, and speak with your parents or with your teacher about organizing a car pool to the UW campus. If you are a parent or a teacher, we hope you'll tell your students about these talks and organize a car pool to the UW (all talks take place in 3255 Helen C White Library, on the UW-Madison campus, right next to the Memorial Union).


Directions and parking

Our meetings are held on the 3rd floor of Helen C. White Hall in room 3255.

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Parking. Parking on campus is rather limited. Here is as list of some options:

Email list

The best way to keep up to date with the what is going is by signing up for our email list. Send an empty email to join-mathcircle@lists.wisc.edu

Contact the organizers

The Madison Math Circle is organized by a group of professors and graduate students from the Department of Mathematics at the UW-Madison. If you have any questions, suggestions for topics, or so on, just email the organizers here. We are always interested in feedback!

Donations

Please consider donating to the Madison Math Circle. As noted in our annual report, our main costs consist of pizza and occasional supplies for the speakers. So far our costs have been covered by donations from the UW Mathematics Department as well as a generous gifts from a private donor. But our costs are rising, primarily because this year we expect to hold more meetings than in any previous year. In fact, this year, we expect to spend at least $2500 on pizza and supplies alone.

So please consider donating to support your math circle! The easiest way to donate is to go to the link:

Online Donation Link

There are instructions on that page for donating to the Math Department. Be sure and add a Gift Note saying that the donation is intended for the "Madison Math Circle"! The money goes into the Mathematics Department Annual Fund and is routed through the University of Wisconsin Foundation, which is convenient for record-keeping, etc.

Alternately, you can bring a check to one of the Math Circle Meetings. If you write a check, be sure to make it payable to the "WFAA" and add the note "Math Circle Donation" on the check.

Or you can just pay in cash, and we'll give you a receipt.

Help us grow!

If you like Math Circle, please help us continue to grow! Students, parents, and teachers can help by:

  • Posting our flyer at schools or anywhere that might have interested students
  • Discussing the Math Circle with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and others
  • Making an announcement about Math Circle at PTO meetings
  • Donating to Math Circle

Contact the organizers if you have questions or your own ideas about how to help out.

Meetings for Fall 2018

Unless specified talks start at 6pm in room 3255 of Helen C. White Library, unless otherwise noted.

Fall 2018
Date Speaker Topic
September 17, 2018 Sun Woo Park Why are Donuts and Cream Puffs "different"?
September 24, 2018 Ben Bruce Three Cottages Problem
October 1, 2018 Kit Newton How to calculate Pi if all you can do is throw things
October 8, 2018 Connor Simpson TBD
October 15, 2018 Jean-Luc Thiffeault TBD
October 22, 2018 Patrick Nicodemus Formal Systems in Computer Science and Logic
October 29, 2018 Moisés Herradón Cueto Order and chaos in population sizes (try it yourself!)
November 5, 2018 Christian Geske Josephus Problem
November 12, 2018 Rachel Davis TBD
November 19, 2018 Uri Andrews King Chicken

Off-Site Meetings

We will hold some Math Circle meetings at local high schools on early release days. If you are interesting in having us come to your high school, please contact us!


Fall 2017
Date Time Location Speaker Topic
October 29th 2:45pm East High School - Madison, WI TBD TBD
December 3rd 2:45pm East High School - Madison, WI TBD TBD

Useful Resources

Annual Reports

2013-2014 Annual Report

Archived Abstracts

2016 - 2017 Math Circle Page

2016 - 2017 Abstracts

2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page

2015 - 2016 Math Circle Page (Spanish)

2015 - 2015 Abstracts

Archived Math Circle Material

Link for presenters (in progress)

Advice For Math Circle Presenters

Sample Lesson Plans

"Circle in a Box"