Colorado Math Circle

ARML Team Practice
Saturday, May 12, 2012
2:00–5:00 pm
Duane G2B47

Congratulations to the math circle members who qualified for the 2012 USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad (USAJMO):

Albert Soh	Fairview HS
Robert Spofford	Heritage HS
Jesse Zhang	Fairview HS
Larry Zhang	Fairview HS

Congratulations to math circle alumni Sam Elder and Ben Alpert for their performance in the 2011 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition! Sam, a senior at Caltech, ranked among the top five (out of 4400 participants) and was named a Putnam fellow. Ben, a freshman at Carnegie Mellon, placed among the top twenty-five students.

The Colorado Math Circle finished in fourth place in the 2011-2012 ARML Power Contest. Congratulations to everyone who participated!

Congratulations to Kevin Xie of Douglas County High School who has been named a winner in the Open Round of the 2012 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO)! The contest attracted more than 1500 participants in the U.S. and Canada. The top winners now advance to the five-hour Invitational Round on Tuesday, March 13.

Colorado Math Circle alumna Hannah Alpert has been awarded honorable mention for the 2012 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for outstanding research in mathematics by an undergraduate student. A graduate of Fairview High School and University of Chicago, Hannah is currently a graduate student in mathematics at MIT.

The Rocky Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has awarded the Colorado Math Circle a $750 Section Activity Grant.

The Colorado Math Circle is in third place after Round 1 of the 2011–2012 ARML Power Contest. Congratulations to all participants! Round 2 will take place in February 2012.

The CU-Boulder Outreach Committee has awarded the Colorado Math Circle $4000 for the 2011–2012 academic year in recognition of “the ongoing commitment you demonstrate for extending exceptional teaching, research and/or creative work into Colorado’s communities”. We greatly appreciate the generous financial support we have received from the Outreach Committee and Department of Applied Mathematics these past few years.

Interested in broadening your mathematical knowledge and sharpening your analytical thinking? Join the Colorado Math Circle for exciting math talks and problem solving sessions hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Speakers will include math professors and mathematicians from around the state. Topics are expected to include number theory, combinatorics, probability, geometry, and group theory.

The Euler Group is intended for advanced high school students. It will meet throughout the year to work on problem solving, focusing on topics outside the standard math curriculum. Past topics have included cyclotomic polynomials, knot theory, computability theory, and dynamical systems.

The Galois Group is intended for advanced middle school students. It will meet throughout the year to work on problem solving. Past topics have included modular arithmetic, Catalan numbers, recursion, and pigeonhole principle. Recommended background: high school algebra. (Grade school students should wait until sixth grade before attending, even if they are currently studying middle school math.)

You may attend any meeting without pre-registering but if you would like to add your name to the Colorado Math Circle mailing list, please complete this registration form.

Check our calendar for the 2011–12 meeting schedule.

Meetings will take place in the CU-Boulder Engineering Center or Duane Physics Building or Benson Earth Sciences Building. (See driving directions.) The classroom location will change from month to month so please check our calendar for the correct room number.

See our FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions.

We will be preparing for the 2012 ARML Competition throughout the year. In June 2011 thirty-three students from fourteen different schools represented Colorado at the national competition. Colorado placed 14th in the U.S., out of 132 regional teams. In 2006 the Colorado ARML Team won first place in the B Division, outscoring over 80 teams from around the country and abroad.