Who are we?
There are a number of session coordinators who lead the math circles:
- Tom Davis (tomrdavis@earthlink.net)
competed for Caltech in the Putnam math contest. He applied his Stanford
PhD in Math at Silicon Graphics for 16 years. His main interest is in geometry
but unfortunately his main abilities lie in logic, the theory of computation,
and in mathematical analysis. Tom also has a number of math circle handouts
you may view at www.geometer.org/mathcircles.
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Hidefumi Katsuura
(katsuura@math.sjsu.edu) grew up in Japan, and came to
the United States to study at College of Charleston in South Carolina.
He received his Ph.D. in Topology from University of Delaware. His
current interests lie in fixed-point problems, geometry, inequalities,
sequences and series, numbers, puzzles, and wood working. He likes to
show off his spinning (Japanese) top ability to math circles at every
chance he gets.
- Tatiana
Shubin (
shubin@math.sjsu.edu) won the All-Siberian Math Olympiad
when she was in the seventh grade. Her B.S. is from Moscow State
University (Russia), and her PhD is from UC Santa Barbara.
She served for 6 years as the California State Director of AMC-8,
then became a co-founder of the Bay Area Math Adventures (BAMA), and has
been on the BAMA steering committee ever since.
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Paul Zeitz (zeitz@usfca.edu) was a member
of the first American team to participate in the International
Mathematical Olympiad. He also has helped to coach several
American IMO teams, and is the author of The Art and Craft of
Problem Solving. His PhD is in Ergodic Theory from UC Berkeley,
although now his main interests are combinatorics and organizing
math contests. He began BAMM, the Bay Area Math Meet, in 1994,
and is one of the founders of BAMO, the Bay Area Math Olympiad,
which began in 1999.
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Joshua Zucker
(joshua.zucker@stanfordalumni.org)
studied physics, math, and astronomy at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He
currently teaches at Castilleja School. He's active as an organizer of
the local Polya competition and also helps with the national American
Regions Math League.
In addition, there are a number of students between
7th and 12th grade.
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