UCLA Olga Radko Endowed Math Circle

ORMC Meetings • 2023-2024 Academic Year

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For meetings prior to Fall 2023, visit the Circle Archive.

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10/1/2023

We'll do a variety of Olympiad problems to warm up for the year of problem-solving.

The problems will range in level, from practice problems through BAMO up to Putnam, so there should be something for everyone.

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10/8/2023

We'll focus on writing clear proofs as we do problems from books and from a variety of actual Olympiads.

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10/15/2023

This week, we will solve competition problems with invariants.

When there is some repeated process, rather than studying what does change, we may want to look at what stays the same.

This allows us to make connections between the starting and ending positions, and we can rule out many possibilities this way.

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10/22/2023

We'll look at a few problems involving polynomials and the tricks to solve them.

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10/29/2023

We consider some more techniques for working with polynomials, such as Vieta's Formulas and tools for working with irreducible polynomials.

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11/5/2023

We will do competition problems using inequalities such as AM-GM and Cauchy-Schwarz.

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12/3/2023

We will go over the basics of generating functions, and see how they can be used in olympiad problems about counting.