Enrollment in regular ORMC classes is open. It will close in the morning of 12/18. Returning students should apply to the same classes they attended in the Fall 2025 quarter. Enrollment in ORMC auxiliary classes, AMC 8 and AMC 10/12 Training, Olympiads, and the chess club, will open on 12/20 and close on 1/5. Only the students enrolled in the ORMC regular classes are eligible for enrollment in the auxiliary classes.
The Circle will be in session on Sundays: 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, and 3/8.
Attendance policy: if a student misses two or more classes for the reasons we do not consider excused absences, the student may be dis-enrolled from the program. We do not consider taking part in other activities such as sports, music, theater, robotic competitions as well as travel, excused absences.
Research for high school students: this year, we have a vertical integration pilot project aimed at involving qualified high school students in research projects at the department. On Sunday, 3/8, at 4:00 - 6:00 PM in a room TBA ORMC research teams will present their work to fellow Advanced students.
AIME II: Wednesday, 2/11, 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM, location TBA. Only students not able to take AIME I for a serious reason, as judged by the Circle, will be eligible for AIME II. Students can take only one of the two tests.
BAMO: Wednesday, 2/25, time and location TBA.
Math Kangaroo: Thursday, 3/19, 3:30 - 4:45 PM, will be proctored remotely.
Parents' Club: please let us know what you'd like to hear about, from college admissions to AI to home insurance to cosmology and quantum mechanics.
Donations:
Donations form a crucial component of the Circle's budget. Quarterly donations at the level of $300 per student are needed to sustain the high quality of our program. Please consider ORMC as a part of your giving plans this season! Donations are not a factor in enrollment decisions and do not entitle your child to enrollment.
ORMC may designate some Math Circles as ORMC satellites. A request for such a designation should be sent to the ORMC director. To qualify, a Math Circle
1. has to be free-of-charge for participating students;
2. have a substantial part, 50% or more, of their curriculum based on the ORMC curriculum;
3. have instructors with ORMC training; and
4. operate in close contact with ORMC so that ORMC could attest to the quality of instruction.
An ORMC Advanced 3 student, Avery Yu, is running the Oak Park Math Circle at Oak Park Community Center.
An ORMC Advanced 2 student, Thomas, has founded the Inspire Math Circle in Santa Clarita, CA. Knowing how difficult it is to learn advanced mathematics outside school and how ORMC elevated him to a thriving math student, Thomas teamed up with his math team buddy, collaborated with a local student organization, and recruited additional instructors to help teach younger students. They started with a challenging yet interesting curriculum, including number theory and combinatorics, and ran a test program for 4-6th graders. In June, the program expanded to include 1st to 3rd graders, introducing critical thinking skills based on the ORMC curriculum. The program is thriving and has received many positive reviews. Inspire Math Circle intends to continue spreading the love of math to young students with a possible plan to help more students in the Valley.
Pranav Boyapati, one of our ORMC Advanced 1 students, has started a free online program called Enlightening Math. He’s teaching Pre-Algebra and Algebra I in a fun, engaging way that also brings in the problem-solving style of math circles. The program has been running successfully for over a year, with students joining from different parts of the country. Classes happen on Saturdays over Zoom, and a few volunteers have helped Pranav get things rolling: https://www.enlighteningamc.org/
An ORMC Intermediate 2 student, Brandon Tso, has started a satellite Math Circle at Eagle Rock Elementary School, a magnet school within the Los Angeles Unified School District, for students in grades 3 - 5.
An ORMC Advanced 2 student, Lawrence Pang, along with his six friends, continues their ORMC Satellite Program at Wittmann Elementary School. The class is currently in its 4 year, currently having 25 students and 4 instructors. Many students and parents gave lots of positive feedback and have enjoyed the active learning and engagement.
Thank you notes
ORMC would like to thank the Circle's major donor, Ms. Sierra Chen, for her unwavering support.
Ms. Lily Hsu has pledged to donate 45K to the Circle over the course of five years. Thank you, Lily!
The Circle would like to thank Vineendra and Shalini Jain for their unwavering support of the circle for the past decade. They have donatede 5K this year only!
The Circle would like to thank Dr. Richard Rasiej for his continuous support, including covering the cost of the AI-powered chat-bot and making the latest YouTube videos on game theory.
The Circle would like to thank the Schlessinger family for providing food and beverages for the beginning and/or end of the quarter parties for ORMC instructors for five years in a row. They do it even after their child has stopped attending the Circle!
The Circle would like to thank the Berenji family for their generous support of the Circle. They have donated about 5K this year only!
ORMC would like to thank Jane Street for their 10K donation.
ORMC would like to thank Prof. Sucharit Sarkar for supporting the Circle through his NSF RTG grant.
The Circle would like to thank all the parents helping with fundraising.
Recent News
College admissions 2026
An ORMC student got an early admission to Caltech and is waiting for MIT to respond with regard to his regular application. We will publish the student's name once he makes his decision.
Math competitions 2025
Seven ORMC students have qualified for AIME 2026 on AMC 10 A/B 2025. Hats off to Aayush Bathija, Sashreek Das, Olivia Lee, and Sriram Surapaneni! We are waiting for other students' permission to publish their names.
Three ORMC students have qualified for AIME 2026 on AMC 12 A/B 2025. Congratulations to Sai Chamarthy! We are waiting for other students' permission to publish their names.
Tiger (Qiao) Zhang just won his second IMO gold (2024 and 2025)! We were very fortunate to have Tiger first as a student and then as a volunteer instructor for a number of years.
ORMC instructor makes a breakthrough in combinatorics
An ORMC instructor, Nikita Gladkov, with co-authors, has found a highly non-trivial counter-example to an important hypothesis in combinatorics, called the bunk-bed conjecture. The work has generated so much interest in the mathematical community that they made a video about the breakthrough even before the paper was published in a peer-reviewed magazine:
Two ORMC Students won gold on India International Math Competition
ORMC students, Atticus Stewart and Daniel Sun, won gold at InIMC Summer 2024 individual competitions, Keystage 3 and Keystage 2 (for younger students) respectively. Hats off to Atticus and Daniel!
