Mondays, 7:30-9PM, E15-283a
Walter Bender, advisor
Ricarose Roque, associate advisor
Joeli R. Caparco,
Neil M. Dowgun,
Paul Groudas,
Grant C. Hofmeister,
James P. Houghton,
Oliver Khamky,
WonSik Kim,
Matthew Ng,
Holli M. Rachall, and
Michal Wexler
First meeting [room E15-335] (September 1) Straight/Cross
Student Loan Art Program: view the collection (September 3-13)
Registration Day (September 7)
First day of classes (September 8)
Week 1 (September 8) The pleasures of problem solving, 18.7.21.69, thinking outside the box
Week 2 (September 13) How to solve it reductio ad absurdum, 7-11
Week 3 (September 20) Playing the odds Monty Hall, lots
Week 4 (September 27) Berloquin monkey and chimpanzee
Week 5 (October 4) Minimax and other game-playing strategies
Add Date (October 8)
Columbus Day Holiday (October 11)
Week 6 (October 11) No class
Week 7 (October 18) Burr puzzles and bar puzzles
Week 8 (October 25) Sequences Em-Heart-Eight, ...720!, 7,3,10,4,8,..., eleven-21,...
Week 9 (November 1) Coding ant trail, 1000 freshmen, prisoners, Gray codes
Week 10 (November 8) Patterns pennies
Veterans Day Holiday (November 11)
Week 11 (November 15) Deducto generating rule from patterns
Drop Date (November 17)
Week 12 (November 22) More Patterns Set, tanograms, and visual illusions
Thanksgiving Vacation (November 25, 26)
Week 13 (November 29) Topology 1 knot, 2 corks, 3 utilities, 7 bridges
Week 14 (December 6) Algorithms 12 coins, Martin Gardner’s toast, 4 freshmen crossing the bridge, odometer
Last day of classes (December 9)
Exam period (December 13-17)
Winter Vacation (December 18-January 2)
Spring pre-registration deadline (December 30)
First day of IAP (Moscow Puzzles) (January 3)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 17)
Last day of IAP (Berloquin Puzzles) (January 28)
Spring registration day (January 31)
Last day of classes spring term (May 12)
Fall pre-registration deadline (solutions) (May 31)