8:45 am, Tues-Sat

   There are history plenaries throughout the camp, by Glen
  (Prof van Brummelen) for the first two weeks, covering up
  through medieval Islamic mathematics, and during the last two
  weeks by Coach D (Prof Thomas Drucker), continuing up through
  the current day.

11:10 am, Tues-Sat

  The main mathematics plenary of the day.

   Week 1: Prof Francis Su of Harvey Mudd College, starting with
   a kick-off lecture Monday, June 27, on "Fun Math Facts and Structure" 
   and then a series of lectures on the Mathematics of Card Shuffling.

   Also on the afternoon of Wed. June 29 we had Prof Ellen Gethner,
   U Colorado at Denver, speak at 2:30 pm on a "Walk through the
   Gaussian Integers".
    

  Week 2: A variety of speakers, mostly Colorado mathematicians.  
  Sometimes we have two lectures, with the 2nd at 2:30 pm instead
  of the Math Writing Miniplenary.

    July 5: Prof Stefan Erickson, Colorado College
            Fibonacci Numbers and Divisibility

      2:30: Prof Stan Wagon, Macalester College
             Surprises in Mathematics

    July 6: Prof Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College
             Some uses of color in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, 
             but mainly about map and graph coloring.

    July 7: Prof Andrea Bruder, Colorado College
            The Mathematics of Rock Climbing
            (During the morning plenary time she will give a demonstration
             in a nearby rock climbing gym, and then at 2:30 she will give
             her plenary.)

    July 9: Dr Thomas
            Let Us Climb Stairs

    July 9: Prof Patricia McKenna, Metropolitan State College of Denver
             a graph theory topic involving puzzles


  Week 3:  Prof John Conway of Princeton, each day on a different 
  topic, such as fibonacci numbers, infinity, knots and tangles.


  Week 4: A variety of speakers.

    July 19-20: Prof Michael Ferrara, U Colorado at Denver
              Probabilistic and Combinatorial Games
             
    July 21: Prof Sunil Chetty, Colorado College
              Number Theory

    July 22: Dr Mark Lindsay, Iolani School, Hawaii
             Projctive Geometry  (or maybe some physics)
             
    July 23: Prof Jon Rogness, U Minnesota
             YouTube, Videos, and Moebius Transformations
            

3 pm, Tues-Fri

 Writing and Proof mini-plenaries (25 minutes) by 
 Mr M (Prof Stephen Maurer), mostly using examples from 
 student work on the Qualifying Test.

  

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