Instructors for Berkeley Math Circle, 1998-99

Dmitrii Fuchs , Professor of Mathematics at UC Davis, Ph.D. Tbilisi State University; founder and coach of math circles in Moscow and organizer of Russian math Olympiads, contributor to the popular Russian Math-Physics journal "Quant".

Alexander Givental, Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Moscow State University; participant in Moscow math circles and many Russian contests.

Quan Lam, Office of the President for the University of California, teaches mathematics courses at Diablo Valley College; national winner of AHSME and USA Math Olympiad (USAMO), member of Caltech's Putnam team, coach for the DVC's AMAT YC math competition team and the Bay Area ARML teams, contest lover and math educator.

John McCuan , National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MSRI and Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Stanford University; experience in composing Olympiad-style math problems and training high school students.

Bjorn Poonen, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Ph.D. UC Berkeley, winner of USAMO and participant at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1985, four-times winner of the Putnam competition; prominent composer of Olympiad-style math problems, coach of the US team.

Vera Serganova, Associate Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Moscow State University, participant in Moscow math circles and many Russian contests.

Zvezdelina Stankova-Frenkel, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Harvard University; certified high school math teacher in Massachusetts and California; winner of many Bulgarian national math Olympiads, participant at the IMO in 1987-88 and the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad in 1986 on the Bulgarian team, coach of the US team at the Math Olympiad Summer Program (MOSP) in 1998.

Paul Zeitz , Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of San Francisco, Ph.D. UC Berkeley; math teacher for five years at Colorado Springs School; winner of the USAMO in 1974 and member of the first US team at the IMO in 1974; coach of the US team and Associate Director of MOSP in 1994-96; founder of the popular annual Bay Area Math Meet.

Hugo Rossi, Deputy Director of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute; Organizational Coordinator for the Math Circle.