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<span style="color:Indigo"><font size="5"> <div style="text-align: center;">WELCOME TO THE Spring 2024 PUTNAM CLUB!</div></font></span>
<span style="color:Indigo"><font size="5"> <div style="text-align: center;">WELCOME TO THE Spring 2025 PUTNAM CLUB!</div></font></span>


<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:crimson"><font size="3">Organizers: Paul Apisa, Dima Arinkin, Brian Lawrence, Laurel Ohm </font></span>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:crimson"><font size="3">Organizers: Dima Arinkin, Shamgar Gurevich, Cole Graham, Alexei Poltoratski</font></span>


'''Join us on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm (first meeting on Jan 31st) in Van Vleck B325 for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!'''


In the spring, the UW holds our own in-house Undergraduate Math Contest. It is (tentatively) scheduled for Saturday, April 13th.
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'''To sign up for Putnam club email announcements, please send an email to ''putnam-club+join@g-groups.wisc.edu'' (empty subject and body works). '''
The [[Undergraduate Math Competition | Ninth UW Undergraduate Math Competition]] took place on April 19th.  


Regular club meetings are on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in room VV B123. Come for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!
<div style="text-align: center;">[http://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/ Old Putnam exams and more information on the Putnam competition.]


<div style="text-align: center;">[http://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/ Old Putnam exams and more information on the Putnam competition.] The Putnam Exam, offered by the Mathematical Association of America, is the premier American math competition for undergraduate students.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">[[Putnam Club Archive | The archive of the Putnam Club from past years, with many practice problems.]]</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">[[Putnam Club Archive | The archive of the Putnam Club from past years, with many practice problems.]]</div>


To sign up for Putnam club email announcements, please send an email to putnam-club+join@g-groups.wisc.edu (empty subject and body works).


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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | January 31
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | January 29th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Problem potluck
| bgcolor="yellow" | Assorted algebra problems
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-012925.pdf|Problems]]
 
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 7
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 5th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 14
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Paul Apisa
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-021424.pdf|Multivariable Calculus]].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 21
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Paul Apisa
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-022124.pdf|Polynomials]].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 28
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 6
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 13
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-031324.pdf|Sequences, series, and recurrences]]
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-020525.pdf|Complex numbers]]
 
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 20
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 12th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-032024.pdf|Real numbers]]
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-021225.pdf|Two algebra (!) problems]] (my favorites)
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 3
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Laurel Ohm
| bgcolor="yellow" | [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p2S_WOAPlNp1S3V4cD_AscQlOpaTRF1V Inequalities]
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<span style="color:Indigo"><font size="5"> <div style="text-align: center;">Fall 2023</div></font></span>


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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | September 27
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 19th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | Introductory meeting - [[Media:Putnam-092723.pdf|assorted problems]].
| bgcolor="yellow" | [https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/math-assets/math-competition-flyers/UMUMC41_problems.pdf Let's look at Michigan Undergraduate Math competition]
 
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | October 4
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 26th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" |  
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-100423.pdf|Polynomials]].
| bgcolor="yellow" | Continue working on problems from last time
 
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 5th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Alexei Poltoratski
| bgcolor="yellow" | TBA


| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | October 11
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Laurel Ohm
| bgcolor="yellow" | [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yonONnXcFyI7VRaAyqnYodZuJIXoTfrJ/view?usp=drive_link Calculus problems].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | October 18
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 12th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Laurel Ohm
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Alexei Poltoratski
| bgcolor="yellow" | Even numbered problems from last time and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fe4Dxp7w3C3u5IvnM-U11dVyCWL1S0DA/view?usp=drive_link additional calculus problems]
| bgcolor="yellow" | TBA
 
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 19th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Problem potluck
| bgcolor="yellow" | Number theory


| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | October 25
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-102523.pdf|Number theory]].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 1
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 2nd ('''6pm''')
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Shamgar Gurevich
| bgcolor="yellow" | Let us try something different today: a mock math contest. Let's look at a past [https://intranet.math.vt.edu/vtrmc/exams/37th%20VTRMC.pdf Virginia Tech Contests].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 9th ('''6pm''')
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Shamgar Gurevich
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 8
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
| bgcolor="yellow" | Probability
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 15
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 16th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Cole Graham
| bgcolor="yellow" | Combinatorics
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Apr-16-problems.pdf|Differential equations]]
 
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 19th (Saturday: 9am-noon)
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | UW Undergraduate Math Competition
| bgcolor="yellow" | Van Vleck B115


| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 22
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| No meeting (Wednesday before Thanksgiving)
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 23rd
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Cole Graham
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:UWUMC25.pdf|UW undergraduate math competition]]


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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | April 30th ('''Last meeting of the semester''')
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Problem potluck
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 29
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Paul Apisa
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-112923.pdf|Geometry]].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | December 6
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Paul Apisa
| bgcolor="yellow" | Putnam review
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Latest revision as of 17:21, 27 April 2025

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WELCOME TO THE Spring 2025 PUTNAM CLUB!
Organizers: Dima Arinkin, Shamgar Gurevich, Cole Graham, Alexei Poltoratski


The Ninth UW Undergraduate Math Competition took place on April 19th.

Regular club meetings are on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in room VV B123. Come for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!


Old Putnam exams and more information on the Putnam competition.

To sign up for Putnam club email announcements, please send an email to putnam-club+join@g-groups.wisc.edu (empty subject and body works).

January 29th Problem potluck Problems
February 5th Dima Arinkin Complex numbers
February 12th Dima Arinkin Two algebra (!) problems (my favorites)
February 19th Dima Arinkin Let's look at Michigan Undergraduate Math competition
February 26th Continue working on problems from last time
March 5th Alexei Poltoratski TBA
March 12th Alexei Poltoratski TBA
March 19th Problem potluck Number theory
April 2nd (6pm) Shamgar Gurevich
April 9th (6pm) Shamgar Gurevich
April 16th Cole Graham Differential equations
April 19th (Saturday: 9am-noon) UW Undergraduate Math Competition Van Vleck B115
April 23rd Cole Graham UW undergraduate math competition
April 30th (Last meeting of the semester) Problem potluck
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