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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). '''
Join us on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in room '''VV B123''' for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!


To complement the Putnam Exam in the fall, we have our own UW undergraduate math competition in April, with prizes for top participants. Details to follow!
<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" | 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
| bgcolor="yellow" |
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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="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-031324.pdf|Sequences, series, and recurrences]]
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | March 20
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-032024.pdf|Real numbers]]
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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" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | Introductory meeting - [[Media:Putnam-092723.pdf|assorted problems]].
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | October 4
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | February 5th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-100423.pdf|Polynomials]].
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-020525.pdf|Complex numbers]]
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| 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" | February 12th
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Laurel Ohm
| bgcolor="yellow" | Even numbered problems from last time and [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fe4Dxp7w3C3u5IvnM-U11dVyCWL1S0DA/view?usp=drive_link additional calculus problems]
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | October 25
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-102523.pdf|Number theory]].
| bgcolor="yellow" | [[Media:Putnam-021225.pdf|Two algebra (!) problems]] (my favorites)  
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 1
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Dima Arinkin
| 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" | November 8
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
| bgcolor="yellow" | Probability
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 15
| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | Brian Lawrence
| bgcolor="yellow" | Combinatorics
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| bgcolor="#D0D0D0" | November 22
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| No meeting (Wednesday before Thanksgiving)
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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 22:50, 12 February 2025

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


Join us on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in room VV B123 for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!

To complement the Putnam Exam in the fall, we have our own UW undergraduate math competition in April, with prizes for top participants. Details to follow!


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)
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