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<span style="color:Indigo"><font size="5"> <div style="text-align: center;">WELCOME TO THE Fall 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: Dima Arinkin, Shamgar Gurevich, Cole Graham, Alexei Poltoratski</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>
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Join us on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in Van Vleck <s>B131</s> '''B123''' for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!
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!


The Putnam Exam, offered by the Mathematical Association of America, is the premier American math competition for undergraduate students. This year, the exam is on Saturday, December 7th. The exam is run in two three-hour sessions of six problems each. This is a difficult exam with many interesting and fun problems.


<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.]


<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).  
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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Latest revision as of 22:39, 5 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