Putnam Club

WELCOME TO THE Fall 2024 PUTNAM CLUB!

Organizers: Dima Arinkin, Shamgar Gurevich, Cole Graham, Alexei Poltoratski

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Join us on Wednesdays 5:00-6:30pm in Van Vleck B131 B123 for some challenging questions, pizza and soda!!!

The Putnam Exam is this week: on Saturday, December 7th. Email arinkin@wisc.edu to register.

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.

Old Putnam exams and more information on the Putnam competition.

The archive of the Putnam Club from past years, with many practice problems.

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).

September 4th	Problem potluck	Bring your own problem! The list of problems
September 11th	Problem potluck	Bring your own problem! The list of problems
September 18th	Dima Arinkin	Combinatorics
September 25th	Dima Arinkin	Generating series
October 2nd	Alexei Poltoratski	Sequences
October 9th	Alexei Poltoratski	Inequalities and limits
October 16th	Cole Graham	Probability
October 23th	Cole Graham	Probability and inequalities
October 30th	Cole Graham	Geometry
November 6th	Problem potluck	Bring your own problem! Topic: Games
November 13th	Dima Arinkin	Number Theory
November 20th at 6 pm	Shamgar Gurevich	Linear algebra
November 27th	No meeting - Happy Thanksgiving!
December 4th	Alexei Poltoratski
December 7th (Room TBA)	Putnam Exam	Two sessions: 9am-noon and 2pm-5pm