Putnam Club

WELCOME TO THE Spring 2024 PUTNAM CLUB!

Organizers: Paul Apisa, Dima Arinkin, Brian Lawrence, Laurel Ohm

The Eighth UW Undergraduate Math Competition is on Saturday, April 13th, 9am-noon in VV B239.

Everybody is welcome, even if you haven't been to the club meetings!

If you are interested, please register here. Registration is not required - it is to tell us how many people to expect. Here is more information about past competitions - winners and problem sets.

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

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).

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.

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

January 31	Brian Lawrence	Assorted algebra problems
February 7	Brian Lawrence
February 14	Paul Apisa	Multivariable Calculus.
February 21	Paul Apisa	Polynomials.
February 28	Brian Lawrence
March 6	Brian Lawrence
March 13	Dima Arinkin	Sequences, series, and recurrences
March 20	Dima Arinkin	Real numbers
April 3	Laurel Ohm	Inequalities
April 10	Laurel Ohm	Functional Equations

Fall 2023

September 27	Dima Arinkin	Introductory meeting - assorted problems.
October 4	Dima Arinkin	Polynomials.
October 11	Laurel Ohm	Calculus problems.
October 18	Laurel Ohm	Even numbered problems from last time and additional calculus problems
October 25	Dima Arinkin	Number theory.
November 1	Dima Arinkin	Let us try something different today: a mock math contest. Let's look at a past Virginia Tech Contests.
November 8	Brian Lawrence	Probability
November 15	Brian Lawrence	Combinatorics
November 22		No meeting (Wednesday before Thanksgiving)
November 29	Paul Apisa	Geometry.
December 6	Paul Apisa	Putnam review