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WELCOME TO THE Fall 2024 PUTNAM CLUB!
Organizers: Dima Arinkin, Shamgar Gurevich, Cole Graham, Alexei Poltoratski
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 in VV B115. 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.
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 (VV B115) | Putnam Exam | Two sessions: 9am-noon and 2pm-5pm
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