From: faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu [mailto:faculty-admin@cs.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Lazowska
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:23 PM
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List; faculty – Mailing List
Subject: Putnam competition
I’d like to once again draw your attention to the prep course for the Putnam Competition. CSE students have had excellent showings in recent years in this, and also in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling, with help from the expert tutelage in the Mathematics Department.
PUTNAM MATHEMATICAL
COMPETITION
Weekly meetings:
Mondays, 6-8PM, Padelford C-36
starting October 5
Competition date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Practice Exam: October 12, 2009
Learn problem solving skills in:
Combinatorics
Number Theory
Geometry and Trigonometry
Sequences and Series
Functional Relations
Algebra
For more information, see the Putnam at UWpage
http://www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/putpage.html
and theMath 480, The Art of Problem Solving page
http://www.math.washington.edu/~dumitriu/m480 au09.html
Faculty Contact/Sponsors:
Prof. Ioana Dumitriu, dumitriu@math.washington.edu
Prof. Julia Pevtsova, julia@math.washington.edu