The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

Announcement of winners of the seventieth competition held on December 5, 2009

Winning Teams

Rank

School

Team Members (in alphabetical order)

1

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Qingchun Ren, Bohua Zhan, and Yufei Zhao

2

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Iurie Boreico, Arnav Tripathy, and Alex Zhai

3

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Jason C. Bland, Sam Elder, and Gjergji Zaimi

4

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Young Hun Jung, Seok Hyeong Lee, and Jeffrey Wang

5

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Peter Z. Diao, Adam C. Hesterberg, and John V. Pardon

The first place team receives an award of $25,000 and each member of the team receives $1,000. The awards for second place are $20,000 and $800; for third place $15,000 and $600; for fourth place $10,000 and $400; and for fifth place $5,000 and $200.

In each of the following categories, the listing is in alphabetical order.

The Putnam Fellows--The Five Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $2,500.

WILLIAM A. JOHNSON

University of Washington, Seattle

XIAOSHENG MU

Yale University

QINGCHUN REN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ARNAV TRIPATHY

Harvard University

YUFEI ZHAO

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Next Ten Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $1,000.

YAKOV I. BERCHENKO-KOGAN

California Institute of Technology

SERGEI S. BERNSTEIN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JASON C. BLAND

California Institute of Technology

KESTUTIS CESNAVICIUS

Rice University

PALMER C. MEBANE

Harvey Mudd College

JOHN V. PARDON

Princeton University

JACOB N. STEINHARDT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YI SUN

Harvard University

ALEX ZHAI

Harvard University

BOHUA ZHAN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Next Ten Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $250.

YI-WEI CHAN

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

JEFFREY CHEN

Stanford University

MILES D. EDWARDS

Indiana University, Bloomington

SAMUEL S. ELDER

California Institute of Technology

ZHOU FAN

Harvard University

WHAN GHANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SEOK HYEONG LEE

Stanford University

PANUPONG PASUPAT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

COLIN P. SANDON

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ERIC M. STANSIFER

California Institute of Technology

Honorable Mention: Teams

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Mikhail Lavrov, Matthew J. Rognlie, and Peng Shi

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

Mitchell Katz, Richard Matthew McCutchen, and Henry Scher

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Viktoriya Krakovna, Konstantin Matveev, and Alexander Remorov

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Casey Mihaloew, Fei Song, and Wuttisak Trongsiriwat

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Steven Karp, Wei Ma, and Dong Uk (David) Rhee

Honorable Mention: Individuals

ZACHARY R. ABEL, Harvard University

CEDRIC YEN-YU LIN, University of British Columbia

ALEKSANDER ARKHIPOV, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TONY J. LIU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JOHN D. BERMAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

XUE (GAKU) LIN, Princeton University

TIMOTHY J. BLACK, California Institute of Technology

YE LUO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

IURIE BOREICO, Harvard University

JEFFREY A. MANNING, California Institute of Technology

IVAN BORSENCO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RICHARD MATTHEW McCUTCHEN, University of Maryland, College Park

GEORGE A. BOXER, Princeton University

VIMANG MEHTA, Brown University

ZARATHUSTRA E. BRADY, California Institute of Technology

HENRIQUE P. OLIVEIRA PINTO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ROBERT M. BRASE, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

DOO SUNG PARK, California Institute of Technology

GABRIEL BUJOKAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JAEHYUN PARK, Stanford University

PAUL F. CHRISTIANO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DONG UK (DAVID) RHEE, University of Waterloo

ROBERT T. CORDWELL, University of New Mexico

DAVID S. ROLNICK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YU DENG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID B. RUSH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PETER Z. DIAO, Stanford University

KRISHANU R. SANKAR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MICHAEL Z. R. GOTTLIEB, California Institute of Technology

JONATHAN SCHNEIDER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RISHI V. GUPTA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

XIAOLIN (DANNY) SHI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ADAM C. HESTERBERG, Princeton University

JEONG SOO SIM, Stanford University

JASON R. HOCH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

CORY B. SMITH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

YOUNG HUN JUNG, Stanford University

ANDREW L. SOFFER, Washington University, St. Louis

STEVEN N. KARP, University of Waterloo

XIAOQING TANG, University of Rochester

SHAUNAK KISHORE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WUTTISAK TRONGSIRIWAT, University of Virginia

ERIC P. KNIGHT, Princeton University

DMITRY VAINTROB, Harvard University

MIKHAIL P. LAVROV, Duke University

AMEYA A. VELINGKER, Harvard University

HOLDEN LEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TENGYAO WANG, Princeton University

KEVIN LEE, Harvard University

YEOIL YOON, California Institute of Technology

PAUL D. LEWIS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

QIAOCHU YUAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BOYU LI, University of Waterloo

ADRIAN I. ZAHARIUC, Princeton University

JIZHOU LI, Michigan Technological University

GJERGJI ZAIMI, California Institute of Technology

Questions Committee

Mark Krusemeyer, Carleton College; Izabella Laba, University of British Columbia; and Bjorn Poonen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A total of 4036 students from 546 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the Competition. There were teams from 439 institutions. More complete details will appear in the American Mathematical Monthly.

March 1, 2010
Leonard F. Klosinski, Director; Gerald L. Alexanderson and Loren C. Larson, Associate Directors
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