The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

Announcement of winners of the seventy-first competition held on December 4, 2010

Winning Teams

Rank

School

Team Members (in alphabetical order)

1

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Yakov Berchenko-Kogan, Jason C. Bland, and Brian Lawrence

2

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Sergei S. Bernstein, Whan Ghang, and Jacob N. Steinhardt

3

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Kevin Lee, Arnav Tripathy, and Alex (Lin) Zhai

4

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Shiyu Li, Evan M. O'Dorney, and David D. Gee

5

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Steven N. Karp, Boyu Li, and Malcolm A. Sharpe

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.

YU DENG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BRIAN R. LAWRENCE

California Institute of Technology

SEOK HYEONG LEE

Stanford University

COLIN P. SANDON

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ALEX (LIN) ZHAI

Harvard University

The Next Nine Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $1,000.

IURIE BOREICO

Harvard University

VLAD FIROIU

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ERIC K. LARSON

Harvard University

ZEHAO LI

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

TENGYU MA

Rice University

GYUJIN OH

Stanford University

JOHN V. PARDON

Princeton University

JACOB N. STEINHARDT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ARNAV TRIPATHY

Harvard University

The Next Ten Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $250.

YAKOV I. BERCHENKO-KOGAN

California Institute of Technology

SERGEI S. BERNSTEIN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JASON C. BLAND

California Institute of Technology

ZARATHUSTRA E. BRADY

California Institute of Technology

WHAN GHANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WILLIAM A. JOHNSON

University of Washington, Seattle

KONSTANTIN MATVEEV

University of Toronto

XIAOSHENG MU

Yale University

EVAN M. O'DORNEY

University of California, Berkeley

ALEXANDR ZAMORZAEV

Masachusetts Institute of Technology

Honorable Mention: Teams

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Vivek Bhattacharya, Alan Guo, and Mikhail P. Lavrov

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Xue Liu, John V. Pardon, and Tengyao Wang

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Jeffrey Chen, Seok Hyeong Lee, and Jae Hyun Park

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Mohammad Bavarian, Karlming Chen, and Ronnie Chen

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Konstantin Matveev, Alexander Remorov, and Sida Wang

Honorable Mention: Individuals

ROHIT AGRAWAL, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

AVI W. LEVY, University of Texas, Dallas

ALEXANDER G. ANDERSON, Washington University, St. Louis

PAUL D. LEWIS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

FRANK D. BAN, University of Waterloo

DANIEL LI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MOHAMMAD BAVARIAN, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

SHIYU LI, University of California, Berkeley

JOHN D. BERMAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SUNKYU LIM, Stanford University

TIMOTHY J. BLACK, California Institute of Technology

KEVIN LIN, University of Rochester

CRAIG M. BURKHART, Harvey Mudd College

ZHI KIN LOKE, Stanford University

YI-WEI CHAN, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

NIKITA LVOV, McGill University

YU CHENG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JEFFREY A. MANNING, California Institute of Technology

PAUL F. CHRISTIANO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PALMER C. MEBANE, Harvey Mudd College

MILES D. EDWARDS, Indiana University, Bloomington

OFIR NACHUM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SAM S. ELDER, California Institute of Technology

LYUBOSLAV N. PANCHEV, Stanford University

IAN A. FRANKEL, Princeton University

DANIEL E. POORE, Pomona College

DAVID D. GEE, University of California, Berkeley

YUE PU, Purdue University, West Lafayette

HIRAM B. GOLZE, Brigham Young University

ALEXANDER REMOROV, University of Toronto

SHERRY GONG, Harvard University

ELINA M. ROBEVA, Stanford University

BRIAN C. HAMRICK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID S. ROLNICK, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TRAVIS J. HANCE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID B. RUSH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NATHAN R. HARMAN, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

KRISHANU R. SANKAR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MATTHEW A. HARRISON-TRAINOR, University of Waterloo

JONATHAN SCHNEIDER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MARCELLO M. HERRESHOFF, Stanford University

NATHANIEL B. SHAR, Stanford University

ADAM C. HESTERBERG, Princeton University

MINSEON SHIN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

IN-JEE JEONG, Brown University

ANTHONY Y. WANG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

STEVEN N. KARP, University of Waterloo

TENGYAO WANG, Princeton University

SAM G. KELLER, Stanford University

YINGHUI WANG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ERIC P. KNIGHT, Princeton University

CHIU WAI WONG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JUSTIN KOPINSKY, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

GEORGE L. XING, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EMIL T. LALOV, Connecticut College

GJERGJI ZAIMI, California Institute of Technology

MIKHAIL P. LAVROV, Duke University

ZEYIN ZHANG, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PAK HIN LEE, Stanford University

ALEX W. ZORN, University of Chicago

Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize

Winner receives an award of $1,000.

YINGHUI WANG

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Questions Committee

Bjorn Poonen (Chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Izabella Laba, University of British Columbia; and George T. Gilbert, Texas Christian University.

A total of 4296 students from 546 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the Competition. There were teams from 442 institutions. More complete details will appear in the American Mathematical Monthly.

March 7, 2011
Leonard F. Klosinski, Director; Gerald L. Alexanderson and Loren C. Larson, Associate Directors
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