The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Announcement of winners of the fifty-fifth competition held on
December 3, 1994
WINNING TEAMS
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Kiran S. Kedlaya, Lenhard L. Ng, Dylan P. Thurston
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY: Jeremy L. Bem, Robert D. Kleinberg, Mark Krosky
- MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: Henry L. Cohn, Adam W.
Meyerson, Thomas A. Weston
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: William R. Mann, Joel E. Rosenberg, Michail Sunitsky
- UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO: Ian A. Goldberg, Peter L. Milley, Kevin Purbhoo
The first place team receives an award of $7,500 and each member of the
team receives $500. The awards for second place are $5,000 and $400; for
third place $3,000 and $300; for fourth place $2,000 and $200; and for
fifth place $1000 and $100.
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 $1000.
- JEREMY L. BEM, Cornell University
- J.P. GROSSMAN, University of Toronto
- KIRAN S. KEDLAYA, Harvard University
- WILLIAM R. MANN, Princeton University
- LENHARD L. NG, Harvard University
THE NEXT FIVE HIGHEST RANKING INDIVIDUALS
Each receives an award of $500.
- SOUNDARARAJAN KANNAN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- DAVID L. SAVITT, University of British Columbia
- DANIEL K. SCHEPLER, Washington University, St. Louis
- NOAM M. SHAZEER, Duke University
- HONG ZHOU, Harvard University
THE NEXT SIX HIGHEST RANKING INDIVIDUALS
Each receives an award of $250.
- ALEXANDRU D. IONESCU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- ROBERT D. KLEINBERG, Cornell University
- JACOB A. RASMUSSEN, Princeton University
- ANDREW H. SCHULTZ, Johns Hopkins University
- DYLAN P. THURSTON, Harvard University
- ZHAOHUI ZHANG, Yale University
THE NEXT NINE HIGHEST RANKING INDIVIDUALS
Each receives an award of $100.
- HENRY L. COHN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- IAN A. GOLDBERG, University of Waterloo
- ADAM KALAI, Harvard University
- SERBAN M. NACU, Harvard University
- JOEL E. ROSENBERG, Princeton University
- MIKHAIL V. SHUBOV, Texas Tech University
- JADE P. VINSON, Washington University, St. Louis
- STEPHEN S. WANG, Harvard University
- JONATHAN L. WEINSTEIN, Harvard University
HONORABLE MENTION--TEAMS
- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN: Scott Annin, Igor V. Pavlovsky,
Eric M. Smith
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: Igor Berger, Yevgeniy Dodis, Mikhail Kogan
- UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: J.P. Grossman, Edward Leung, Naoki Sato
- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS: Ben Gum, Daniel K. Schepler, Jade
P. Vinson
- YALE UNIVERSITY: Gautam Chinta, Matthew Frank, Zhaohui Zhang
HONORABLE MENTION--INDIVIDUALS
- JARED E. ANDERSON, University of Victoria
- FEDERICO ARDILA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BRADLEY S. BART, University of Waterloo
- RUTH A. BRITTO-PACUMIO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- ROBERT H. CHENG, University of British Columbia
- YEVGENIY DODIS, New York University
- RON D. DROR, Rice University
- ALEX HENEVELD, Princeton University
- RANDY W. HO, University of Arizona
- JASON A. HOWALD, Miami University
- SERGEY M. IOFFE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- DEAN W. JENS, University of Chicago
- JOANNA L. KARCZMAREK, Queen's University
- MIKHAIL KOGAN, New York University
- BOTOND KÕSZEGI, Harvard University
- MARK KROSKY, Cornell University
- DANIEL T. MARTIN, Carleton College
- OLEXEI IVANOVICH MOTRUNICH, University of Missouri, Columbia
- AKIRA NEGI, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- AN T. NGUYEN, University of Texas, Austin
- ROYCE Y. PENG, Harvard University
- KEVIN PURBHOO, University of Waterloo
- LAWRENCE P. ROBERTS, Washington University, St. Louis
- NAOKI SATO, University of Toronto
- SAM SPENCER, Rice University
- JASON M. STARR, University of California, Berkeley
- MARK A. VAN RAAMSDONK, University of British Columbia
- DAVID R. WASSERMAN, University of California, San Diego
- THOMAS A. WESTON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- JEFFREY S. WILLSON, University of Chicago
ELIZABETH LOWELL PUTNAM PRIZE
Winner receives an award of $500.
- RUTH A. BRITTO-PACUMIO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
QUESTIONS COMMITTEE
Eugene Luks, University of Oregon (Chair); Fan Chung, Bellcore; and Mark
I. Krusemeyer, Carleton College
A total of 2,314 students from 409 colleges and universities in Canada
and the United States participated in the Competition. There were teams
from 284 institutions. More complete details will appear in the
American Mathematical Monthly.
March 3, 1995
Leonard F. Klosinski, Director; Gerald L. Alexanderson and Loren C.
Larson, Associate Directors
Converted to HTML on March 20, 1995
by Kiran S. Kedlaya (kedlaya@math.harvard.edu)