Putnam Results 2014

Friday, April 17, 2015

The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ team did extremely well in the , finishing in 4th place.

Pictured, from left to right: Dean Ian Goulden, 2014 À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Putnam team members Daniel Spivak and Sam Eisenstat, with coach Prof. Stephen New.

Putnam team
The top 5 universities:

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  2. Harvard University
  3. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  4. University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ
  5. Carnegie Mellon University

The next 5 universities, in alphabetical order, were
California Institute of Technology, University of California-Los Angeles,
Duke University, Stanford University, Yale University

Congratulations to the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ team members:
Daniel Spivak, Sam Eisenstat, and Kangning (Colin) Chen.

Pictured below: Kangning (Colin) Chen and Prof. Stephen New

Colin and Professor Stephen New
Congratulations also to the following University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ students
for their tremendous individual performance in the competition.

The top University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ student was Daniel Spivak. He was among the top 25 of the 4320 contestants!

Our next 4 students, listed alphabetically, were among the top 200
contestants: Sam Eisenstat, Kangning (Colin) Chen, Shouzhen Gu, Paul Musgrave.

The following 4 students, listed alphabetically, were among the top 300
contestants: Rutger Campbell, Peili Dai, Alexandru Gatea, Ghislain McKay.

The following 5 students, listed alphabetically, were among the top 500
contestants: Xinle (Clair) Dai, Zhengyu (Jarry) Gu, Zhuan Khye Koh, Ritvik Ramkumar, Kaiyu (Kevin) Wu.

This is the 19th time since 1968 that a À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ team has placed in the top 5 among North American universities.

Prof. Stephen New (coach)
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