Calendar

There are two class sessions each week. One of the classes is a lecture (often guest lectures by upper-level undergraduates who have previously done well in the Putnam Competition) and the other class is for student presentations of homework problems.

SES # SESSION TYPE TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Lecture 1 Hidden independence and uniformity Homework 1 out
2 Presentation 1 Homework 1 due
3 Lecture 2 Sums and integrals Homework 2 out
4 Presentation 2 Homework 2 due
5 Lecture 3 Analysis Homework 3 out
6 Presentation 3  Homework 3 due
7 Lecture 4 Recurrences Homework 4 out
8 Presentation 4 Homework 4 due
9 Lecture 5 Inequalities Homework 5 out
10 Presentation 5 Homework 5 due
11 Lecture 6 Probability Homework 6 out
12 Presentation 6  Homework 6 due
13 Lecture 7 Linear algebra Homework 7 out
14 Presentation 7 Homework 7 due
15 Lecture 8 Abstract algebra Homework 8 out
16 Presentation 8 Homework 8 due
17 Lecture 9 Congruences Homework 9 out
18 Presentation 9 Homework 9 due
19 Lecture 10 Combinatorial configurations Homework 10 out
20 Presentation 10 Homework 10 due
21 Lecture 11 Generating functions Homework 11 out
22 Presentation 11 Homework 11 due
23 Presentation 12 Solutions to Putnam 2017 exam  
24 Presentation 13 Solutions to Putnam 2016 exam  
25 Presentation 14 Solutions to part A of Putnam 2018 exam  
26 Presentation 15 Solutions to part B of Putnam 2018 exam  
27 Presentation 16 Presentations of student-created Putnam-style problems