UF Mathematics

Putnam Competition

The William Lowell Putnam Competition

The Department of Mathematics encourages talented undergraduates to participate in the annual Putnam Competition. This math contest dates back to 1938, and all regularly enrolled undergraduates from the United States and Canada are eligible to participate. Each year it is given, usually on the first Saturday in December. The department sets up a Putnam email list to communicate with interested students, and usually has a team participating in the team competition in addition to the competition for individuals.

2007 Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating and Jonathan King)

Putnam Exam Team:
Issac Brodsky   James Carolan   Jeff Yelton

2006 Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King and Hamza Yesilyurt)

Putnam Exam Team:
Issac Brodsky   Steve Miley   Ryo Fujita

2005 Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King and Pham Huu Tiep)

Putnam Exam Team:
Issac Brodsky   Steve Miley   Ryo Fujita

2004 Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King and Pham Huu Tiep)

Putnam Exam Team:
Go Fujita   Kevin Lawler   Erik Lundberg

2003 Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King and Pham Huu Tiep)

Putnam Exam Team:
Michael Damron   Marc Harper   Michael Skobel

2001 Putnam Competition

(Faculty advisors: Kevin Keating, Jonathan King, and Pham Huu Tiep))

Putnam Exam Team:
Stephen Hicks   Mike Damon   Peter Nguyen

The team finished with a rank of 130 out of 336. The other participants from UF were Romel Franca, Atchar Sudhyadhom, and Nicholas Scheiner.

2000 Putnam Competition

Stephen Hicks, a physics major at the University of Florida, was ranked 209th out of 2818 participants in the Sixty-First Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Michael Schroeder was ranked 422. There were 434 colleges and universities involved in the competition.

The University of Florida Team, Stephen Hicks, Vlad Petrescu and Joseph Serra III, was ranked 105 in the nation. There were teams from 322 institutions.

Other University of Florida participants included Michael Hunt, Allen Mathis, Nicholas Mecholsky, and Bruce Horton. The local competition was organized by Beverly L. Brechner.

1999 Putnam Competition

Stephen Hicks and Geoffrey Brown the top scorers from the University of Florida. The Putnam Team was Michael Hunt, DoRon Motter, and Vlad Petrescu.

Coach Kevin Keating's 1999 Putnam Competition page