The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a yearly math contest for undergraduate students around the United States. The competition is always held on the first Saturday of December; this year, it is on Saturday, December 6th. KSU students will be able to participate in person on the Marietta campus.

If you are interested in participating in the competition or attending any of the practice sessions, please visit the website or email Dr. Tsz Chan.

The Putnam competition is a very intense experience. To help you feel more prepared for it, and/or to help you decide if you want to participate, Drs. Michael Griffin and Tsz Chan hold practice sessions on Wednesdays from 4:30 pm to 5:45 pm in room D109 of the Math Building on Marietta campus to gear up your problem-solving skills and creative thinking.

The contest questions range from a variety of topics:

• fun questions & games
• calculus & analysis
• sequences & series
• inequalities
• polynomials
• number theory
• counting & probability
• matrices & linear algebra
• abstract algebra
• differential equations