April 5, 2006 Source: :
http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=4714 UW places fifth in Putnam Math Competition WATERLOO, Ont. -- The University of Waterloo is among the top five teams in North America's prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, which draws students from 550 post-secondary institutions. Waterloo students competed against 3,545 students in the United States and Canada. Since 1985, Waterloo has been consistently in the top 10 of the Putnam for all but two years. "This is a wonderful achievement by our Putnam team," said Tom Coleman, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics. "It supports my belief that our math students rank with the very best in the world." The Waterloo team members were Olena Bormashenko, of Toronto (fourth-year, applied math/pure math), Ralph Furmaniak, of London, Ont. (fourth-year, computer science) and Xiannan Li, of Ottawa (fourth-year, applied math/pure math). Furmaniak was among the top 25 students, while Bormashenko and Elyot Grant (computer science) received honorable mentions for being in the top 75. Stephen New, a professor of pure mathematics, coached the UW students along with colleague Ian VanderBurgh. This year, the top four teams were Harvard, Princeton, Duke and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 66th annual Putnam Mathematical Competition was held on campuses through North America last Dec. 3. The test is administered by the Mathematical Association of America and results were made available this week. For details, visit: http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnam/
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