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Upstate New York Math Team
Mathematical Problem Solving
Dear Upstate New York Math Team,
We have an amazing double-header this weekend, with a math talk on Saturday morning by Coach Cao, and Team Training #2 on Sunday morning with Coach Villani. Everyone is welcome, and I hope you will join us. The Zoom links are below.
In other news, our ARML Problem of the Day in our discord server will start on Monday in the #problem-discussion channel. This is a great way to get in some daily math problem solving practice, and I hope it will spark some discussion. (Do you know a good way to reply to the message without inadvertently providing a spoiler?)
And the Application Form for our ARML team will appear soon, I promise. We are planning to send 2 teams of 15 students plus some alternates. It’s a great event, and a unique chance to gather with top math students from across Upstate New York.
Sincerely,
Japheth
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Japheth Wood is a coach for the Upstate New York Math Team and also a math professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
*For our purposes, Upstate New York refers to that part of New York State which lies outside of Long Island and New York City. Are you not an Upstate New Yorker? We welcome you to join us at our training sessions, but can’t invite you to be part of our geographically-defined teams at ARML and other contests.
Practices: Talks and Trainings
Complex Numbers with Coach Xiaodong Cao
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/95091686314?pwd=aH63uYAZPZ9Q0GE3jxmyUrbyz8Aq2r.1
Description: The Complex Number system extends the Real Numbers in fascinating ways.
Team Practice #2 with Coach Anthony Villani
Date: Sunday, February 23, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82682517748?pwd=y9JLpHLkj58ZhysTtIzUtHjWBty1ID.1
Description: Gather online to practice in a team round format.
Upcoming Events (Upstate events are usually Sundays, 9-10am)
February 22 (Saturday): Complex Numbers with Coach Cao
February 23: Team Practice #2 with Coach Villani
March 9: Number Theory talk with team member Taran
March 22 (Saturday): (tentative) Math Talk with Coach Cao
March 23: Team Practice #3 with Coach Villani
March 29: Generating Functions talk with team alum Mason Eyler
April 20: Team Practice #4 with Coach Villani
May 18: Team Practice #5 with Coach Villani
We are adding Upstate talks and trainings, so please keep your Sundays, 9-10am free and some Saturdays. Some events may be announced very close to the date.
Reminder: Please get ahold of a copy of Paul Zeitz’s Art and Craft of Problem Solving book, which we will use as a common text this year.
Did you miss my math talk about the number 2025? You can watch it here.
Calendar
Wednesday/Thursday, March 19-20, 2025: USAMO/USAJMO (by invitation)
Saturday, April 5, 2025 (tentatively): NYSML at Syosset High School (Long Island)
Sunday, April 13: SMT (Stanford Math Tournament) online
Friday–Saturday, May 30–31, 2025: ARML at Penn State
Opportunities
Do you know of opportunities of interest to the Upstate New York Math Team members? Please send them our way!
Accolades
Mason Eyler earned an Honorable Mention on the Putnam Exam by scoring somewhere between 48 and. 66 points out of 120, and placing between 26th and 100th place. Mason was one of five Stanford students earning honorable mention, and the team placed 3rd behind MIT and Harvard. The Putnam is known as the world’s toughest math contest for undergraduates, and is held on the first Saturday of each year. The median score on the Putnam exam was again 0 points (which, admittedly, is better than nothing).
Hiram Golze is a 2024 Edyth May Sliffe Award Winner in recognition for “Dedication to Motivating Students in Mathematics”. Hiram is an UTAH ARML team coach and presented an Introduction to Induction to us in fall 2023.
Alex, Benjamin, Celene, Emily, Jacob, Michael, and Tianze competed in the February 2025 HMMT competition. Jacob wrote: “It went pretty well! We put up some good team numbers and were hoping to reach top 30 to get an automatic return invite! A parent wrote that, “I think they did great at yesterday's guts round, scoring 180 points in total. Very well done!”.
Have you or someone you know done something absolutely amazing or unusual, and would like to share that with the Upstate New York Math Team community? Please get in touch!
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