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Upstate New York Math Team
Mathematical Problem Solving
Dear Upstate New York Math Team,
Three quick announcements:
Join us tomorrow morning, March 9, for a Number Theory talk by Upstate team member Taran Knutson. Details below.
Apply to join the 2025 ARML team and represent Upstate New York on May 30 and 31. Click on the button below. 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.
Our ARML Problem of the Day has started. A challenging math problem from a past ARML competition is delivered each morning in the #problem-discussion channel of our Discord server. This is a great way to get in some daily math problem solving practice, and has already sparked some excellent engagement.
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.
Application for the Upstate New York Math Team 2025 ARML Team.
Practices: Talks and Trainings
Number Theory with team member Taran Knutson
Date: Sunday, March 9, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/82682517748?pwd=y9JLpHLkj58ZhysTtIzUtHjWBty1ID.1
Description: Learn about Number Theory from a fellow teammate.
Upcoming Events (Upstate events are usually Sundays, 9-10am)
March 9: Number Theory talk with team member Taran Knutson
March 16: Logic and Induction with Sourav Chowdhury
March 22 (Saturday): 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.
Calendar
Friday, March 14: Pi Day. It’s also known as the International Day of Mathematics. What are you doing for Pi Day?
Wednesday/Thursday, March 19-20, 2025: USAMO/USAJMO (by invitation)
Saturday, April 5, 2025: 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
This seems to have happened last year, but we just heard about it. Alexandra Schmidt was named as the new Henry L. Thompson Chair in Mathematics at the Emma Willard School in Troy, NY. Ms. Schmidt has been one of the forces behind the Albany Area Math Circle for more than a decade.
An Update on HMMT from Emily via Jacob”
“Good news! Our team placed 12th in the Team Round and 16th in the Guts Round out of 100 total teams. Also, Michael Aram placed top 20 individually in the Combinatorics round, and Emily Yu placed top 50 in the Algebra and Number Theory round. Upstate NY placed in the top 30 teams overall, which guarantees us a spot in the competition next year!”
Congratulations again to Alex, Benjamin, Celene, Emily, Jacob, Michael, and Tianze!
If you’d like to learn more about the HMMT results, click below:
https://hmmt-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/tournaments/2025/feb/results/long.htm
https://hmmt-archive.s3.amazonaws.com/tournaments/2025/feb/results/short.htm
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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