Dr. Gabriel Nagy will lead off the Putnam Seminar this fall. Professors teaching the Putnam Seminar will focus on specific areas of problem solving. Faculty will present material, problems, strategies, and tips on Monday and Wednesday, and Dmytro Shklyarov will provide help with the problems on Friday. After several weeks, another professor will take over the Seminar and move on to a different area. That pattern will continue up to the Putnam Exam itself which is given on the first Saturday in December. Dr. Nagy will go over the 2008 Putnam Exam in the last week of the semester. Here is the Schedule.

Students in the Seminar will pitch their brains at stimulating problems in algebra, analysis, calculus, geometry, number theory, topology, and other areas. Most educators agree that working on challenging problems is one of the best ways to learn math.

The faculty involved in the Putnam Seminar are Drs. David Auckly, Ivan Blank, Todd Cochrane, Louis Crane, Xiang Fang, Zongzhu Lin, Diego Maldonado Tom Muenzenberger, Gabriel Nagy, Virginia Naibo, Chris Pinner, Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Victor Turchin, Dan Volok, and Ilia Zharkov.

MATH 499 is repeatable for credit and applies toward the bachelor's degree in mathematics.