The Big E and Special K contests (PDF) were held on Saturday, November 1. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.
The Special K contest is for first-year students and the Big E contest is for upper-year students.
Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required. This year, 40 students participated, and in both contests there was a tie for first place.
The winners of the Big E contest:
- First place - Daniel Spivak and Kaiyu (Kevin) Wu,
- Third place - Kangning (Colin) Chen
The next four students (in alphabetical order) were:
- Rutger Campbell
- Sam Eisenstat
- Alexandru Gatea
- Shouzhen Gu
and they were followed by:
- Anton Borissov
- Wenchao Du
- Xijin Liang
- Huaxin (Henry) Liu
- Kevin Luo
- Ritvik Ramkumar
- Jordan Teitelbaum
The winners of the Special K contest:
- First place - Henry Aniobi and Letian Chen
- Third place - Zhengyu (Jarry) Gu
- Fourth place - Mike Li
The next four students (in alphabetical order) were:
- Billy Jin
- Tianxiao Liu
- Antonio Molina Lovett
- Nihal Pednekar
followed in turn by:
- Xinle (Clair) Dai
- Suleyman Hasanzade
- Dancheng Hu
- Andrew Jay
- Tong Lin
- Stephen Wen
Congratulations
to
all
the
contestants,
especially
the
to
the
winners!
In
each
contest,
the
two
first-place
winners
will
each
receive
a
$175
prize
and
the
third-place
finisher
will
receive
a
$100
prize.
Special
thanks
to
Christopher
Small
who
suggested
many
of
the
problems
for
this
year’s
contest.
Stephen New