Big E and Special K contests 2015

Friday, November 20, 2015

The Big E and Special K contests were held on Saturday November 7th. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for 1st year students and the Big E contest is for upper year students.

Both contests consist of 6 problems, and complete written solutions are required.

This year, 35 students participated.

In the Big E contest there was a tie for first place and a tie for second place. The winners were:

1st place (prize $150 each)

  • Letian Chen
  • Daniel Spivak

2nd place (prize $75 each)

  • Mohamed El Alami
  • Alexandru Gatea

The next 4 students (in alphabetical order) were:

  • Xinle (Clair) Dai
  • Shouzhen Gu
  • Billy Jin
  • Antonio Molina

and they were followed by

  • Zhengyu (Jarry) Gu
  • Ting Han (Tony) Hu
  • Xijin Liang
  • Huaxin (Henry) Liu
  • Michael Zhu

In the Special K contest, the winners were:

1st place (prize $200)

  • Michael Pang

2nd place (prize $150)

  • Zouhaier Ferchiou

3rd place (prize $100)

  • Sina Abbasi

The next three contestants (in alphabetical order) were

  • Felix Bauckholt
  • Runsheng (Benson) Guo
  • Kevin Zhang

Congratulations to all the contestants.

Prof. Stephen New