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