Putnam Results 2014

The University of Waterloo team did extremely well in the 2014 Putnam Competition, finishing in 4th place.

Pictured, from left to right: Dean Ian Goulden, 2014 Waterloo Putnam team members Daniel Spivak and Sam Eisenstat, with coach Prof. Stephen New.

The top 5 universities:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Harvard University
3. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4. University of Waterloo
5. Carnegie Mellon University

The next 5 universities, in alphabetical order, were
California Institute of Technology, University of California-Los Angeles,
Duke University, Stanford University, Yale University

Congratulations to the University of Waterloo team members:
Daniel Spivak, Sam Eisenstat, and Kangning (Colin) Chen.

Pictured below: Kangning (Colin) Chen and Prof. Stephen New

Congratulations also to the following University of Waterloo students
for their tremendous individual performance in the competition.

The top University of Waterloo student was Daniel Spivak. He was among the top 25 of the 4320 contestants!

Our next 4 students, listed alphabetically, were among the top 200
contestants: Sam Eisenstat, Kangning (Colin) Chen, Shouzhen Gu, Paul Musgrave.

The following 4 students, listed alphabetically, were among the top 300
contestants: Rutger Campbell, Peili Dai, Alexandru Gatea, Ghislain McKay.

The following 5 students, listed alphabetically, were among the top 500
contestants: Xinle (Clair) Dai, Zhengyu (Jarry) Gu, Zhuan Khye Koh, Ritvik Ramkumar, Kaiyu (Kevin) Wu.

This is the 19th time since 1968 that a Waterloo team has placed in the top 5 among North American universities.

Prof. Stephen New (coach)