Rutgers students performance in recent Putnam Undergraduate Mathematics Competitions



The William Lowell Putnam Undergraduate Mathematics Competition is an annual presitigious mathematics contest that is open to all full-time undergraduates in the U.S. and Canada. It offers prizes for individuals and teams. Here is information about participating.


Results for 2007

Team (Gene Kim, Avi Rashin, Wei Chen): 36th place (out of approx. 400 teams)

Notable individual performances
StudentPercentile rank
Gene Kim 97%
Joseph Shao 88%
Jeremy Engel 83%
Wei Chen 82%
Avi Rashin 78%
Hou Keong Lou 78%

Results for 2006

Team (Gene Kim, Avi Rashin, Marla Slusky): 19th place (out of approx. 500 teams)

Notable individual performances
StudentPercentile rank
Gene Kim 93%
Alex Conway 93%
Marla Slusky 92%
Avi Rashin 87%
Wei Chen 79%
Joseph Shao 76%

Results for 2005

Team (Gene Kim, Siwei Zhu, Rohan Mathew): 52nd place (out of approx. 500 teams)

Notable individual performances
StudentPercentile rank
Avi Rashin 92%
Marla Slusky 88%
Gene Kim 88%
Rohan Mathew 85%
Jeremy Engel 74%
Siwei Zhu 70%
Jack Hanson 70%
Brian Koo 70%
Eric Koo 70%
Charles Siegel 70%
Eric Wayman 70%
Aron Samkoff 65%



Results for 2004

Team (Gene Kim, Siwei Zhu, Christopher Ross): 26th place (out of approx. 400 teams)

Notable individual performances
StudentPercentile rank
Gene Kim 94%
Siwei Zhu 92%
Stephen Curran 88%
Thomas Peters 84%
Matthew Meola 84%
Aron Samkoff 84%
Philip Engel 82%
Michael Alfare 82%
Chris Ross 75%
Marla Slusky 75%



Results for 2003

Team (Chris Ross, Philip Engel, Michael Alfare): 66th place

Notable individual performances
StudentPercentile rank
Gregory Muller 88%
Siwei Zhu 85%
Christopher Ross 83%
Thomas Peters 75%
Saul Foresta 75%
Brian Cornell 70%



Results for 2002

Team (Chris Ross, Philip Engel, Siwei Zhu): 75th place

Notable individual performances
StudentPercentile rank
Christopher Ross 93%
Philip Engel 85%
Christopher Holston 80%
Michael Alfare 70%