Math Competition : Department of Mathematics and Statistics : UMass Amherst

The Jacob-Cohen-Killam Mathematics Competition

The department holds the Jacob-Cohen-Killam Mathematics Competition each spring. The exam is open to all 1st and 2nd year degree students at UMass Amherst. Continuing Education Students and close relatives of faculty members of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics are not eligible. Recent prize amounts:

First Prize	$1600
Second Prize	$1000
Third Prize	$600
Fourth Prize	$200

A very big thanks to our generous sponsors:

John Baillieul ('67)
James Francis ('86)
Roy Perdue ('73)

Past winners

2025	Son Hoang Pham (First), Aidan Lang and Natalie Welling (tied for Second)
2024	Son Hoang Pham (First), Garrett Hinkley (Second), Owen Bechtel and Samuel Silver (tied for Third)
2023	Minh Do (First), Aditya Khurmi (Second), Minh Nguyen (Third)
2022 and 2021	Bingheng Yang (First), Chieh-Hui Cheng (Second), Cameron Hurley and Ceilidh Scott (tie for Third), Honorable mentions: Pranav Hari, Aditya Khurmi, Steven Rossi, Justin Steinmann
2020	Pranav Garg (First Place), Guanghao Wei (Second Place), Kirin Sarangkasari (Third Place), Dhruba Basu (Fourth Place), Joshua Bornstein (Fourth Place), Stuart Lustig (Fourth Place), Matthew Miller (Fourth Place)
2019	Patrick Lei (First Place), Guanghao Wei (Second Place), Sattwik Das (Third Place), Shirui Cao (Fourth Place), Risen Luan (Fourth Place)
2018	Patrick Lei (First Place), Nishad Ranade (Second Place), Mark Xiang (Third Place), Shirui Cao (Third Place)
2017	James Hagborg (First Place), Alexander Fischer (Second Place), Artem Vysogorets (Third Place), Daniel Weber (Fourth Place)
2016	Thomas Bogue (First Place), Kai Nakamura (First Place), Aubrey Wiederin (First Place - 3-way tie), James Hagborg (Second Place)
2015	Aaron Dunbrack (First Place), Michael Mueller (Second Place), Robert Ambrose (Third Place), Kai Nakamura (Fourth Place)
2014	Batkhuyag Batsaikhan (First Place), Aaron Dunbrack (Second Place), Da Lu (Second Place), Jeremiah Davis (Fourth Place)
2013	Michael Bjorge (First Place), Andrey Smirnov (Second Place), Jeffrey Amirault (Third Place), Ping Fung (Third Place), Nathaniel Scholnick (Third Place)
2012	Michael Bjorge (First Place), Andrey Smirnov (First Place), Andrew Maurer (Third Place), Keenan Mahan (Fourth Place), Dan Phelps (Fourth Place), Ryan Szeto (Fourth Place)
2011	Jingyu Chen (First Place), Sunjeong Im (Second Place), Magnum Lew (Third Place-tied), Keenan Mahan (Third Place-tied), Nicholas Reyes (Honorable Mention), Sofya Vorotnikova (Honorable Mention)
2010	Nathan Harmon (First Place), Jingyu Chen (Second Place), Magnum Lew (Third Place), Nicolas Reyes (Fourth Place), Thomas Ryabin (Honorable Mention)
2009	Nathan Harmon (First Place), Keaton Burns (Second Place), Boxuan Cui (Third Place), Anton Medvedev (Fourth Place), Jinlong Tan (Honorable Mention)
2008	Andrew Hall (First Place), Kai Xiao (Second Place), Kim Kyungyoon (Third Place), Yi Ding (Honorable Mention)
2007	Michael Kranin (First Place), Andrew Hall, Kai Xiao (Second Place)
2006	Shaohan Hu (First Place), Michael Krainin (Second Place), Hilary Scheintaub (Third Place), Alexander McAvoy (Honorable Mention)
2005	Kevin Grimaldi (First Place), Shaohan Hu (Second Place), Daniel Arpino (Third Place), Jesse Winn (Honorable Mention)