The 36th & 37th Annual Jacob-Cohen-Killam Mathematics Competition
The department held the Jacob-Cohen-Killam Mathematics Competition exam on Tuesday, April 19th from 7-9pm in 151 and 152 Goessmann.
Because of the pandemic, this year the (36th & 37th annual) J-C-K competition was open to all 1st, 2nd & 3rd year degree students at UMass Amherst.
First Prize | $1600 |
Second Prize | $1000 |
Third Prize | $600 |
Fourth Prize | $200 |
Prize Winners:
-
Bingheng Yang, first [$1600]
-
Chieh-Hui Cheng, second [$1000]
-
Cameron Hurley, third (tie) [$400]
-
Ceilidh Scott, third (tie) [$400]
Honorable Mentions:
-
Pranav Hari [$125]
-
Aditya Khurmi [$125]
-
Steven Rossi [$125]
-
Justin Steinmann [$125]
Continuing Education Students and close relatives of faculty members of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics are not eligible.
Sponsors
- John Baillieul
- James Francis
- Roy Perdue
Past winners
2004 | Elena Zaurova (First Place), Kevin Grimaldi (Second Place), Edward Slavich (Third Place), Thomas Folz-Donahue, Vitaliy Lvin and Michael Sindelar (Honorable Mention) |
2005 | Kevin Grimaldi (First Place), Shaohan Hu (Second Place), Daniel Arpino (Third Place), Jesse Winn (Honorable Mention) |
2006 | Shaohan Hu (First Place), Michael Krainin (Second Place), Hilary Scheintaub (Third Place), Alexander McAvoy (Honorable Mention) |
2007 | Michael Kranin (First Place), Andrew Hall, Kai Xiao (Second Place) |
2008 | Andrew Hall (First Place), Kai Xiao (Second Place), Kim Kyungyoon (Third Place), Yi Ding (Honorable Mention) |
2009 | Nathan Harmon (First Place), Keaton Burns (Second Place), Boxuan Cui (Third Place), Anton Medvedev (Fourth Place), Jinlong Tan (Honorable Mention) |
2010 | Nathan Harmon (First Place), Jingyu Chen (Second Place), Magnum Lew (Third Place), Nicolas Reyes (Fourth Place), Thomas Ryabin (Honorable Mention) |
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) |
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) |
2013 | Michael Bjorge (First Place), Andrey Smirnov (Second Place), Jeffrey Amirault (Third Place), Ping Fung (Third Place), Nathaniel Scholnick (Third Place) |
2014 | Batkhuyag Batsaikhan (First Place), Aaron Dunbrack (Second Place), Da Lu (Second Place), Jeremiah Davis (Fourth Place) |
2015 | Aaron Dunbrack (First Place), Michael Mueller (Second Place), Robert Ambrose (Third Place), Kai Nakamura (Fourth Place) |
2016 | Thomas Bogue (First Place), Kai Nakamura (First Place), Aubrey Wiederin (First Place - 3-way tie), James Hagborg (Second Place) |
2017 | James Hagborg (First Place), Alexander Fischer (Second Place), Artem Vysogorets (Third Place), Daniel Weber (Fourth Place) |
2018 | Patrick Lei (First Place), Nishad Ranade (Second Place), Mark Xiang (Third Place), Shirui Cao (Third Place) |
2019 | Patrick Lei (First Place), Guanghao Wei (Second Place), Sattwik Das (Third Place), Shirui Cao (Fourth Place), Risen Luan (Fourth Place) |
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) |
Undergraduate
- Undergraduate Overview
- Major Requirements
- Advising Information
- Activities, Research and Scholarships
- Actuarial Science
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
- Career Opportunities
- Honors
- Minor, Secondary Major, Dual Degree
- Transfer and AP Credit and Study Abroad
- R1 Exemption
- FAQ
- Learning Resources
- Math Club
- Math Competition
- Directed Reading Program