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June 26, 2007
Discoveries + Breakthroughs: Math in the Movies
Computer technology, computational physics, and approximation theory have played major roles in the evolution of the...
June 11, 2007
Math at the Masters: A Mathematician's Foray into Advertising
Is it possible to give a math lesson in 30 seconds? If you were to ask Doug Arnold, director of the Institute for...
June 01, 2007
AIM Groundbreaking: Building a Castle for Math
On a bright, sunny day, dignitaries broke ground for the new American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) center in Morgan...
June 01, 2007
MAA Officers' Election
The election for MAA officers concluded on May 31, 2007. The new officers will assume their positions at the conclusion...
June 01, 2007
U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad: Spelling Champ Also Math Whiz
Evan M. O'Dorney, 13, who on May 31 won this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, will shortly be spending...
May 29, 2007
2007 Sliffe Teaching Awards: Honoring High School Math Coaches
The Sliffe Awards for distinguished mathematics teaching at the high school level are given annually to teachers deemed...
May 29, 2007
COMAP Announces MATHmodels.org
By Fernando Q. Gouvêa   The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) has announced a...
May 29, 2007
Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan to Receive 2007 Abel Prize
Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan, of New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded...
May 29, 2007
2007 IMO Team Selected
On May 22-23, the twelve 2007 USAMO winners took the rigorous team selection test to try to qualify for the U.S. team,...
May 29, 2007
$$Flatland$$: $$The$$ $$Movie$$
By Fernando Q. Gouvêa   Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is coming to the screen! Edwin A....

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USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad: 2010 USAJMO Winners

The Committee on the American Mathematics Competitions announces a new contest, the USA Junior Mathematical Olympiad, for students in 10th grade and below. This year, 237 students qualified for the USAJMO. On April 27-28, these students tackled a challenging, six-question exam, distributed via the Internet to their schools. The top thirteen scores, including ties, are listed below in alphabetical order.

Yury Aglyamov, Liberal Arts & Science Academy High School, Austin, Texas.

USA Mathematical Olympiad: 2010 USAMO Winners

This year, 329 outstanding high school students qualified for the 2010 USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO). On April 27-28, these students tackled a challenging, six-question exam, distributed via the Internet to their schools. The 12 winners are (in alphabetical order):

An Interview with Florian Potra

Florian A. Potra earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. After an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, he joined the faculty of the University of Iowa, first as an Associate Professor of Mathematics, and then as a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. In 1997-1998, he served as a Program Director in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the National Science Foundation.

MIT Team Takes Top Spot in 2009 Putnam Competition

The results of the 70th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, which took place Dec. 5, 2009, are in. The top five teams were from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($25,000), Harvard University ($20,000), the California Institute of Technology ($15,000), Stanford University ($10,000), and Princeton University ($5,000).

Perelman Awarded $1 Million Prize for Proving Poincaré Conjecture

The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) has awarded Grigoriy Perelman of St. Petersburg, Russia, its $1 million Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture (pdf).

Math and Computer Research Dominates Top Awards at 2010 Intel Science Talent Search

Erika A. DeBenedictis, 18, of Albuquerque, N.M., won the top award of $100,000 in the Intel Science Talent Search for her project developing a software navigation system to make travel through the solar system more efficient. Her optimizing search algorithm identifies energy-minimizing routes in specified regions of space and allows spacecraft to adjust flight paths en route.

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