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Putnam Math Competition results released! Congratulations to everyone!

Congratulations to new Clay Research Fellows Ishan Levy and Mehtaab Sawhney!

I’m delighted to showcase and celebrate a selection of recent papers by the talented combinatorialists at MIT, especially those by students and postdocs. These papers reflect the culmination of their hard work, dedication, and innovative problem solving.

Putnam Math Competition at MIT

My book coming out soon!.

RT @QuantaMagazine: Mehtaab Sawhney and Ashwin Sah met as undergrads at MIT. Recently, the pair helped prove the enduring existence of subs….

Carl Schildkraut, an MIT undergrad, disproved a conjecture about equiangular lines that I had previously believed in. His new paper offers clever new constructions of graphs with high second eigenvalue multiplicity. I blogged about it here

MIT students took 70% of the honorable mentions and above this year, up from about 60% last year, and about 50% the previous time.

Putnam Competition results!.

Congratulations to @theyisun and @jonathanpwang for their new exciting venture @axiom_xyz using zero-knowledge proofs to enhance computation on the decentralized web.

> “This class builds connections,” says Zhao. “All of them are new to MIT, and many are arriving in the U.S. for their first time. They are all interested in mathematics. I hope that the seminar will help them meet other students and form a supportive community.”.

> The seminar is internationally diverse, with students from 10 countries outside the United States: Australia, Armenia, Canada, China, Georgia, India, Korea, Portugal, Singapore, and Thailand.

MIT has been dominating at the Putnam in recent years

This year, 187 MIT students took the intense six-hour Putnam Competition exam. That's a 25% increase from last year.

A profile of the Putnam Seminar that I've been teaching at MIT since 2017.

An updated version of my lecture notes on the probabilistic method in combinatorics: (just finished teaching the last class this semester 😀).

Putnam Math Competition @ MIT

We proved the Bollobás–Brightwell–Leader conjecture that nearly all k-SAT functions are unate.

Congratulations to Jinyoung Park and Huy Pham for proving the Kahn-Kalai conjecture---a central open problem in probabilistic combinatorics. Truly exciting breakthrough! The story of Jinyoung's extraordinary path to mathematics: .