From: Rusin, David <rusin@math.utexas.edu>
Subject: Bennett LINEAR ALGEBRA COMPETITION announcement
Date: 11/30/2021 4:58 PM

Faculty:

Please announce to your undergraduate (post-calculus) classes:

  The Mathematics Department will hold its annual William Bennett
  LINEAR ALGEBRA COMPETITION next week, on Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021.

  The questions will be difficult but drawn from the material that is
  presented in both M341 and M340L.  Participation will be limited to
  students who are in one of those courses now or who completed them
  in Spring or Summer of 2021.  (That is, more advanced students are
  not eligible.)

  First prize will be $300, second prize $200, third prize $100.

  This year the competition will return to its in-person format:
  the exam will be given in PMA 5.114 next Tuesday, Dec 7, 12:30-2:30pm.
  Please observe that this is during the no-class days, after classes
  have ended and before finals have begun.

  No sign-up is necessary.

  Last year's questions (with solutions) are posted outside the Math
  Department offices.

  For further information please contact Dave Rusin in PMA 9.140
  (rusin@math.utexas.edu)


Colleagues, if you have interesting challenge questions in Linear
Algebra, I welcome them for this or future competitions!

You may also direct students to prior years' questions online at
     math.utexas.edu/~rusin/Bennett/

Thank you for publicizing this event.

dave