From: rusin 
Subject: Putnam prep sessions return!
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2015 11:29:41 -0500 (CDT)

Faculty,

Please announce in your undergraduate classes:

     It's time to sign up for the Putnam competition!

     The Putnam is a nationwide mathematics competition open to all
     undergraduates. You can win a graduate fellowship to Harvard
     University! The questions are very fun -- but very challenging.
     Here is one from last year:

     "On each face of a regular icosahedron, a nonnegative integer is
      written. These twenty integers sum to 39. Show that there must be two
      faces that have the same integer written on them and share a vertex."

     We will have practice sessions for the Putnam exam every MONDAY
     this semester, 5pm - 7pm in RLM 9.166, starting one week from today --
     Oct 12. We provide free pizza because it has been scientifically
     proven to help students solve challenging math problems :-) .
     Students who won't attend this first meeting are encouraged to
     contact Dave Rusin (RLM 9.140) to register.

     The contest itself will be December 5.

Last year UT fielded a great group of strong students -- four of our
students placed in the top 10% of all contestants! -- and we can do
well again this year if you encourage your best students to 
participate.
Thank you for your help.

Dave Rusin