Notes for Putnam exam practice meeting in E306, 5pm Friday 10/11/2024.
Plan to meet each Friday (except Thanksgiving) until the exam on Saturday 12/7.
Tomorrow is fall break, today might be low attendance.

Besides working on problems, some other possible meeting topics:
   * introductions for new faces
   * the IMC (Sasha)
   * requests for next time (formats, assignments, etc)

Files for today in https://cs.emory.edu/~mic/putnam/1011/ :

    2023.pdf, 2023s.pdf        -- last year, from https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/
    easy_putnam_problems.pdf   -- one or two easy problems from each year since 1988
    ss1.pdf, ss2.pdf           -- early problem sets from https://yufeizhao.com/a34/
    real-prac.pdf              -- example themed session (problems, hints, solutions)

I'll have some of these printed out.

Possible Introductions:

    Michelangelo Grigni (me, professor, organizer)
    Sasha Polyanskii (professor, also interested in https://www.imc-math.org.uk/)
    Levon Nurbekyan (professor, remote, out for visa)
    Rafael Kazuhiro Miyazaki (new grad student, has done past contests)
    Srijon Sarkar (undergraduate, participated last year, out today)
    Enoc De Jesus (undergraduate, participated last year)
    Casey Simon (undergraduate, new, met, out today)
    Quentin McCarthy (undergraduate, new, met)
    Victor Perea Rojas (undergraduate, new)
    Ishaan Jain (undergraduate, brand new, friend of Srijon)

Summary of meeting:
    Mic, Sasha, Rafael, Enoc, and Ishaan attended.
    After introductions and basic information, we mostly worked on the
    first 4 problems of real-prac.pdf (problems with reals).
    At end I asked students to solve at least 5 problems on ss1.pdf
    I'll put together a new "themed" set for next time (Friday),
    and try to release problems a few days early.