The UTSC Problem Solving Group meets weekly to learn the art and craft of problem solving. We meet on Tuesdays at 09:00 in IC-220. We’ll start meeting during the week of Monday, May 8th, 2023.
Each month, we have three kinds of events:
This summer, we will read through The Art and Craft of Problem-Solving by Paul Zeitz (UToronto Library). The major sections of the book are:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday April 20th 2023 @ 13:00 | Parker Glynn-Adey | Planning | Putnam Power Preparation | 9 |
| Tuesday May 16th | Parker Glynn-Adey | Getting Started: Simplifying Problems and Getting Hands Dirty | handout | 7 |
| Tuesday May 30th | Rizo | Generating functions | 9 | |
| Tuesday June 6th | None | Hike (weather permitting) | 8 | |
| Tuesday June 13th | Malhar | Combinatorics | handout | 9 |
| Tuesday June 20th (Reading Week) | None | Hike | 4 | |
| Tuesday June 27th | None | Problem Solving Session | 2021 Putnam Contest | 6 |
| Tuesday July 4th | Adib | Biology | handout | 9 |
| Tuesday July 11th | Robert | Recursively defined sets | handout | 8 |
| Tuesday July 18th | Rizo | Problem Solving Sesion | 2019 Putnam Contest | 6 |
| Arun | General strategies / inequalities | |||
| Alankrit | Binomial theorem / permutations | |||
| Chaitanya | Number theory | |||
| Sasha | Probability | |||
| Thomas | Complex numbers / number theory |
Things to decide on:
Published: Apr 19, 2023
Last Modified: Jul 18, 2023
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