# News

May 16, 2013

April 3, 2013
##### The 73rd William Lowell Putnam Competition

The Princeton team earned an honorable mention in this year's William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.   Congratulations to Bowei Liu who had one of the top 25 individual scores and received an award of \$250. Congratulations also to Arku Adhikari, Wesley Cao, Alan Chang,  David Corwin, Kubrat Danailov, Evgeni Dimitrov, Jay Hashop, Bumsoo Kim, Ante Qu, Zev Rosengarten, Alexander Smith, Matthew Superdock, Juanhe Tan, and Allen Yang, who all earned an honorable mention for their individual scores.

March 25, 2013
##### Prof. Bhargava Brings Magic (and Math) to the Classroom

Manjul Bhargava, Princeton's Brandon Fradd, Class of 1983, Professor of Mathematics, has been featured for his Freshman Seminar, "The Mathematics of Magic Tricks and Games." For the full article, click here

March 21, 2013
##### Aaron Pixton Appointed to a Five-year Clay Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Aaron Pixton, a current 4th-year graduate student, who has been appointed to a five-year Clay Research Fellowship beginning September 1, 2013.

Aaron Pixton will receive his Ph.D. in 2013 from Princeton University under the supervision of Rahul Pandharipande. His research is in enumerative algebraic geometry. The topics he has worked on recently include the tautological ring of the moduli space of curves, moduli spaces of sheaves on 3-folds, and Gromov-Witten theory.