The Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition is an annual problem-solving
contest, sponsored by the Iowa
Section of the Mathematical Association
of America, in which teams of undergraduate students from Iowa colleges
and universities are asked to solve problems in mathematics. Each
team of three students is given three hours to prepare and submit written
solutions to ten problems.
Grinnell College has participated in twelve of the thirteen Iowa Collegiate
Mathematics Competitions and has earned the first prize in seven of them.
- Triple Root (Abby Zillner 2010 and Rolf Hoyer 2008, with Gao Niu of
Iowa Wesleyan College): second place (75 points)
- HON (Mike Hu 2008, Eric Omwega 2008, and Trang Nguyen 2008): third
place (71 points)
- The Abel Group of Three, Mark Three (Norman Perlmutter 2007, Katrina
Honigs 2008, and Matt Johnson 2008): fourth place (65 points)
- Barely Legal (Avram Gottschlich 2007, Chris LeBailly 2008, and Trevor
Sedberry 2007): fifth place (61 points)
- Grinnell (Hai Tran 2009, Mona Chughtai 2008, and Andriana Nikolova
2007): sixth place (58 points)
- The Undefined (Abel Assefa Belay 2008, Nikoloz Sakvarelidze 2010, and
Iliana Radneva 2009): tied for tenth place (45 points)
- Y=F(z) (Fai Tosuratana 2010, Yue Hou 2009, and Zao Li 2010): tied for
tenth place (45 points)
- Brachistochrone (Kene Obi 2009, Joanna Ofori-Addo 2008, and Eric
Davenport 2008): tied for tenth place (45 points)
- Squeeze (Lynn Xue 2009, Tolga Oztan 2010, and Halima Ilyas 2009): tied
for thirteenth place (44 points)
- The Abel Group of Three, Mark Two (Norman Perlmutter 2007, Will Boney
2008, and Matt Johnson 2008): first place (65 points)
- :-) (Chris LeBailly 2008, Avram Gottschlich 2007, and Trevor
Sedberry 2007): third place (51 points)
- The Chris French Fan Club (Doug Babcock 2006, John Bowers 2006, and
Andrew Rinne 2006): tied for seventh place (41 points)
- 10!2 (Rolf Hoyer 2008, Emmon Chu 2007, and Katrina Honigs
2008): tied for seventh place (41 points)
- Les Bonbons (Vivien Wang 2008, Lynn Ji 2008, and Mike Hu 2008): ninth
place (40 points)
- Grinnellji (Gaurav Gupta 2007, Siddharth Srivastava 2009, and Lynn Xue
2009): tenth place (37 points)
- Ray (Brigham Hoegh 2008, Brianne Benness 2008, and Sheng Wang 2008):
eleventh place (34 points)
- Slackers (Trang Nguyen 2008 and Eric Omwega 2008): fifteenth place (26
points)
- Eastern Europe (Valeria Vulpe 2008, Iliana Radneva 2009, and Andriana
Nikolova 2007): tied for sixteenth place (25 points)
- YuPraHa (Hou Yue 2009, Prabal Adhikari 2009, and Hai Tran 2009):
eighteenth place (24 points)
- Finite Group of Order 3 (Anne Eaton 2008, Vicki Foss 2008, and Emily
Levenberg 2007): tied for nineteenth place (22 points)
- Monkey Sauce (Russ Waller 2007 and Nikoloz Sakvarelidze 2009):
twenty-sixth place (15 points)
- Non-Math Majors GC (Zed Yilma 2005, Suyog Shrestha 2006, and Trang
Nguyen 2008): second place (79 points)
- The Chris French Fan Club (Andrew Rinne 2006, Doug Babcock 2006, and
Arjun Guha 2006): third place (78 points)
- The Abel Group of Three (Will Boney 2008, Matt Johnson 2008, and Norman
Perlmutter 2007): fourth place (77 points)
- Wild Turkeys (Brett McMillian 2005, Katie Ryan 2007, and Justin Wallace
2005) (71 points)
- Triangle Kit (Kate Kearney 2005, Emily Markovitz 2005, and Avram Lyon
2006) (66 points)
- Top 10 (Jingkan Gu 2006, Oge Nnadi 2006, and Yvonne Palm 2006) (53
points)
- Farvaldem (Demetrio Rojas 2008, Valeria Vulpe 2008, and Fardous Bahbouh
2007) (42 points)
- The Incredible Trio (Mahi Demissie 2006, Stephane Nyombayire 2006, and
Tue To 2006) (35 points)
- Also participating: Mona Chughtai 2008
- Team Anti-Wellons: fifth place (54 points)
- Team Wellons (52 points)
- The Chris French Fan Club (50 points)
- Jonathan Wellons, Ming Gu, and Rajendra Magar: tied for first place (88 points)
- Matthew Bond, Devdatta Kulkarni, and Raicho Bojilov: third place (65
points)
- Logan Axon, Ben Jones, and Bonnie Smith (51 points)
- Choed Khannabha, Avram Lyon, and Nathan
Gotman (51 points)
- Michael Claveria, John Edwards, and a representative of Wartburg
College (49 points)
- Mike Olsen, Xu Wang, and John Wray (43 points)
- Kate Kearney, Kate Thomas, and Dawa Lama
Sherpa (40 points)
- Povilas Dapkevicius, Joe Benson, and Brett McMillian (38 points)
- Zed Yilma and Sanchit Chokhani (31 points)
- Ji-Hyun Seo, Ogechi Nnadi, and Aditya Bhave (29 points)
- Ming Gu, Jonathan
Wellons, and Rajendra
Magar: first place (100 points)
- Benjamin Blehm, Emily Resseger, and
Andrea Gelatt: third place (93 points)
- Matthew Bond, Raicho Bojilov, and Devdatta Kulkarni: fifth place (87
points)
- Hangmin Zhu, Moe Hein Aung, and Guangchao Feng: twelfth place (66
points)
- Dawa Lama Sherpa, Sanchit Chokhani, and Ananta Tiwari:
thirteenth place (65 points)
- Sarah Campbell, Nathan Gotman, and Logan Axon: fourteenth place (63
points)
- Gregory McGraw, Jonathan Emmons, and Morgan Page: fifteenth place (59
points)
- Joseph Benson, Kathryn Thomas, and Justin Wallace: seventeenth place
(56 points)
- Omondi Kasidhi, Omna Solomon, and Ode Ojowu: twenty-sixth place (31
points)
- Ming Gu, Atanas
Djumaliev, and Rajendra Magar: tied for third place (72 points)
- Alex Ford, Ole Nelson, and Morgan Page: sixth place (71 points)
- Sarah Campbell and Dawa Lama
Sherpa: seventh place (64 points)
- Dmitry Krivin, Oleksiy Andriychenko, and Atanas Djumaliev: second place
(67 points)
- Ming Gu, Rajendra Magar, and Dawa Lama Sherpa: eighteenth place (35
points)
- Tim Andrews, Michael Cooper, and Zorka Milin: first place (90
points)
- Oleksiy Andriychenko, Dmitry Krivin, and Wanlin Liu: second place (80
points)
- Andrea Gelatt, Emily Resseger, and Kyle Robertson: third place (76
points)
- Wyatt Gaswick, Rolf Peterson, and Dan Willms: sixth place (70
points)
- Chris Kaiserlian, Catherine Williams, and Anne Wilson: seventh place
(68 points)
- Alex Ford, Noah Hofmann-Smith, and Morgan Page: ninth place (54
points)
- Rochelle Gandour and Andrew Kensler: thirteenth place (46 points)
- Shiva Kabra, Shekhar Shah, and Nikhil Sohonie: tied for sixteenth place
(38 points)
- Reba Schuller, Tim Andrews, and Zorka Milin: first place (66
points).
- Hudson Ludvigson, Nicole Nelson, and Dmitry Krivin: fourth place (54
points).
- Anne Wilson and Dan Willms: eighth place (41 points).
- Tim Andrews, David Rudel, and Reba Schuller: first place (71
points).
- Aakash Bhasin, David Cavins, and Hudson Ludvigson: tied for fourth
place (47 points).
- David Rudel, Bao-jun Jiang, and Roc Yang: first place (81 points).
