The mathematics department hosts an annual Stuart Sidney Math Competition every spring. Starting from 2023 the competition covers several topics (instead of only focusing in the Calculus sequence). All UConn undergraduates, and pre-college students taking math courses at UConn (not co-op courses in high school), are welcome to participate. The competition will be grouped into three categories depending on the background of the contestants:
- Beginner: essentially 1000-level math courses
- Intermediate: 2000-level calculus, linear algebra
- Over-all: beyond calculus sequence
Organizers: Vasileios Chousionis and Mihai Fulger
Past competition problems
Stuart Sidney Math Competition 2024 solutions
Stuart Sidney Math Competition 2023 solutions
Undergraduate Calculus Competition 2019 solutions
Undergraduate Calculus Competition 2018 solutions
Undergraduate Calculus Competition 2017 solutions
Undergradaute Calculus Competition 2016 solutions
Undergraduate Calculus Competition 2015 solutions
Undergraduate Calculus Competition 2014
Past Competition results
2024 Stuart Sidney Math Competition
- First prize: Leonard Schweitzer,
- Second prize: Eli Gold,
- Intermediate level prize: Omkar Maralappanavar
- Beginner level prize: Anshul Rastogi
2023 Stuart Sidney Math Competition
- First prize: Leonard Schweitzer,
- Second prize: Eli Gold,
- Intermediate level prize: Leon Nguyen
- Beginner level prize: Quinn Saltus
2019 Calculus Competition
- First prize: Minjae Lee,
- Second prize: Trajan A. Murphy,
- Third prize: Thomas A. Strelecky,
- Honorable mention: Sean C. O’Hagan, Keagan T. Yao,
- First-Place Beginners: Samuel T. Degnan-Morgenstern.
2018 Calculus Competition
- First prize: Zhongwei Wang, Sydney C. Louit,
- Second prize: Renjie Xiong, Chengzhang Li,
- Third prize: Peter B. Ruthernberg, Keegan T. Yao.
2017 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Timothy Smits; Second: Surath Fernando; Third: Xinyu Wang.
- Intermediate First: Jungin Kim; Second: Keyur Shah; Thrid: Priyank Shelat.
- Beginner First: Jiapeng Guo, Weihan Li, Yi Zhou.
2016 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Robert Kao; Second: Eyal Minsky-Fenick, Timothy Smits; Fourth: Zachary Cohen, Trajan Murphy.
- Intermediate First: Eyal Minsky-Fenick; Second: Trajan Murphy; Honorable mention: Theodore Sauyet.
- Beginner First: Hongyi Xia; Honorable mention: Xiangyun Rui.
2015 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Robert Kao; Second: Timothy Smits; Honorable mention: Surath Fernando, Imanda Hayyu, Theodore Sauyet Jr., Dennis Scheglov.
- Intermediate First: Surath Fernando, Theodore Sauyet Jr., Dennis Scheglov; Honorable mention: Alexis Dziubek.
2014 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Scott Norton; Second: Robert Kao; Honorable mention: Patrick Adams, Janyu Bhatt, Jia Wu, Elizabeth Tripp, Isaac Packtor.
- Intermediate First: Patrick Adams, Janyu Bhatt.
- Beginner First: Kwun Yin Wong.
2013 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Scott Norton; Second: Robert Kao, Yu Zhang; Honorable mention: Teng Huang.
- Intermediate First: Robert Kao, Yu Zhang; Honorable mention: Clancy Emanuel, Cheng Guo, Timothy Smits.
- Beginner First: Clancy Emanuel; Second: Yijia Sun; Honorable mention: Zachary Cohen, Isaac Packtor.
2012 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Antoni Brzoska, Scott Norton.
- Intermediate First: Yu Zhang; Second: Tyler Silber, Elizabeth Tripp; Fourth: Aaron Carta.
- Beginner First: Yu Zhang; Honorable mention: Russell Bentley, Hannah Tripp.
2011 Calculus Competition
- Overall First: Antoni Brzoska, Scott Norton; Honorable mention: Michael Ignatowich, Daryl Klakouski, James Luczynski.
- Intermediate First: Daryl Klakouski.
- Beginner First: John Bartolotta, Luocheng Wang; Third: Savas Tsikis, Zhuoqing Xu.