Updated December 5, 2007

Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary Society

Pi Mu Epsilon, Inc (PME), is the Honorary National Mathematics Society. It was founded on May 25, 1914 at Syracuse University and currently has over 300 chapters at colleges and universities throughout the United States. The purpose of PME is the promotion of scholarly activity in mathematics among the students in academic institutions. For more information see Pi Mu Epsilon Honorary Society.

Putnam Exam

Each first Saturday of December, the MAA holds the Putnam Mathematical Competition for regularly enrolled undergraduates in colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. There are two ways for Marquette undergraduates to register.

One way: Before the end of September, prospective students contact the Math office at Cudahy Hall room 340 to find out which faculty member is the designated Marquette Putnam Representative. Then contact this MPR for final registration information.

Other way: Register for Fall 1-credit course MATH 100.

For past performances by Marquette students, see the Putnam file.

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. Every year, the ACM hosts the International Collegiate Programming Contest with teams from across the world attempting to solve 8-10 programming problems in 5 hours. The MSCS department organizes teams from Marquette to compete in the ICPC. For more information, see ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.