The Math Prize founders,

Arun Alagappan and Dr. Ravi Boppana,

would like to thank:

Panelists for Parent Discussion

ADVANTAGE
TESTING
Dr. Glenn Ellison, Dr. Zuming Feng, Dr. Mary O’Keeffe,
and Dr. Mark Saul
FOUNDATION
Advantage Testing Volunteers
Elizabeth Cohan, Charles Loxton, Tina Lesem,
PRESENTS
and Jed Schwartz

Game Night Hosts

Michelle Chasin and Kathleen Humiston

Akamai Foundation Liaisons

Dr. Tom Leighton and Sandy Smith

Wolfram Research Liaison

Carol Cronin

NYU Liaison
Anina Karmen

Cooper Union Liaison

Christine Sarkissian

Contest Authors THE SECOND ANNUAL

Dr. Ravi Boppana and Dr. Joseph Woo

Contest Reviewers
Dr. Ioana Dumitriu, Jennifer Iglesias, Oleg Kryzhanovsky,
Joel Lewis, and Kate Rudolph

2010
Contest Volunteers
Deanna Abramowitz, Brigitte Bentele, Julie Blumenfeld, Meena Boppana,
Dr. Ranu Boppana, Noah Chasin, Rebecca Damas, Eve Drucker, Tim Evans,
Heidi Fisher, Erica Hopkins, Ruozhou Jia, Sheila Krilov, Oleg Kryzhanovsky,
Eliza Kuberska, Priya Kumar, Alex Lee, Marie Parham, Ming Jack Po,
Caroline Taylor, Rani Vedanthan, and Ruyin Xue AWARDS
CEREMONY
Congratulations to:
Saturday, November 13, 2010
2009 Math Prize Champion: The Great Hall
Elizabeth Synge, Massachusetts
The Cooper Union
The mission of the Advantage Testing Foundation is to advance
the academic and professional ambitions of students of every background
New York City
by expanding their educational opportunities. In addition to the Math Prize,
the Advantage Testing Foundation partners with Princeton University,
Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, Columbia University Medical Center,
and Yale School of Medicine to prepare exceptional students of modest means
for acceptance to the nation’s leading colleges and universities.

www.atfoundation.org

Shown above: 2009 winners of the Math Prize for Girls

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P rogram

1:45 pm
Piano
The Advantage Testing Foundation would like to thank
Alex Freedman
the Akamai Foundation for its generous sponsorship of the Math Prize.
Tutor at Advantage Testing
We would also like to thank Wolfram Research for donating
a copy of Mathematica for Students to each of our
230 contestants. We also acknowledge the support of 2:15 pm
NYU’s Center for Mathematical Talent and Introductory Remarks
Cooper Union’s Public Programs Department. Emcee: Lauren Frank
Trustee of the Advantage Testing Foundation
Board of Trustees, Advantage Testing Foundation
Arun Alagappan, President Emcee: Nacole Palmer
Founder and President of Advantage Testing Tutor at Advantage Testing

Lauren Frank Arun Alagappan

Director of Marketing and Investor Relations at Value Insight Partners President of the Advantage Testing Foundation

J. Tomilson Hill, Treasurer

Kate Rudolph
Freshman at MIT
Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group
Ninth Place at Math Prize for Girls 2009

Martha Minow, Vice President

Gene Meyer
Dean of Harvard Law School
Director of Strategic Accounts in Digital Media
at Akamai Technologies
Dr. John E. Sexton, Vice President
President of NYU
Dr. Tal Rabin
Head of Cryptography Research Group at IBM Watson Research Center
Board of Advisors, Math Prize for Girls
Dr. Ravi Boppana
Co-director of Mathematics at Advantage Testing 2:45 pm
Keynote Lecture:
Dr. Ioana Dumitriu “Mathematics at Work in the Cosmos”
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan
Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University
Dr. Maria Klawe
President of Harvey Mudd College
3:15 pm
B rief I ntermission
Richard Rusczyk
Founder and President of Art of Problem Solving
3:25 pm
Dr. Michael Sipser Presentation of Honorable Mention Awards
Head of Mathematics Department at MIT

Dr. Gigliola Staffilani

3:45 pm
Professor of Mathematics at MIT
Tiebreak Round and Presentation of Top Ten Awards
Announcer: Dr. Ravi Boppana
Director of the Math Prize for Girls
Dr. Lauren Williams
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley
First Place: $25,000
Second Place: $10,000
Dr. Joseph Woo
Third Place: $5,000
Co-director of Mathematics at Advantage Testing
Fourth Place: $2,000
Fifth to Tenth Places: $1,000
Dr. Melanie Matchett Wood
Youth Prize: $1,000
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford

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