Graduate students and PIMS PDF on winning team for 2012 MIT Mystery Hunt

A group of mathematics graduate students from Calgary, together with PIMS PDF David Roe, played on the winning team of the 2012 MIT Mystery Hunt last weekend. The Mystery Hunt is a huge annual puzzle competition held at MIT; here are the 2012 puzzle questions. The solution to the 2012 puzzle was found by the Manic Sages. The Calgary contingent of the Manic Sages included graduate students Karin Arikushi, Aaron Christie, Diane Quan, Max Liprandi and Colin Weir. Their participation was made possible by David Roe, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) at the University of Calgary, member of the PIMS Collaborative Research Group in L-functions and Number Theory, and MIT alumnus. Besides finding the 2012 coin (or cube, in this case), the Manic Sages have earned the right to create the 2013 MIT Mystery Hunt!