Distinguished Protégés – Inaugural Class of 2020–23

Sarthak Dattatray Dhobale [with his mentor, Yaashaa Golovanov] is an incoming freshman at Princeton University for the class of 2029, where he has received a full scholarship to study UG in pure mathematics. He is the first Indian protégé of AMMOC, who was recruited in October 2020. He did research projects on topics such as category theory, groups, rings, fields, linear algebra, matrix groups as manifolds, Abel’s impossibility theorem, and analysis on manifolds. He typed his research work, spanning over 200 pages, in LaTeX. He was instrumental in decisive victories of Team-AMMOC in prestigious math tournaments PUMAC (Princeton), CMM (Caltech), SMT (Stanford), and BMT (Berkeley). He has won over 60 international honors and distinctions in the prestigious contests of the USA, Canada, Australia, India, and Asia. In particular, he has qualified for the USAMO (2025) with a remarkable score of 275.5 [145.5 on AMC + 13 on AIME]. Since 2021, he has won 14 distinctions in various international contests of CEMC at the University of Waterloo, 4 from the Canadian Mathematical Society, 4 in contests of the Australian Mathematics Trust, two distinguished honorable mentions in algebra and geometry papers of BMT (Berkeley) and one in SMT (Stanford), and three distinctions in AMC 12 A and 12 B. He is the most scholarly cultivation of AMMOC. Certificates corresponding to each one of his achievements are available at his academic website.

Tisya Chandrashekhar Rawat, with Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne. She is a sophomore at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), class of 2027, with a full scholarship for a major in mathematics. She is currently doing her directed research study in calculus of variations and PDE. The document “Foundational Studies in Mathematics and Physical Sciences” describes Tisya’s scientific learning with Golovanov. When Caltech accepted her, after two weeks, she received a FedEx package that contained a letter of exceptional appreciation from Caltech stating that “We were really impressed by your research on classical theorems.” Her current GPA at CALTECH is 4.0.

Konstantinos Charalampous, a Cyprus citizen and a sophomore at the University of Chicago, class of 2027, for undergraduate studies in mathematics. The University of Chicago has given him a full scholarship. A citizen of Cyprus who won Honourable Mention in the most prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). He also received admission offers and scholarships from Imperial College London, University of Toronto, and University of Saint Andrews Also, as an acknowledgement, here you can find a letter of appreciation for AMMOC’s founder from the University of Chicago. Currently, he is learning advanced undergraduate courses with his mentor, Yaashaa Golovanov, and the objective is to prepare him for his next goal—the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Contest—the most prestigious of all undergraduate mathematical contests. His current GPA at the UChicago is 4.0. 

Adelina Patlatii is 19, a Moldovan citizen and currently a sophomore for UG studies in Mathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computer Science at the University of Toronto, class of 2026. She received “University of Toronto’s International Scholar Award.” She was also offered admission by two premier US universities, namely, Cornell University and University of Wisconsin. In Europe, she was offered admission by the prestigious Amsterdam University and Jacob University. She won two times Bronze Medal in the prestigious European Girls Mathematical Olympiad. She won a silver medal in the Iranian Geometry Olympiad. She continues to excel in her undergraduate education at the University of Toronto. Her current GPA at the UToronto is 3.97.

Nihad Hashimov is a citizen of Azerbaijan and is an incoming freshman at KAIST [on a full scholarship] to study UG in math, class of 2029. He was admitted to AMMOC under the category of talented but disadvantaged student. He joined AMMOC in December 2023 and won honors such as the Certificate of Excellence for qualifying to compete on AIME, where he scored 8. He won a distinguished honorable mention at the Berkeley Math Tournament, an honorable mention again at BMT, and two honorable mentions—here and here—for his remarkable performances in algebra and geometry papers at SMT of Stanford. He was one of the highly contributing members in CMM (Caltech), SMT (Stanford), and BMT (Berkeley). He won distinction in the Australian math competition and is currently qualified to attend the TST of his national team for the IMO. As part of his research apprenticeship, he also did works in mathematical analysis and group theory, typing over 50 pages of his research work on par with those done at the REU of the University of Chicago. He also published his original solutions in the Mathematical Reflections and Crux Mathematicorum, a journal of the Canadian Mathematical Society.