With just a week to go until the opening ceremony, the team gathered at Grafton Hall (University of Auckland) yesterday for a weekend of pre-departure training. Read more »
Our first step in choosing the team to represent New Zealand at the 2012 IMO in Argentina is to choose 24 students to attend a week long training camp in Auckland in January. These students will be chosen using the 2011 Camp Selection Problems (pdf, 111k). Read more »
The official APMO results have been released, following co-ordination in the organising country Japan, and our award tally this year is one gold, one silver, five bronze, and one honourable mention. This must surely be one of our best performances ever: among those years for which records are available (2003-2011) this is our first gold, and the first time we have received a full quota of awards (the APMO regulations cap the total number of gold, silver and bronze awards each country may receive at seven). Our award winners were:
The team to represent New Zealand at the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad in Amsterdam, the Netherlands was announced today. It will consist of
with
as non-travelling reserve. Congratulations to all!
Earlier this month the twelve members of the training squad sat the Asia Pacific Mathematical Olympiad. The top New Zealand results are as follows:
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The selection process for each year’s IMO team begins the year before, with the Camp Selection Problems (formerly known as the “September Problems”). These are used to select 24 students for our week-long residential training camp in January. At the camp a squad of about twelve students is chosen for further training, and the final team of six is chosen from the squad in about April.
We expect to make the Camp Selection Problems available around mid-July. To help students prepare for these, and for olympiad-type mathematics competitions, we will be posting two series of problem sets: the monthly problems, and the squad training assignments.