New Zealand Maths Olympiad Committee online

Greetings from the Netherlands! With the second day of competition having taken place yesterday we are now all together again in Amsterdam, and I’m free to write about the events so far. The IMO is moving into its next phase: Ilya and I will be busy with co-ordination, while the team and Stephen go on excursions. Today they will go cycling, while we will co-ordinate problem 3 in the morning, and problems 4 and 5 in the afternoon.

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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:

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The team to represent New Zealand at the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad in Amsterdam, the Netherlands was announced today. It will consist of

• James Allen, Kristin School
• Malcolm Granville, Auckland Grammar School
• Benedict Morrissey, Garin College
• Arun Shanmuganathan, Auckland International College
• Tom Yan, Auckland Grammar School
• Robert Zhang, Auckland Grammar School

with

• Ha Young Shin, Christchurch Boys’ High School

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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