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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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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.

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New Zealand now participates in the Australian Mathematical Olympiad, held in February each year. The results of the 2011 AMO were announced this week, and the training squad has done very well, netting a total of eleven awards: two gold, four silver and five bronze.

Our award winners were:
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The training squad took part in Round Two of the British Mathematical Olympiad in December. The following students scored 15 or more out of 40, and are listed among the top 35 overall on the BMOC site:

• Malcolm Granville, Auckland Grammar School (39)
• Tom Yan, Auckland Grammar School (33)
• Robert Zhang, Auckland Grammar School (28)
• Arun Chockalingam Shanmuganathan, Auckland International College (20)
• Natalia Chen, St Andrew’s College (18)

Congratulations to all, and again a big thanks to the BMOC for allowing us to take part.