IMO / EGMO Reports

Michael Ma: IMO 2023 Report

The 2^(3!)th IMO was held in Chiba, Japan from the 2nd to the 13th of July. The travel cohort consisted of Ross, Josie, Kevin, Jamie as well as the wonderful NZIMO team; they are:  NZL1 — Dawn Chen NZL2 — Boning Dai NZL3 — Eric Liang NZL4 …Read more

Haotian Wang: IMO 2023 Report

This year, the IMO was held in Chiba, Japan at the start of July. There were 618 contestants from 112 participating countries. New Zealand placed 64th equal in the world at the 64th IMO which was intentional (we could've got at least 2nd in the world but chose not …Read more

Dawn Chen: IMO 2023 Report

Pre-IMO training “Tell me where I went wrong?”- Ross towards this elegant mathematical gibberish Mocks After a period of anxious anticipation, the pre-IMO training officially started! To kick things off, we received a briefing on …Read more

Boning Dai: IMO 2023 Report

Days -7 to -3: The team trains at Auckland University. I do alright on the mocks, filling me with unfounded confidence for the real IMO. Day -2: I arrived at the airport at 5:30 am, intending to sleep on the flight. Before boarding, we purchase a sheep labeled …Read more

James Xu: IMO 2022 Report

June 2022: IMO pre-training and mock 1,2 Similarly to last year, we had two mock exams before I left. Since I was better prepared this year, it went relatively well. However, I learned a lesson on my mock exams to write down everything I came up with and my ideas, because no …Read more

Brian Zhao: IMO 2022 Report

The 63nd IMO was held in Oslo, Norway. It was truly exciting to travel so f a r from home and be among so many talented young mathematicians that I have only met on Discord before. The legendary members and staff of the NZ team, Ross, Josie, May, Grady, Eric2, Eric3, Brena, …Read more

Eric Lee: IMO 2022 Report

The experience details you might not care about: The experience was really cool. Not literally, Oslo's weather was nice. The most memorable thing was their smoked salmon, it was so good I had some every day. It was my first time seeing so many people from other …Read more

For the first time in the last three years, the IMO was held in person, in Oslo, Norway. It was a great deal of fun. This is a report on what myself and the NZ team got up to. Christchurch “Your name is NZL-1” - Ross My name is NZL-1, from when I get …Read more