INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN

German "Mathematics Team" on Campus

   

From Friday, June 24 until Monday, June 27 Mathematics at IUB hosts the German team to the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) 2005 on campus. The high school students will be trained by the experts here at IUB for this year's contest.

[ Jun 21, 2005]  IMO is an annual mathematics competition for high school students, held every year at a different location. This July, it will be held in Mérida, Yucatán, México. About 80 countries send teams of 6 students. IUB mathematics offered to run the final training camp. The training camp will be run by IUB professors Dierk Schleicher and Michael Stoll, and by Alexei Belov, visiting professor at IUB in 2003. Michael Stoll has won two Gold Medals at IMO's himself, Alexei Belov has been a trainer of the highly successful Russian IMO team for many years, and Dierk
Schleicher is among the responsible organizers of the 50th IMO, to take place 2009 in Bremen.

One part of the training session will consist of a "Matboj" competition, a "mathematical battle" between two teams trying to solve a given set of problems. This kind of competition is popular in Russia and has been successfully introduced to IUB undergraduates by Alexei Belov and Dierk Schleicher.

Mathematics at IUB offers study programs for Bachelor and PhD students. The undergraduate mathematics curriculum at IUB is designed to prepare students for work towards a PhD in the
strongest graduate programs worldwide. IUB graduates from the classes of 2004 and 2005 have been quite successful with the continuation of their education: they have offers from graduate
programs at renowned universities like Berkeley, New York University, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Cambridge, MIT, Princeton, Oxford, Stanford, Yale, the London School of Economics, or
Göttingen university.



Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)
The first IMO took place in 1956 in Romania. This year's Mathematical Olympiad, the 46th IMO, is organized by The Ministry of Public Education of México. Constestants must be under the age of 20 and must not have any post-secondary school education.

The examination consists of 6 problems. It is held over two consecutive days; the contestants have 4.5 hours to solve 3 problems on each day. The problems chosen are from various areas of secondary school mathematics, broadly classifiable as geometry, number theory, algebra and combinatorics.

In 2009, the 50th IMO will be held in Bremen on the IUB campus.

 


Author: Dagmar Becker. Last updated on 24.06.2005. © 2005 International University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen. All rights reserved. No unauthorized reproduction. http://www.iu-bremen.de. For all general inquiries, please call IUB at +49 421 200-4100 or mail to iub@iu-bremen.de.