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While the World Cup fever has infected most Germans, IUB is involved in a different high performance event: the International Mathematical Olympiade (IMO). In July 2009, the 50th IMO will be held in Bremen on the IUB campus. A team of students, teachers, professors and volunteers are already busy preparing the event.
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On Thursday, June 22, Bremen organizers and experts from all over Germany gather on the IUB campus to discuss the preparation for the event. One important goal: How to encourage high school students to delve into mathematics and to develop a taste for competition. The planning committee, including Bremen's senator Willi Lemke, agree that the highlight event "IMO 2009" should have a lasting impact on mathematics activities in the Bremen area for high school students at all levels.
For the past several years, IUB mathematics has already supported high school students with summer activities that showed the fun side of mathematics. The department also supports the German Mathematical Olympics team. During the past six days, June 16-21, Mathematics at IUB hosted the German team to IMO 2006 on campus. The high school students were trained by the experts at IUB for this year's contest.
IMO is an annual mathematics competition for high school students. The 2006 IMO will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from July 6 -18. About 80 countries send teams of 6 students. IUB mathematics offered to run the final of six training camps. IUB professors Michael Stoll and Dierk Schleicher and Dr. Alexei Belov, visiting professor at IUB, ran the camp. A highlight within all this exercise was the "MatBoj" competition, a "mathematical battle" between two teams trying to solve a given set of problems.
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The first IMO took place in 1956 in Romania. This year's Mathematical Olympiad, the 47th IMO, will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contestants are high school students. The next three IMOs will be held in Vietnam (2007), Spain (2008), and Bremen (2009).
The examination consists of 6 problems. While the entire IMO takes 13 days, the actual contest problems are solved 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.
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... offers study programs for Bachelor and Master 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 now study in graduate programs from renowned universities like Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Courant Institute (NY)Cornell, Cambridge, Göttingen, London School of Economics, MIT, Princeton, Oxford, Stanford and Yale.
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