Two gold medals in Bremen

The Australian team for the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad did quite well this year, scoring two gold medals, one silver, and two bronze.  Unofficially, the Australian team placed 23rd out of 102 countries. I myself was at the event, giving a talk at the celebratory event for the 50th anniversary of the Olympiad.

2009 Australian Olympiad teams announced

The Australian mathematics and science Olympiad teams were announced at Parliament House a few weeks ago.  The maths team will train with the British team at Trinity College Cambridge in the week before IMO and compete for the Mathematics Ashes, which Australia won during the inaugural event in 2008. (Thanks to Peter Taylor for the [...]

Math skills suffer in U.S., study finds

The New York Times today has an article entitled  “Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds“, based on a study to be published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.  The study found that mathematically gifted children in the U.S. were not represented as often in mathematics competitions, camps, and similar activities as in [...]

AMC and IOI results

The Australian Mathematics Trust has just announced the results of this year’s Australian Mathematics Competition, as well as the results of the Australian team in this year’s Informatics Olympiad, where the Aussie team picked up a gold, two silvers, and a bronze, their best showing to date there.  Congratulations to all participants for their efforts! [...]

Australian 2008 IMO results

The Australian Mathematics Trust reports that Australian IMO team has just won 5 silver medals and one bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Madrid, with a country ranking of 19th out of 97; this is Australia’s best showing in a few years.  Congrats to the Aussie team for their efforts (and for the [...]

2008 Mathematics Ashes won by Australia

The Australian Mathematics Trust reports that the inaugural Mathematics Ashes has been won by the Australian IMO team.  (Thanks to Peter Taylor for the news.)

7:30 report on Tuesday

I’ve just been informed by Peter Taylor from the AMT that there should be a piece airing in tonight’s Tuesday’s 7:30 report on the Australian IMO team that is flying out to Lisbon today.  The transcript (and video) is now available here. One of the members of that team, Max Menzies (who was also on [...]

Mathematics Ashes

The Australian and UK mathematics trusts have set up a “Mathematics Ashes“, in analogy with the well-known cricketing counterpart, for the Australian and British IMO teams to compete for each year, as part of their planned joint training sessions, thus injecting the traditional Aussie values of sport and rivalry with the Poms into the competition. [...]

Australian Olympiad Teams 2008

The Australian teams for the 2008 International Olympiads in Informatics (IOI) and in Mathematics (IMO), which will be held in August in Cairo, Egypt and in July in Madrid, Spain respectively, were formally announced on Thursday at Parliament House in Canberra. Some statistics for Australia’s IMO performance over the years – it started competing in [...]