It’s been over a year since the Australian contingent has seen each other face-to-face and it’s been a tough and somewhat isolated year of training online. While we have been quite protected from the coronavirus on this island of ours down under, we have not been spared snap lockdowns and border closures between our states.
Hi my name is Will and I represented Australia as AUS 4 in the 61st International Mathematical Olympiad which was, for the first time ever, held remotely from St. Petersburg, Russia. I’ll be telling you a bit about the Australian team’s experience at the IMO this year. Before the commencement of the IMO competition days,
Remember last year, how Joshua, the team leader for 2019, forced me to write the first IOI blog post and then claimed that I wanted to write it? Well, this year, I was *persuaded* to do it. There is a very big distinction to make here. Once again, we see a prime example of how
Over a nail-biting 40 hours, the scoreboard for EGMO 2020 was populated with scores from this year’s 52 participating countries. It was certainly fun sitting at the top of the leaderboard for such a long time while all of Europe slept. In the end, it was only in the final hour that medal cut-offs could
With Day 1 of the contest starting at noon, the Australian team didn’t stay up until midnight to watch the EGMO 2020 virtual opening ceremony as it went live. However, we did all enjoy getting together online in the morning to watch teams from all around the world flash by on our screens to mark
Prepare for our competitions with our Powerpoints. Work through the problems and their solutions with your class.
In April, four Australian high school students will be competing in the 2020 European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO), an international mathematics competition for female school-aged students. This is the third year that Australia will be represented, with this year’s Olympiad being held in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands on 15–21 April. The Australian EGMO team was
Today started with a ferry cruise to The Queensland University of Technology Engineering building then…
Today is the day of mentorship with professionals in fields all across computer science, maths and…
Today is the day of workshops! Each being 2.5 hours, there is lots to do and lots to learn!
Brain games for breakfast here on this beautiful campus! Learning all about algorithms.
After arriving last night and this morning, the students of the 2020 DigIT program all were excited to start this weeks action packed camp!
The 2003 BH Neumann Awardees were Edward Brennan, Michael Deakin and Lorraine Mottershead. They were presented with their awards at separate ceremonies and their citations follow. Edward (Ted) Brennan A BH Neumann Award was presented to Edward Robert (Ted) Brennan at the Quay West Hotel, Brisbane, on Friday 09 May 2003. Ted Brennan creates a
The 2001 BH Neumann Awardees were Andy Edwards, Michael Evans and Alice Thomas. They were presented with their awards at separate ceremonies and their citations follow. Alice Thomas On Saturday 26 May, Professor Neumann presented a BH Neumann Award to Alice Thomas at a function in the Scarth Room of University House, Canberra. Alice was born in
During the 5-hour long layover in Doha, Kevin made many of our past AIIO sets public, and the team quickly pulled out their trusty laptops, and began racing each other to solve these problems as quickly as possible.
