Blogs

AMT staff

January 24, 2020

Today started with a ferry cruise to The Queensland University of Technology Engineering building then...

Day 4 – Mentorship!

AMT staff

January 23, 2020

Today is the day of mentorship with professionals in fields all across computer science, maths and...

Day 3 And It’s Workshops Galore!

AMT staff

January 22, 2020

Today is the day of workshops! Each being 2.5 hours, there is lots to do and lots to learn!

Brain Games For Breakfast on Day 2

AMT staff

January 21, 2020

Brain games for breakfast here on this beautiful campus! Learning all about algorithms.

Hello, Hello and Welcome to Day 1 of digIT

AMT staff

January 20, 2020

After arriving last night and this morning, the students of the 2020 DigIT program all were excited to start this weeks action packed camp!

2003 BH NEUMANN AWARD RECIPIENTS

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October 25, 2019

The 2003 BH Neumann Awardees were Edward Brennan, Michael Deakin and Lorraine Mottershead. They were presented with their awards at...

2001 BH NEUMANN AWARD RECIPIENTS

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amtmarketing

October 25, 2019

The 2001 BH Neumann Awardees were Andy Edwards, Michael Evans and Alice Thomas. They were presented with their awards at separate ceremonies...

Racing home on keyboards

Joshua Lau

August 11, 2019

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.

Drama to a Close

Joshua Lau

August 10, 2019

We woke up to some drama and another nervous wait this morning... Much to our relief, though more points were awarded, the medal cutoffs, were confirmed as not having changed, so it was official - Australia has won a Gold, a Silver, and two Bronze medals at this year's IOI!

Camels and Horses

Joshua Lau

August 9, 2019

With the competition done and dusted, today was the second full excursion day of this IOI. Off to a late start - due to the weather (though I reckon everyone could have done with it anyway), the leaders visited a 12th century historic village (called Qala). This village was an archaeological site, with many ancient relics, and reconstructions of historic houses.

Contest day 2: A clean sweep!

Joshua Lau

August 8, 2019

I am writing this completely overjoyed by the performance of our IOI team for this year! Based on provisional results (subject to changes resulting from appeals, though these are usually few), Angus has won a Gold medal, Timmy a Silver medal, and Ryan and Tunan Bronze medals, placing 9th, 80th, 99th, and 150th at the IOI!

On a roll

Joshua Lau

August 7, 2019

It was fascinating to see exhibitions of how traditional Azerbaijani carpets have been hand-woven throughout the centuries: our guide insisted that no authentic Azerbaijani carpet is ever woven by machine. In particular, we were told that an experienced craftsperson can only weave 5cm of length of these carpets in a single day!

Contest day 1: Non-pizza lunch in pizza boxes

Joshua Lau

August 6, 2019

The first competition day was the main event of today, which was particularly exciting, as it marked the first time Ryan, Timmy and Tunan sat an IOI exam. One of the things that sets the IOI apart from other olympiads is the existence of a live scoreboard, which is updated in real-time during the competition...

#practice #snack #koala

Joshua Lau

August 5, 2019

Students tested mundane things such as the support for C++ language features and feedback given by the system, to the more practical, such as timing how long it takes to receive a printout, how long it takes to be escorted to / from the bathroom, and evaluating the tastiness of the snacks that can be ordered through the competition system.

Koala-ing ’round

Joshua Lau

August 4, 2019

Today marks the official arrivals day for the IOI! Kevin, Donna and I spent a rather eventful morning looking for SIM cards for our phones, while students met and bonded with members of the Croatian team over Uno.

Roaming Baku

Joshua Lau

August 3, 2019

Fidan led us through the Baku Metro, and along a tour of Icherisheher (the old city centre), where we went up the 12th century Maiden Tower and saw an excellent view of Baku.

Departure

Joshua Lau

August 2, 2019

The wait at the airport saw the team attempting to maximise the volume of water collected from the faulty tap near gate 10. We also enjoyed Kevin's amazing commentary on touchscreen air hockey played by two toddlers. It was a true shame that I forgot to take a video of that despite being the keeper of the GoPro.

Timmy’s birthday

Joshua Lau

August 1, 2019

Today is my last full day with the IOI team, and what a week it has been. Following a five hour exam where I saw my first splash of the elusive CMS green colour (indicating that we had gotten a full score of 100 on a problem), we went to a nice Cuban cafe where we were joined by Ray Li, who came to pass along some words of wisdom regarding how to handle big exams.

Concave corners

Joshua Lau

July 31, 2019

Getting subtasks was a focus for the whole team, with the risk of push-ups if we missed points we should have gotten. Fortunately, everyone was able to score a good amount of points on all the problems and we were spared from having to do push-ups.

Black or Cyan?

Joshua Lau

July 30, 2019

Tonight's game was based off of the first question of today's exam -- given a rectangular grid of squares coloured either black or cyan, find an arrangement using the least number of non-overlapping rectangles which covers all cyan squares and doesn't cover any black squares.

Wet, Wet, Wet

Joshua Lau

July 29, 2019

CEOI day 2 was the trial exam for today. The problems were interesting and more difficult than those in the previous trial exams. After the trial exam we, had our customary frisbee session. This time, we had a person in the middle of the cycle / circle trying to fail the others and replace them.

Phones down, thumbs up

Joshua Lau

July 28, 2019

Today was the rest day between the two CEOI days, our rest being a different 5-hour exam... After the exam, we decided to play a bipartite graph version of frisbee, before switching to the even easier cycle graph version, a phenomena Kevin likened to solving subtasks.

Let the games begin

Joshua Lau

July 27, 2019

And by guessing the great number of 1011337101 I gained the highest score in the sacred blog game, and hence the privilege of writing the blog post for Day 1...

“Can I write it?”

Joshua Lau

July 26, 2019

This blog post accounts for the highlights of the IOI team's first day of training at the pre-departure camp ,...

IMO 2019: counting down…

IMO 2019

Angelo

July 11, 2019

Welcome! Here is a summary of the recent trip to Bath for the 2019 IMO, counting down to The Mathematics...

Olympiad team’s success highlights bright future for women in maths

amtmarketing

May 14, 2019

24 April 2019 This month, four talented Aussie girls represented Australia in the 2019 European Girls Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) in...

Maths for me: Running the Challenge

Maths for me

amtmarketing

April 29, 2019

By Anna Nakos, AMC State Director, SA It is just wonderful at the start of a year to hear a...

Australia comes equal 14th at EGMO 2019!

Thanom Shaw

April 17, 2019

Coincidentally colour-coordinated in Ukrainian colours, Thanom and Michelle were up bright and early for coordination. By (late) breakfast all of...

Aus claims front row seats for contest

Thanom Shaw

April 16, 2019

(Apologies for the extensive delay for the second half of the blog posts!) The morning of Day 1 of the...

Cat statues, Mathematigerinnen and koalas – oh(pening cere)m(on)y

Thanom Shaw

April 10, 2019

After a mostly good night's sleep, broken only by Eugeniya's penchant for accidentally turning room lighting on in her sleep,...

Arrivals day and time for our koalas to come out to play

Thanom Shaw

April 9, 2019

With the arrival of 49 other teams from all over the world, it was definitely time for the koalas to...

Like nifflers in search of all things shiny

amtmarketing

April 8, 2019

Saturday morning brought more delicious breads and far too much choice with even butter requiring a decision to be made....

From Down Under to Kyiv in 24 hours

Thanom Shaw

April 7, 2019

Here are some photos and stories from our 24-hour journey from one side of the globe to the other. Super...

March Camp 2019

Thanom Shaw

April 5, 2019

The 2019 AMOC Selection School and the final bit of training for the 2019 EGMO team was held at Naamaroo, Lane...

Meet our EGMO team!

amtmarketing

March 8, 2019

Eugeniya Artemova Year 12, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, VIC Eugeniya’s love of mathematics has been nurtured by her parents from a...

Kyiv 2019, here we come!

amtmarketing

March 7, 2019

Introducing the Australian EGMO Team of 2019: Vicky Feng, Eva Ge, Grace He, Mikaela Gray (reserve), and Eugeniya Artemova! Thank...

Goodbye and thank you, Japan

AMT staff

September 7, 2018

Congratulations to the Australian team! Well done to Albert, Angus, Jacob and Jerry - you've all done a heckuva job!...

Tokyo and a whole bunch of definitions

AMT staff

September 6, 2018

After two days of hard competition yakka, the team hopped on a semi-rapid (please define ‘semi-rapid’) train into Tokyo. First...

A corner is a corner . . .isn’t it?

AMT staff

September 4, 2018

Congratulations Albert, Angus, Jacob and Jerry on completing Day 1! It’s a great competition this year with everything finely balanced...

Breaking things

AMT staff

September 2, 2018

Today started with the IOI Opening Ceremony. The event was kicked off by an introduction from the IOI 2018 animated...

A rose by any other name. . .

AMT staff

September 1, 2018

SUB-i-a-co or Sub-i-A(h)-co? The correct pronunciation of Perth’s famous north-northwesterly suburb was the subject of a debate that nearly ripped...

T-minus 45 minutes

AMT staff

September 1, 2018

Before shipping out, the team met for its traditional final pre-IOI dinner at the local curry joint in Randwick. There,...

Easy Hard Sad Happy

AMT staff

August 29, 2018

Albert, Angus, Jacob, Jerry and Marcus have been hard at pre-IOI training in Sydney since last Thursday. Today’s the last...

Detective Tom and the mystery of the blood nose(s)

AMT staff

July 12, 2018

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The flight from Munich to Cluj-Napoca ...

Heading to IMO

mikecamt

July 7, 2018

Up at 3.00am this morning for the flight to Cluj and the IMO proper after a week training with the...

The great IMO mountain race

AMT staff

July 5, 2018

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Guest blog post by Charles and Wen! "In the great Budapest mountains, before the dawn of the twenty second century,...

Long Haul Flights & Riverside Sights

AMT staff

July 2, 2018

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Saturday night saw the team members congregating in Perth, ready for a long journey to Budapest! Qantas, reliable as always,...

The Journey Begins