UK IMO Register: Olympiad reports

International Mathematical Olympiad

Each year from 1991 onwards, the Team Leader has written a report on that year’s IMO for general distribution. All of these are available here (as produced by the Leaders without any subsequent editing for content; the versions published in the UKMT Yearbooks and elsewhere have generally been edited and cut in one way or another), as are some reports from previous years and an unofficial report on IMO 2007 by Dominic Yeo. I am still seeking reports from 1980 to 1983 inclusive and 1986 to complete the collection. Additional unofficial reports are also welcome.

• Reports from 1967 to 1974 were published in Science Teacher. I have scanned them in and made them available here. I have been unable to locate the copyright holder of this periodical; if you believe you own the copyright, please let me know.
• Reports from 1967 and 1969 were also published in The Mathematical Gazette. I have scanned them in; by the kind permission of the Mathematical Association, they appear here.
• 9th IMO, Cetinje, Yugoslavia, 3–12 July 1967, report and solutions by N. A. Routledge in The Science Teacher.
• 9th IMO, Cetinje, Yugoslavia, 3–13 July 1967, report by N. A. Routledge in The Mathematical Gazette (original version available from JSTOR).
• 10th IMO, Moscow, USSR, July 1968, report by N. A. Routledge and David Monk in New Science Teacher.
• 11th IMO, Bucharest, Romania, July 1969, report by F. R. Watson and L. Beeson in New Science Teacher.
• 11th IMO, Bucharest, Romania, July 1969, report by F. R. Watson in The Mathematical Gazette (original version available from JSTOR).
• 12th IMO, Hungary, 1970, report by Bryan Thwaites and Margaret Hayman and solutions in Science Teacher.
• 13th IMO, Zilina, Czechoslovakia, July 1971, report by Frank Budden with photograph by Peter Reynolds and solutions in Science Teacher.
• 14th IMO, Poland, July 1972, report submitted by the Awards Committee of the Mathematical Association in Science Teacher.
• 15th IMO, Moscow, USSR, July 1973, report by F. J. Budden and solutions in Science Teacher.
• 16th IMO, German Democratic Republic, July 1974, report by David Monk in Science Teacher.
• Reports from 1975 to 1979 were published in Mathematical Spectrum. I have scanned them in; by the kind permission of the Applied Probability Trust, they appear here.
• 17th IMO, Bulgaria, 1975, report by John Durran. (A detailed analysis by Robert Lyness of Question 3 from 1975 appears in the Mathematical Gazette, volume 60 (June 1976), number 412, pages 90–99, available from JSTOR.)
• 18th IMO, Lienz, Austria, July 1976, report by Colin Goldsmith.
• 19th IMO, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, July 1977, report by Terry Heard.
• 20th IMO, Romania, 1978, report by John Hersee.
• See also Alan Dix’s memories of IMO 1978 (on his website).
• 21st IMO, London, United Kingdom, 1979, report by Colin Goldsmith.
• I would be interested to hear of any other published or unpublished reports on the UK at the IMO that may have appeared relating to the IMOs of 1967 to 1990.
• Unofficial event, Mersch, Luxembourg, 1980; I don’t have a report.
• Unofficial event, Mariehamn, Finland, 1980; I don’t have a report.
• 22nd IMO, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1981; I don’t have a report.
• 23rd IMO, Budapest, Hungary, 1982; I don’t have a report.
• 24th IMO, Paris, France, 1983; I don’t have a report.
• The 1984 and 1990 reports were provided by David Monk, and scanned in.
• 25th IMO, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 29 June–11 July 1984, report by David Monk.
• The 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989 reports were provided by the DfES, and scanned in.
• 26th IMO, Joutsa, Finland, 1–11 July 1985, report by Robert Lyness and solutions.
• 27th IMO, Warsaw, Poland, 1986; I don’t have a report.
• 28th IMO, Havana, Cuba, 5–16 July 1987, report by Robert Lyness.
• 29th IMO, Canberra, Australia, 9–21 July 1988, report by David Monk.
• 30th IMO, Braunschweig, Federal Republic of Germany, 13–24 July 1989, report by David Monk.
• 31st IMO, Beijing, China, 9–19 July 1990, report by Peter Shiu.
• The 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995 reports were provided by Tony Gardiner, and scanned in.
• 32nd IMO, Sigtuna, Sweden, 12–23 July 1991, report by Tony Gardiner.
• 33rd IMO, Moscow, Russia, 10–21 July 1992, report by Tony Gardiner.
• The TeX source of the 1993 report here is derived from the printed report and from the TeX source of an abridged version provided by Adam McBride; it requires additional macro files ccplain.tex and ccdef.tex.
• 34th IMO, Instanbul, Turkey, 13–24 July 1993, report by Adam McBride (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 35th IMO, Hong Kong, 8–20 July 1994, report by Tony Gardiner.
• 36th IMO, York (Toronto), Canada, 13–25 July 1995, report by Tony Gardiner.
• The TeX sources of the 1996 and 1997 reports and the Word source of the 1998 report were provided by Adam McBride. The TeX sources of the 1996 and 1997 reports require additional macro files ccplain.tex and ccdef.tex.
• 37th IMO, Bombay, India, 5–17 July 1996, report by Adam McBride (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 38th IMO, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 18–31 July 1997, report by Adam McBride (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 39th IMO, Taipei, Taiwan, 10–21 July 1998, report by Adam McBride (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• The TeX sources of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 reports were provided by Imre Leader. I did the conversions to HTML.
• 40th IMO, Bucharest, Romania, 10–22 July 1999, report by Imre Leader (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 41st IMO, Taejon, South Korea, 13–25 July 2000, report by Imre Leader (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 42nd IMO, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1–14 July 2001, report by Imre Leader (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• The Word source of the 2002 report and the LaTeX sources of the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 reports were provided by Geoff Smith. I did the conversions to HTML.
• 43rd IMO, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 19–30 July 2002, report by Geoff Smith (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 44th IMO, Tokyo, Japan, 7–19 July 2003, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 45th IMO, Athens, Greece, 6–18 July 2004, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 46th IMO, Mérida, Mexico, 8–19 July 2005, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 47th IMO, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 6–18 July 2006, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• A documentary about the UK preparation for and participation in IMO 2006, Beautiful Young Minds, was broadcast on BBC2 at 9pm on Sunday 14 October 2007; see further information on Plus.
• 48th IMO, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19–31 July 2007, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 48th IMO, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19–31 July 2007, unofficial report by Dominic Yeo.
• 49th IMO, Madrid, Spain, 10–22 July 2008, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 50th IMO, Bremen, Germany, 10–22 July 2009, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).

Balkan Mathematical Olympiad

The UK has competed in the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad from 2005 onwards, with the 2008 team being a joint UK and Ireland team; reports for 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 are available here.

• The Word source of the 2005 and 2007 reports was provided by Robin Bhattacharyya, that of the 2008 report was provided by Adrian Sanders, and that of the 2009 report was provided by Vesna Kadelburg. I did the conversion to HTML.
• 22nd Balkan MO, Iași, Romania, 4–10 May 2005, report by Robin Bhattacharyya (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 23rd Balkan MO, Agros, Cyprus, 27 April–3 May 2006; I don’t have a report.
• 24th Balkan MO, Rhodes, Greece, 26 April–2 May 2007, report by Robin Bhattacharyya (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• An unofficial report on the 2007 Balkan MO by Tom Lovering and Dominic Yeo is available from the Balkan MO 2007 Facebook group (for registered users only).
• 25th Balkan MO, Ohrid, Macedonia, 4–10 May 2008, report by Adrian Sanders (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• 26th Balkan MO, Kragujevac, Serbia, 28 April–4 May 2009, report by Vesna Kadelburg (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).

Romanian Master in Mathematics

The UK has competed in the Romanian Master in Mathematics from 2008 onwards; reports are available here.

• The LaTeX source of the 2008 report was provided by Geoff Smith. I did the conversion to HTML.
• 1st RMM, Bucharest, Romania, 7–11 February 2008, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
• The LaTeX source of the 2009 report was provided by Adrian Sanders. I did the conversion to HTML.
• 2nd RMM, Bucharest, Romania, 26 February–2 March 2009, report by Adrian Sanders (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).

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