Central European Mathematics Olympiad

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The Central European Mathematical Olympiad, or MEMO for short, is considered the successor to the Austrian-Polish Mathematical Competition (ÖPMW) and is a cross-national mathematics competition .

The Central European countries Croatia, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic took part in the first MEMO 2007 in Eisenstadt ( Austria ). Germany and Hungary initially only sent an observer, although they were allowed to start.

Since then, the MEMO has taken place annually: Germany and Hungary took part in 2008 and since Lithuania first took part in the MEMO 2014, the target group of the competition now consists of ten countries. Belarus also took part as a guest at MEMO 2017 for the first time.

Structure of competition

Each participating country can send up to six students to the MEMO. There are two restrictions. First, none of the students must have attended the IMO in the same year . Second, in the following year, he must still have the possibility of participating in the IMO.

There is both an individual and a team competition. Each student writes a 5-hour individual exam on the first day of the competition. The next day, the 5-hour team retreat is on the program.

Selection process

In Germany, the six best participants in levels 10 and 11 in the youth training mathematics (JuMa) funding program , unless they take part in the International Mathematical Olympiad in the same year, form the team for the Central European Mathematical Olympiad. The Austrian team consists of the six best participants in the ÖMO who have neither qualified for the IMO nor are they already in the eighth grade.

history

The team competition has had the following results in the previous 13 events:

year place 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2007 Eisenstadt , Austria Poland Croatia Czech Republic
2008 Olomouc , Czech Republic Poland Hungary Germany
2009 Poznań , Poland Poland Hungary Germany
2010 Strečno , Slovakia Hungary Poland Germany
2011 Varaždin , Croatia Poland Hungary Germany
2012 Solothurn , Switzerland Poland Hungary Croatia
2013 Veszprém , Hungary Poland Hungary Germany
2014 Dresden , Germany Poland Hungary Croatia
2015 Koper , Slovenia Croatia Poland Hungary
2016 Vöcklabruck , Austria Croatia Poland Czech Republic
2017 Vilnius , Lithuania Poland Slovenia Hungary
2018 Bielsko-Biała , Poland Ukraine Croatia Hungary
2019 Pardubice , Czech Republic Poland Hungary Germany

In 2008, the special feature was that three teams achieved the full number of points in the team competition.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathematics Olympiad for schoolchildren starts. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017 ; accessed on September 11, 2017 .

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