Entries invited for regional mathematical olympiad

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsTo spot talented students who have the capacity for original and critical thinking and encourage them to choose a career in mathematics and to select an Indian team a regional mathematical olympiad (RMO) will be organised by National Board for Higher Mathematics on December 2. It will be held from 1 pm to 4 pm in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kottarakkara, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam, Irinjalakkuda, Thrissur, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Kannur and Kasaragod. Proposals for new centres will be considered. Students of standard XI and XII and a few exceptionally talented students of standard X can apply. The questions will be quite challenging.There is no prescribed syllabus, the thrust areas being geometry, number theory, algebra and combinatorics. Five toppers of RMO will be awarded a cash prize of `2000 each sponsored by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) and will be awarded Professor C S Venkataraman Memorial Prizes and other attractive gifts.The principals of recognised schools should forward the list of participants indicating their names, medium of instruction, class, residential address, phone numbers, e-mail and the centre along with a registration fee of `30 each by a DD drawn in favour of regional co-ordinator, INMO, payable at SBT, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) campus branch.Applications endorsed by the authorities should reach joint co-ordinator (INMO), P M Mathew, Department of Mathematics, St Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Calicut-673 008, Ph:0495-6515011 (O) 2287789 (R), e-mail: [email protected] by October 25For old Q-papers and an information brochure, write along with `25-stamped, self-addressed envelope of size at least 10 x 8  to A  Vijayakumar, regional co-ordinator, INMO Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin - 682 022 Phone: 0484-2577518 (O) 0484-2862462 (O) e-mail: [email protected] or visit www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/olympiads.first published:September 22, 2012, 08:52 ISTlast updated:September 22, 2012, 08:52 IST 
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