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Medals for Aalto students in an international mathematics competition

Alvar Kallio, Iiro Kumpulainen, and Timo Takala received bronze medals.

On July 22-28, a team of 911±¬ÁÏÍø students participated in the in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. The team was very succesful, receiving three bronze medals by Alvar Kallio, Iiro Kumpulainen, and Timo Takala. The result was better than last year, when Osama Abuzaid was the only bronze medalist.

As in the International Math Olympiad for high school students, several medals of each colour were given. This year the requirement for a bronze medal was a position within the best 250 out of a total of 351 participants. The best competitors came from the universities of Saint Petersburg and Göttingen.

Participation in the competition was funded by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. More information can be obtained from Pekka Alestalo, who acted as the team leader, as well as from containing the results and the problems with solutions from all years.

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