AoPSWiki:Current events

This is a documentation of mathematical and scientific current events on the AoPSWiki, sorted by year and month.

2008

September

• The iTest commences.

August

• The USAMTS commences; Round 1 is released.

July

• The 49th International Mathematical Olympiad is held in Spain from July 10 to July 22. More information can be viewed at the official website.

June

• The Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program is held at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. After the intensive three week program, the top students will go on to represent the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

May

• Advanced Placement (AP) Exams are held during the first two weeks of May around the United States. These examinations allow high school students to receive college credit or placement for work done in high school in a variety of subjects including Calculus and Statistics. Students doing well on the exams may be eligible for the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement.
• National MATHCOUNTS was held May 9 in Denver, Colorado. 6th grader Darryl Wu from Washington state became the youngest national champion ever, and Texas brought home the team title. More results are listed on the MATHCOUNTS website.
• The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair was held in Atlanta, Georgia from May 11-16. Students from around the world who had advanced from local science fairs associated with ISEF competed for nearly 4 million dollars in prizes. View more information on the ISEF website.
• The 33rd Annual ARML competition was held on May 30 and May 31. For 2008, a fourth competition site was added at the University of Georgia, in addition to the existing sites at Penn State, UNLV, and the University of Iowa. Results can be viewed on the official ARML website.

April

• The AIME II is held.
• The 2008 USAMO is held for the top 505 scorers on the AMC-AIME competitions.

March

• Most MATHCOUNTS state rounds are held.
• The AIME I is held.

February

• Most MATHCOUNTS chapter rounds are held.
• The AMC 12 A and B and AMC 10 A and B are held.

January

• The second AoPSWiki PageDay is held.
• Most MATHCOUNTS school rounds are held.

2007

December 2007

• 2008 HMMT sign ups closed.
• USAMTS round 3 was held.
• Clever proof of Heron's Formula discovered by AoPS community member Miles Edwards, and published in American Mathematical Monthly.
• 2007 William Lowell Putnam competition was held at universities across North America. The results are here. The problems are here.

November 2007

• PUMaC was held.
• The AMC 8 was held.
• USAMTS round 2 was held.

September 2007

• Art of Problem Solving publishes Intermediate Counting & Probability by David Patrick.
• The iTest was held. Team North Carolina won, consisting of AoPS team members.
• USAMTS Round 1 was held.

August 2007

No news for August.

July 2007

• The 2007 IMO contest has concluded. Results are listed on the 2007 IMO web site.

June 2007

• 2007 ARML was held across the country. The result is here. The problems and solutions are here.

May 2007

• National MATHCOUNTS was held at Fort Worth, Texas. Results are listed on the MATHCOUNTS website.

April 2007

• The 2007 USAMO was held for the top 505 scorers on the AMC-AIME competitions.

March 2007

• The 2007 AIME I and 2007 AIME II were held for high scorers on the AMC competitions.
• Most MATHCOUNTS state rounds are held.

February 2007

• Most MATHCOUNTS chapter rounds are held.
• The American Mathematics Competitions holds both its AMC A and AMC B tests. Top students on these tests qualify for the AIME.
• Art of Problem Solving sponsors an expansion of the USAMO to 500 students in 2007.
• Harvard and MIT hold the annual Harvard-MIT Math Tournament, which is won by the WOOTlings.

January 2007

• Guide to the Asymptote graphics system for LaTeX created by Maria Monks for the AoPSWiki.
• Most MATHCOUNTS school rounds are held.

2006

December 2006

• The Princeton University Mathematics Competition (PUMaC) occurred, and was won by Team Carolina, which included AoPS members jb05, MysticTerminator, Iversonfan2007, and mysmartmouth.

November 2006

No news for November.

October 2006

• The AHSIMC iTest occurred, and was won by Team Quagga, consisting entirely of AoPS members.

September 2006

No news for September.

August 2006

• The Poincaré conjecture was solved by Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, who then declined the Fields Medal.

July 2006

• The International Mathematical Olympiad took place in Slovenia. Of the six members of the U.S. team, 2 were awarded gold medals, and 4 were awarded silver medals. While team results are unofficial, the Chinese team had the highest scoring students, with the U.S. team finishing fifth. 2006 IMO Homepage

June 2006

• The AMC Problems and Solutions project has begun. This project aims to create good organization for the posting and editing of better and better solutions to the excellent AMC, AIME, and USAMO problems.
• Art of Problem Solving publishes Introduction to Number Theory by Mathew Crawford.
• The AoPSWiki tutorial is under construction.
• The AoPSWiki project has begun!
• A team of high school students from North Carolina is victorious at ARML 2006.
• Chinese mathematicians may have final piece to turning the Poincare conjecture into a theorem. The Poincare conjecture is one of the 7 Millennium Problems for which the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) has offered a million dollars each for proofs.