A. General
A.1
The 41st International Mathematical Olympiad(IMO)
will be held in Taejon,
Korea
from July 13 to July 25, 2000
A.2 The aims
of the 41st IMO are:
A.2.1 To discover, encourage, and
challenge mathematically gifted young
people
in all countries
A.2.2 To foster friendly relations between
mathematicians of all countries
A.2.3 To create an opportunity
for the exchange of information on school
Syllabi
and practice throughout the world.
B. Participation
and Responsibility
B.1 Participation
in the 41st IMO is by invitation. Each invited country is entitled
to send a team
consisting of a leader, a deputy leader and no more than six
contestants.
B.2 The contestants should not have formally enrolled
at a university or any
equivalent post-secondary
institution, and they must have been born on or
after
July 21,1980.
B.3 The official program for the team
leader begins on July 13, 2000 and ends on
July
25, 2000 in Taejon.
B.4 The official program for
deputy leaders and the contestants begins on
July
16, 2000 and ends on July 25, 2000 in Taejon.
B.5 The
Republic of Korea will cover all official expenses for the leaders,
deputy
leaders and
contestants including food and accommodations for the period
of the official
program.
B.6 Observers and family members may accompany
the leader or deputy leader.
They
are, however,responsible for their own expenses. Any country,
whose
team members spend extra days in the Republic of Korea,
must
meet full cost of such extra days.
B.7 Every invited
country wishing to participate in the 41st IMO must send an official
acceptance, to be received
by the Organizing Committee no later than February
29,
2000.
B.8 Every participating country must send
the organizers, to be received no later
than
May 15, 2000, the expected number of contestants in its team and
the
names of
the leader, deputy leader, observers and accompanying persons,
together with the
tentative travel arrangements.
B.9 Each participating
country must send the names of the contestants in its team
to
the organizers, to be received no later than May 31, 2000,
B.10 Deputy leaders are responsible for the conduct of
their students.
C. Proposals
for Problems
C.1 Each
participating country is expected to submit up to six proposed problems,
with solutions,
to be received by the Problem Selection Committee no later
than April 30, 2000.
C.2 The proposals should, as far as possible, cover
various fields of pre-university
mathematics
and be different in degrees of difficulty.
C.3 The
proposals should be written in English, French, German, Russian
or Spanish.
The
proposals and solutions may be accompanied by their English
versions,
whenever
possible.
D. Contest
Regulations
D.1 The
contest will take place in Taejon on July 19 and July 20, 2000.
D.2 Four and half hours will be allotted for both the
first and the second day's
examination
papers,each consisting of three problems.
The
examination will commence at 9:00 AM each day.
D.3 The
problems will be given to every contestant in his/her own language.
D.4 Each contestant is to work independently and submit
solutions in his/her own
language.
The solutions should be written on answer sheets provided by
the
organizers.
Contestants are required to write on only one side of each
answer
sheet.
D.5. The only instruments permitted in the contest are writing
and drawing instruments.
In
particular, books, papers, tables, calculators and computers are
not allowed
into
the examination room.
D.6 Each problem will
be allotted scores out of a maximum of seven points.
D.7 The
contestants¡¯ solutions are assessed by their leaders and deputy
leaders prior
to coordination.
D.8 The final scores, unless disputed and referred to
the Jury by the leaders, are
decided
by the coordinators appointed by the organizing committee.
The score for each
problem for each contestant, agreed by the team leaders and
the coordinators,
is recorded and signed by the team leader and one of the
coordinators for
that problem.
D.9 For each problem, the coordination
of the solutions by Korean contestants shall be
verified by the
team leader of the country which submitted the problem.
D.10
The numbers of first, second and third prizes will be approximately
in the ratio 1:2:3.
The
total number of these prizes will not be more than half of the number
of
contestants.
D.11 Special prizes may be awarded for solutions considered
outstanding by the Jury.
D.12 The prize will be awarded
at the Closing Ceremony on July 24, 2000.
D.13 Every contestant
who has not received a first, second or third prizes shall
receive a
certificate of Honorable Mention if he/she has received 7 points
for at
least one problem.
E. Jury
Regulations
E.1 The
Jury consists of all leaders and a chairman and a deputy chairman
and
other
persons nominated by the Organizing Committee of the 41st IMO. A
leader
may
be replaced by his/her deputy in an emergency. Only leaders
may vote.
The
heads of problem selection committee and coordination team may also
attend the
meeting as observers. Observers may attend meeting of the Jury
only with
the chairman¡¯s permission, but are not entitled to speak or vote.
Deputy
leaders are welcomed as observers, to attend meetings of the
Jury
which
is to be held after the contest.
E.2 Each
leader shall have one vote. A motion shall be carried by a simple
majority
of votes. In
the event of a tie, the chairman shall have a casting vote.
E.3 The Jury may appoint sub-committees to consider
specific matters.
E.4 The meetings of the
Jury will be conducted principally in English.
E.5 Before
the contest, the Jury
E.5.1 verifies that all contestants comply
with the prescribed conditions
for
participation;
E.5.2 selects the contest problems from
among the submitted proposals on the basis
of
a preliminary selection made by the Problem Selection Committee
appointed
by
the organizers, prepares and approves the official versions
of the question
papers
in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish;
E.5.3 approves
the translations of the chosen problems into all required languages.
E.6 During the first half hour of each day of
the contest, the Jury considers written
questions
raised by contestants and decides on replies.
E.7 After
the contest, the Jury
E.7.1 receives and approves a report
made by the Chief Coordinator on the conduct of the examination;
E.7.2 considers any disputes which may have arisen during
coordination concerning
the
points awarded to a solution and decides the appropriate score;
E.7.3 approves the scores of all contestants;
E.7.4 decides
prize winners of first, second or third prizes;
E.7.5 considers
and makes decisions on all proposals to award special prizes;
E.7.6 considers matters raised about future International
Mathematical Olympiads.
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