Results 2001 Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest |
35 schools took part in the 23rd contest and there were 269 participants. The maximum possible score was 70. The leading scores were (if anybody has any objections about putting these leading scores on the WEB, please inform the Contest Director immediately!)
Score | Name | Institution | Major, Graduation |
61 | Groft, Chad L | Univ of MD | Math/Phys 2002 |
54 | Arthur, David G | Duke | ? 2004 |
49 | Lacker, Kevin D | Duke | CS 2002 |
48 | Nir, Oaz | Duke | ? 2005 |
48 | Kaseorg, Anders H | UNC Charlotte | High School |
44 | Chapman, Daniel M | Univ MD Baltimore | Math/Phys 2002 |
44 | Wong, Charles P | Duke | ? 2005 |
44 | Yan, Xiang | UVA | CS 2005 |
43 | Mermin, David L | Duke | Math 2004 |
43 | Ku, Brandon C | UVA | PreMed 2005 |
41 | Cherveny, Luke E | NC State | Math/Phys/Hist 2003 |
40 | Chu, Albert P | Duke | BioE 2005 |
38 | Siegel, Adam F | Duke | Math/Econ 2004 |
38 | Johnson, David R | NC State | Math/Phys 2003 |
38 | Hou, Peter S. | Virginia Tech | Math/CS 2004 |
38 | Bolton, William L | Carnegie Mellon | Math 2002 |
36 | McMath, Steven | US Naval | ? 2005 |
35 | Bowman, John D | Wake Forest | Math 2002 |
The score distribution was
Score Range | Number of Contestants |
40 and above | 12 |
30 to 39 | 25 |
20 to 29 | 42 |
15 to 19 | 54 |
10 to 14 | 15 |
5 to 9 | 69 |
1 to 4 | 4 |
0 | 48 |
For more detail, see all the scores ranked
The order of difficulty of the problems indicated by the scores, starting with the hardest, was 7,1,5,6,2,4,3.
Local supervisors will be sent the scores of their contestants soon.
I would like to thank all the schools who took part, and I hope you will all take part again next year. I also hope that many schools who did not take part this year will take part next year. Watch these WEB pages; even if you do not get an invitation, we will still be delighted for you to take part provided you fill in the registration forms before the closing date for entries.
The exam will take place at about the same time again next year. We will try to avoid important dates like GRE's. Occasionally announcements about the competition will be posted in the newsgroup sci.math. Otherwise no substantial changes in the format of the exam are planned.