Results 2003 Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest |
51 schools took part in the 25th 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 | State | Major |
68 | Nir, Oaz | Duke | NC | Math/Eng 2005 |
66 | Arthur, David G | Duke | NC | Math/CS 2004 |
59 | Bliznashiki, Nikitor C | Duke | NC | EE 2007 |
58 | Kaseorg, Anders H | Univ NC at Charlotte | NC | Math 2008 |
47 | Zhang, Ian Y | Johns Hopkins | MD | Eng 2007 |
40 | Baliga, Pradeep R | Duke | NC | Math/Russ 2006 |
40 | Zhang, Chunhua | Carnegie Mellon | PA | CS 2006 |
38 | Minton, Gregory T | Roanoke College | VA | ? |
36 | Brown, Devlyn M | Univ of Central Florida | FL | Math 2004 |
35 | Wu, Di | UVA | VA | Math/Phys/CS 2006 |
34 | Rice, Brian T | Virginia Tech | VA | HighSchool |
32 | Hong, Tao | UVA | VA | CS 2005 |
30 | Dore, Richard J | Carnegie Mellon | PA | Math/CS 2004 |
29 | Gilbertson, Eric W | Berea College | KY | Math 2008 |
29 | Lee, Myung D | Johns Hopkins | MD | BioMedEng 2005 |
29 | Cordwell, Robert T | Univ New Mexico | NM | Math 2005 |
29 | Wong, Charles P | Duke | NC | EE/CPS 2005 |
27 | Zou, Jame Y | Duke | NC | Math 2007 |
26 | Freiman, Michael H | Univ of Penn | PA | Math 2003 |
25 | Martin, Jared T | Univ of Penn | PA | Math/CSE 2004 |
23 | Black, James E | Southwest Missouri State Univ | MO | Math 2007 |
21 | Robinson, Rhett S | Clemson | SC | CS 2004 |
21 | Kositwaltanarerk, Wittawat | UVA | VA | Undecided 2006 |
20 | Peele, Gregory W | Univ of Central Florida | FL | CS 2005 |
20 | Vassilev, Ivan S | Wabash College | IN | Math 2006 |
20 | McDougal, Robert A | Univ MD Baltimore County | MD | Math 2004 |
20 | Shapiro, Jason B | Duke | NC | Math/Econ 2006 |
20 | Toups, Matthew H | Duke | NC | Phys 2004 |
20 | Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Taren K | Duke | NC | Math 2004 |
20 | Gross, Jonathan J | Carnegie Mellon | PA | Math 2007 |
20 | Narkawicz, Anthoy J | Virginia Tech | VA | Math 2004 |
The score distribution was
Score Range | Number of Contestants |
50 and above | 4 |
30 to 49 | 8 |
20 to 29 | 19 |
15 to 19 | 16 |
10 to 14 | 28 |
5 to 9 | 18 |
1 to 4 | 19 |
0 | 157 |
For more details, see all the scores ranked
The order of difficulty of the problems indicated by the scores, starting with the hardest, was 7,4,5,6,2,3,1.
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 and ACM. 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.