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Maths Olympiad
India’s Best-Ever Performance
and was countrywise placed
4 among 108 countries. India
th
was behind the USA, China and
South Korea. This is India's best
performance till date.
The IMOTC (IMO Training
Camp) was held this year from
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th
May 7 to 31 , 2024 at the Chennai
Mathematical Institute, Chennai,
from which the six contestants
Krishnan Sivasubramanian were chosen. These six students
constituted the Indian IMO
Professor, Department of
team. The IMO team had a pre-
Mathematics, Indian Institute of departure camp (PDC) at HBCSE
th
st
Technology, Mumbai from July 1 to 14 . Both these
camps were coordinated by
Prof. Prithwijit De (from HBCSE),
The 65 th International the National Coordinator of
Mathematical Olympiad the Mathematical Olympiad
was held at Bath, UK, from Programme in India.
nd
July 11th, 2024 to July 22 , Our students worked
2024. The Indian contingent exceptionally hard on the
had six contestants (Adhitya material taught at the IMOTC.
Mangudy Venkata Ganesh, Though this is an individual
Ananda Bhaduri, Arjun Gupta, event (students cannot discuss
Kanav Talwar, Rushil Mathur among themselves in the exam),
and Siddharth Choppara) during discussions in the IMOTC
and was accompanied by the and the PDC, the team got to
team leader, Prof. Krishnan know each other and were quick
Sivasubramanian (Maths Dept, to work on each other's ideas
IIT Bombay), deputy team leader towards solving problems. These
Dr. Rijul Saini (HBCSE), Observer contributed to the team ‘gelling’
‘A’ Mr. Rohan Goyal (CMI, who as one unit. The presence of Dr.
will pursue his PhD in MIT) and Rijul Saini, Dr. Mainak Ghosh, Mr.
Observer ‘B’ Dr. Mainak Ghosh Rohan Goyal and other past
(ISI, Bengaluru). contestants as resource people
The Indian team won 4 also contributed to the team
golds (Adhitya, Ananda, Kanav having role models take classes
and Rushil), 1 silver (Arjun) and 1 for them, which boosted their
honourable mention (Siddharth) overall confidence.
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