(Text by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès.) María Josefa Wonenburger Planells was born on July 19, 1927 in Montrove-Oleiros, Spain. Her family owned a foundry, so they wished for María to study engineering and continue with the family business. Yet, her family always respected her love for mathematics and supported her …
What is the PSC? The PSC is the Problem Selection Committee. We’re in charge of selecting the six contest problems. Wait, who’s “we”? We are Daniël and Merlijn, two of the PSC members. The PSC consists of ten members and includes multiple former EGMO participants. How did you get involved …
Last week, we introduced professor Marie Françoise Ouedraogo, a mathematician from Burkina Faso. She was so kind as to answer some questions from us via email, which we share in today’s post. EGMO 2020: What motivated you to do not only one, but two doctoral theses? What brought you to …
(Text by Jenneke Krüger) Marie Françoise Ouedraogo grew up in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She enjoyed doing maths in primary and secondary school and obtained good results without too much effort. So she studied mathematics at the University of Ouagadougou, where she wrote her first doctoral thesis on Lie Superalgebras, with …
For the EGMO 2020 we need a lot of stuff. All kinds of stuff. Think about the paper on which the participants write down their solutions during the contest, scanners to digitalise these solution papers, snacks for during the jury meetings, buses for the excursion, and of course the many …
What do we do as the Accommodation committee? Before the EGMO we communicate with hotel Zuiderduin about every detail concerning the rooms and halls which the organisation and attendants are going to use. We provide guides and maps, manage the meeting halls and assign the rooms. We will play our …
(Text by Mar Curcó Iranzo) Marie-Sophie Germain was born on April 1, 1776 in Paris. She was the daughter of a family of successful silk merchants and grew up into the Parisian bourgeois, one of the highest social classes of Paris at that time. Germain was introduced to political and …
The guides committee has to provide every team of participants with a guide who shall be with you during your stay in the Netherlands. The committee shall be at Egmond all week to support the guides. “Hi, I am Ellen, I have a degree in applied mathematics and work as …
(Interview by Marieke van den Wegen and Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Utrecht, September 2019. We asked Karma to explain the field she works on and the sort of research she does, in words that can be understood by high school students. K: I am sitting in the Probability group but …
(Text by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès. Interview by Marieke van den Wegen and Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Mathematician Karma Dajani was born in Lebanon, in the Middle East. She explains: “I went to American schools, so I had a good education.” Karma loved math from the beginning and she was …
