The Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO) is an annual competition among 250 Bay Area middle- and high-school students, consisting of five proof-type math problems, which is held on the last Tuesday of February. The Hilde L. Mosse Foundation as well as other private donors generously fund it. Click here or more information.

Bay Area Math Olympiad (BAMO) 2011 Award Ceremony

Sunday March 13, 2011

Organizers: Zvezdelina Stankova (Mills College), Paul Zeitz (University of San Francisco), and Joshua Zucker (Mathematical Science Research Institute - MSRI)

Come recognize the achievement of some of the brightest young mathematical minds in the Bay Area.

Rembeber daylight savings time
The ceremony will begin at 11:00 AM (which will feel like 10:00 AM). Lunch will be served at 12:00, and awards will be given at 1:00.

The ceremony will begin with a lecture by Bernd Sturmfels about tropical mathematics. In tropical arithmetic, the sum of two numbers is their minimum and the product of two numbers is their usual sum. Many results familiar from high school algebra and geometry, including the formula for solving quadratic equations and the fact that two lines meet in one point continue to hold in the tropics. In this lecture we learn how to draw tropical curves and why biologists might care about this.

After the lecture we will present the awards.