The online registration of S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contests (YCMC) is launched. The application deadline is on April 15. The written exams will be held from April 20 to 21. The national final will be held at Tsinghua University from May 26 to 27.
Brief Introduction of the Contest
Contest Subjects:
The examination will be constructed to test originality as well as technical competence. 5 subjects are covered:
1. Geometry and Topology几何与拓扑
2. Algebra and Number Theory代数与数论
3. Probability and Statistics概率统计
4. Applied Math and Computational Math 应用与计算数学
5. Analysis and Differential Equations分析与微分方程
Contest Forms:
1. Personal Contest
The registration is on an individual unit. There is no limit on the competition subject.
Website: http://www.yau-Awards.org/registration/register.php
2. Team Contest
A college or university with at least five registered entrants obtains a team rank. One team consists of five individual contestants. The total sum of the five individual contestants shall be accumulated.
Email Address：yaucmc@126.com
Awards Items
Personal Contest, Personal Overall Contest and Team Contest are set up in YCMC. There are Gold Medal, Silver Medal and Bronze Medal for each contest.
Personal Contest: According to the subject, they are divided into Hua Award, Chern Award, Chow Award, Xu Award, and Lin Award.
Personal Overall Contest: In this competition, we tentatively set two Gold medals, three Silver medals and five Bronze medals. This award is named Shing-Tung Yau Award.
Agenda：
About the Award
S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest is initiated by Professor Shing-Tung Yau in 2010, which faces to the college students in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The aim of the contest is to fully test the comprehensive knowledge, ability and accomplishment of college students, and promote the development of mathematics education in Chinese universities.
Under the strong support of Professor Shing-Tung Yau and famous mathematicians across the world, S.-T. Yau College Mathematic Contests has been successfully held for the eight time. More than
9000college students from 400 universities have taken part in the contest, including 460 Award winners. About half of the winners have taken up advanced studies in the famous universities, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, and Princeton University.
S.-T. Yau College Student Mathematics Contest has played important roles in training Chinese mathematics talents. It has become an important way to explore and select outstanding postgraduates. Meanwhile, its performance has been listed as an important reference for matriculating mathematical graduate students in the famous universities across the world.
Compare with the previous contests, there will be new changes in the assessment content, the 2019 contest will be more extensively assess students’ basic mathematics knowledge and how they relate math to the emerging direction--in the subject Probability and Statistics there would be more questions related to big data; while the subject Applied Math and Computational Math students would be test more on artificial intelligence.
