VIMC2025

Vietnam International Mathematics Competition 2025 (VIMC2025) 

Important Dates (in 2025)

• Call for participants January

• Preliminary screening February - May

• Charlotte Math Camp July 6th - 10th

• VIMC2025 August 14th - 19th

Team Roster

• USA Country Coordinator: Harold Reiter (UNC Charlotte)

• Team Leader: Tao Hong (UNC Charlotte) 

• USA3A Team: TBD

• USA3B Team: TBD

• USA2A Team: Derek Wang,  Steve Cui, Andrew Mao, Audrey Wu

Sponsors

• Burroughs Wellcome Fund

• Telra Institute

Math Camp at Charlotte 

7/6

• 6:00pm Reception dinner at Lanzhou Hand-Pulled Noodles

7/7

• 9:00am Tao Hong (UNC Charlotte) - Pathways for mathletes

• 9:30am Practice sessions 1 & 2

• 11:30am Team photos

• 12:00am Lunch

• 1:00pm Practice session 3

• 2:30pm Aaron Wang (MOPpers lecture series) - Related topics in curves: Cayley-Bacharach, Elliptic curves, group law and conics

• 3:45pm Maria Chan (Argonne National Laboratory) - From quantum physics and AI to renewable energy materials

• 6:30pm Swimming pool party

7/8

• 9:20am US National Whitewater Center

7/9

• 9:20am Team selection test

• 12:30pm Lunch

• 1:30pm Test review by Leo Hong, Jason Lee, and Atticus Stewart

• 3:30pm Yimei Li (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) - How math helps kids with cancer

• 4:45pm Tao Hong (UNC Charlotte) - Team selection results announcement

7/10

• 9:20am Mock test (team round)

• 11:00pm Leo Hong (MOPpers lecture series)

• 12:00pm Lunch

• 1:00pm Jason Lee (MOPpers lecture series) - My adventures in FIRST Robotics: what else you can do with your math skills

• 2:00pm Tingting Wang (Georgetown University) - From genes to behavior: application of mathematics in neuroscience

• 3:15pm Simon Hsiang (UNC Charlotte) - Problems in systems engineering

• 4:30pm Harold Reiter (UNC Charlotte)

• 5:30pm Farewell dinner at Rice Blossom

• 8:00pm Card night