Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition, 2003

The event

The ninth annual Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition was held at the University of Iowa on Saturday, April 5, 2003. A total of twenty-eight teams of two or three students each worked on a collection of ten problems for three hours, submitting written solutions.

Grinnell College fielded nine teams and two-thirds of a tenth:

• Kate Kearney, Kate Thomas, and Dawa Lama Sherpa
• Matthew Bond, Devdatta Kulkarni, and Raicho Bojilov
• Jonathan Wellons, Ming Gu, and Rajendra Magar
• Zed Yilma and Sanchit Chokhani
• Michael Claveria, John Edwards, and a representative of Wartburg College
• Ji-Hyun Seo, Ogechi Nnadi, and Aditya Bhave
• Mike Olsen, Xu Wang, and John Wray
• Logan Axon, Ben Jones, and Bonnie Smith
• Povilas Dapkevicius, Joe Benson, and Brett McMillian
• Choed Khannabha, Avram Lyon, and Nathan Gotman

Results

The team of Jonathan Wellons, Ming Gu, and Rajendra Magar earned 88 points and tied for first place.

The team of Matthew Bond, Devdatta Kulkarni, and Raicho Bojilov earned 65 points and placed third.

• Axon, Jones, and Smith (51 points)
• Khannabha, Lyon, and Gotman (51 points)
• Claveria, Edwards, and the Wartburg representative (49 points)
• Olsen, Wang, and Wray (43 points)
• Kearney, Thomas, and Sherpa (40 points)
• Dapkevicius, Benson, and McMillian (38 points)
• Yilma and Chokhani (31 points)
• Seo, Nnadi, and Bhave (29 points)