IRIT awarded the 2nd prize of the Olympiad of Mathematics 2022 of the Academy of Toulouse

The French Ministry of Education and the Animath association organize the annual Mathematics Olympics. The objective is to encourage the emergence of a new scientific culture by stimulating a taste for research among students. High school students in all classes can participate. The 22nd edition, organized in 2021-2022, ended with the presentation of the 31 prizes on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. The 2nd prize was given by the director of IRIT, Jean-Marc PIERSON, to Antonin MUTI, a student in 1st year S2TMD at the Saint Sernin high school in Toulouse.

The Olympiads in Toulouse

The National Mathematical Olympiad is an opportunity to approach mathematical problems in a different way and to emphasize the link between mathematics and the other sciences. It contributes to the consolidation of a scientific culture and encourages the opening of mathematical clubs and workshops. In the Académie de Toulouse, 1071 high school students, including 405 girls in the first year of general education taking an EDS Mathematics (1027) or in the first year of technological or general education not taking an EDS Mathematics (44), were registered for the 2022 Mathematics Olympiad, which took place on the morning of Wednesday, March 9, 2022. 971 high school students (940 students in the first year of general education taking an EDS Mathematics and 31 students in the first year of technological education or in the first year of general education not taking an EDS Mathematics) took part in the event. They came from 51 high schools. The academic jury, which met on Friday, April 8, 2022, selected 31 winners. 28 of them are students in “première générale” and have taken the specialised mathematics course.

5 laureates received at IRIT

Among the winners, five young people will soon be welcomed in the laboratory for a half-day presentation of our research themes around high performance computing, artificial intelligence and geometric modeling, among others. They will be able to discover the research environment and become familiar with computer science and its current challenges.