Results 2006 Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest

66 schools took part in the 28th contest and there were 347 participants. The maximum possible score was 70. The leading scores were (if anybody has any objections about putting these leading scores on the WEB, please inform the Contest Director immediately!)

Score	Name	Institution	State	Major
60	Pardon, John V	Duke	NC	High School
51	Tripathy, Arnav	UNC at Chapel Hill	NC	High School
50	Tran, Hung Thanh	Berea College	KY	Math/Econ 09
50	Pollack, Aaron J	Duke	NC	Math 09
50	Zhang, Lingren	Duke	NC	Math/Econ 08
50	Sun, Cheng	Univ of Rochester	NY	Math 10
46	Qi, James	Carnegie Mellon	PA	CS 09
44	Pollio, Timothy P	Princeton	NJ	Math 08
42	Hahn, Jeremy M	UNC at Chapel Hill	NC	High School
40	Leung, Tedrick W	Harvey Mudd College	CA	High School
40	Campbell, Keith A	Illinois Inst of Technology	IL	EE 08
40	Pinyan, Jonathan	WUSL	MO	Math 07
40	Levin, Brandon W	Duke	NC	Math 07
40	Khandhawit, Tirasan	Duke	NC	Math 08
40	Blach, Noah T	UNC at Chapel Hill	NC	High School
40	Berman, John D	Univ NC at Wilmington	NC	High School
40	Schafer, Daniel L	Carnegie Mellon	PA	CS 10
40	Techapongtada, Panat	Carnegie Mellon	PA	Math 09
39	Trongsiriwat, Wuttisank	UVA	VA	? 10
38	Rankin, Timothy D	Davidson College	NC	Math 07
38	King, Matthew S	Clemson	SC	Math 09
37	Zhang, Ian Y	Johns Hopkins	MD	Chem/Bio Eng ?
37	Offutt, Carolyn J	William and Mary	VA	Math/Acct 07
34	Brown, Morgan V	Duke	NC	Math/Phys 07
33	Wang, Kaikai	Wabash College	IN	Math/Econ 10
33	Watson, Samuel S	Univ of Mississippi	MS	Math/Classics/Phys ?
33	Brown, Jason R	Duke	NC	Chem 08
32	Bliznashki, Nikifor	Duke	NC	Math 07
31	Hallen, Mark A	Duke	NC	? 10

The score distribution was

Score Range	Number of Contestants
50 and above	6
40 to 49	12
30 to 39	35
20 to 29	51
10 to 19	99
1 to 9	47
0	97

For more details, see all the scores ranked

The order of difficulty of the problems indicated by the scores, starting with the hardest, was 4,7,5,6,2,1,3.

Local supervisors will be sent the scores of their contestants soon.

I would like to thank all the schools who took part, and I hope you will all take part again next year. I also hope that many schools who did not take part this year will take part next year. Watch these WEB pages; even if you do not get an invitation, we will still be delighted for you to take part provided you fill in the registration forms before the closing date for entries.

The exam will take place at about the same time again next year. We will try to avoid important dates like ACM and SUMS. Occasionally announcements about the competition will be posted in the newsgroup sci.math. Otherwise no substantial changes in the format of the exam are planned.