The International Mathematics Competition for University Students has been held annually since 1994. This year, over 70 universities and national teams with 400 students from all over the world took part. The team from the University of Bonn, consisting of Samuel Meyer, Henrik Jasper Schlüter, Juri Kaganskiy, Lennart Christian Grabbel, Boldizsár Mann, Christian Kraftsik, Paul Jakob Schmidt and Ruth Plümer, also achieved outstanding results in the individual competition: Samuel Meyer, Henrik Jasper Schlüter and Juri Kaganskiy received a coveted Grand First Prize and were among the top ten participants, and the other Bonn team members were also awarded prizes and honorable mentions.
We would like to thank Pekka Johannes Alestalo, the captain of the Finnish national team, and Ivan Ovsyannikov, the captain of the private Constructor University from Bremen, who successfully submitted objections from our Bonn team members to the jury. Unfortunately, we did not manage to find a captain for our Bonn team before the competition. After tough negotiations, we were kindly accepted as a separate team even without a team captain.
Almost every year, the team of math students from Bonn is among the top five teams at the IMC in Blagoevgrad. In recent years, many of its current members have represented Germany at the annual International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) for school students and then decided to study mathematics in Bonn. The Bonn team is supported by the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) and by QuantCo. At the HCM, excellent support for young talent at all career levels - from early support for children in the Bonn Math Club to the Hausdorff School for doctoral students and postdocs to the Bonn Junior Fellows - is of high priority.