1323. sredin seminar: Matjaž Željko: Informacijske tehnologije in matematična tekmovanja

Matjaž Željko: Information technologies and mathematical competitions

Information technologies have been tightly bound to the mathematical contests for decades. TeX was known to the math community a long time ago and spreadsheets were used to process the data since early IT days. At the end of previous century, the third ingredient (the Internet) become very important one. In my talk I will present how to blend these three ingredients to effectively conduct problem preparation, contestants' registration, run the contest, do the grading and finalization operations. The contests to discuss are the International mathematical olympiad, Kangaroo contest and National contests (not limited to mathematics).

In the last two years we all have felt a huge impact of Covid-19 to everything in our lives. Online contests, remote/online grading and online meetings were the only feasible options a while ago. Many of these options will stay with us for the future as well.