SMO 2018 (Senior Section) Answers

SMO 2018 Senior Rd 2 Namelist

Senior Round 2 Cut-off: 15-16

SMO 2018 Senior Questions

SMO 2018 (Senior Section) Answers

1. B
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. 12
7. 1009
8. 45
9. 540
10. 11
11. 3
12. 59
13. 4
14. 42
15. 9
16. 40
17. 27
18. 123
19. 79
20. 156
21. 1011
22. 9805
23. 104
24. 222
25. 423

SMO 2018 (Junior Section) Answers

SMO 2018 Junior Rd 2 Namelist

Junior Round 2 Cut-off: 16

SMO 2018 Junior Rd 2 Questions

SMO 2018 Junior Questions

SMO 2018 (Junior Section) Answers

1. E
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. 100
7. 11
8. 180
9. 3003
10. 810
11. 54
12. 5200
13. 550
14. 904
15. 90
16. 35
17. 1440
18. 3200
19. 20800
20. 2
21. 9
22. 25249
23. 568
24. 90
25. 1009

Google Code Jam 2018 Round 2 Results

Code Jam 2018 Round 2 Results Spreadsheet

3680 contestants participated in Round 2; 239 of them scored full marks. The top 25 contestants are as follows:

Rank	Country	Nickname	Score	Penalty
1	Belarus	Gennady.Korotkevich	100	0:40:21
2	Russia	Um_nik	100	0:43:25
3	South Korea	cki86201	100	0:45:50
4	Poland	Errichto.rekt	100	0:47:18
5	Japan	rng..58	100	0:47:54
6	Japan	semiexp.	100	0:49:14
7	South Korea	dotory1158	100	0:51:33
8	Russia	vepifanov	100	0:54:46
9	Russia	Endagorion	100	0:54:51
10	-	mαορρω	100	1:00:13
11	Russia	LHiC	100	1:03:39
12	Taiwan	eddy1021	100	1:06:53
13	Czech Republic	majk	100	1:07:28
14	China	xyz111	100	1:08:11
15	Switzerland	dacin21	100	1:08:49
16	South Korea	HYEA	100	1:09:34
17	China	ACMonster	100	1:10:00
18	Ukraine	RomaWhite	100	1:10:57
19	United States	msg555	100	1:11:02
20	China	Stilwell	100	1:12:13
21	United States	Benq	100	1:13:28
22	United States	ecnerwala	100	1:14:15
23	South Korea	Kaizero	100	1:15:21
24	South Korea	myungwoo	100	1:15:43
25	Australia	AntiForest	100	1:16:15

The following contestants from Singapore (top 1000) have made it to Round 3:

182	lichenkoh	100
190	meeeep	100
193	pandamonium	100
317	lovemathboy	78
321	pwypeanut	78
400	ranaldmiao	68
403	kawaiigabrielneko	68
421	btzy	68
459	trevorjoker	68
462	limli	68
541	TrueBamboo	68
569	sijie123	68
638	SmileyFace	59
672	zmobie	51
703	firemansamm	51

Almost there:

1004	mzy	44
1008	nzqrc	44
1018	sampletext	44
1085	oneplusone	41
1088	Mister	41
1242	????	41

APhO 2018 Singapore Team Results and IPhO 2018 Singapore Team

Full APhO 2018 Results

APhO 2018 Singapore Team Results

Gold - Lu Ziyou, NUS High
Gold - Joshua Teo Wei Hern, NUS High
Silver - Wang Jianzhi, RI
Silver - Guo Yulong, HCI
Silver - Lim Shengyang, RI
Bronze - Li Kang Chen, NUS High
Merit - Zhang Yanjun, HCI
Merit - Isaac Lee Yong Le, RI

The 49th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) will be held from 21 - 29 July in Lisbon, Portugal.

The following students will represent Singapore at the IPhO 2018:
Dylan Toh Shan Hong, NUS High
Han Ruobin, RI
Lu Ziyou, NUS High
Joshua Teo Wei Hern, NUS High
Wang Jianzhi, RI

IOI 2018 Singapore Team

The 30th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) will be held in Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan, from 1 to 8 September 2018.

The IOI 2018 Singapore Team comprises the following students:
Jacob Teo, NUSH Year 6 (IOI 2016 Gold, 2015 Silver)
Teow Hua Jun, HCI Year 5
Gabriel Goh, NUSH Year 6
Jeffrey Lee, NUSH Year 5

Singapore Schools' Representation at International Math & Science Olympiads 2012-now

Google Code Jam 2018 Round 1C Results

Code Jam 2018 Round 1C Results Spreadsheet

4469 contestants took Round 1C; 304 of them scored full marks.

The following contestants (the top 1500) from Singapore have made it to Round 2.

6	pwypeanut	100
280	Desmondcheongzx	100
380	SmileyFace	73
479	icypiggy	73
566	yamidark	73
872	xoxie	73
994	HappyFish	71
1056	Espilax	57
1078	pvtuan10	57
1089	ttj	57
1097	jamielim	57
1474	Bent	57
1481	vlwk	57
1496	dantoh000	57

Google Code Jam 2018 Round 1B Results

Code Jam 2018 Round 1B Results Spreadsheet

4811 contestants took Round 1B; 37 of them scored full marks.

The following contestants (the top 1500) from Singapore have made it to Round 2.

81	Momoofhappiness	88
356	yupeng606	55
524	firemansamm	43
762	siegetanks	35
812	marcv81	35
867	Feeder	35
969	kawaiigabrielneko	30
1028	pandamonium	30
1065	zmobie	25
1201	tbthanh90	25
1238	mzy	25
1276	HuaJun07	25

IMO 2018 Singapore Team

The 59th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from 3 - 14 July 2018.

Singapore Team comprises the following students:
Joel Tan Junyao, NUS High Year 5 (IMO 2017 Gold, 2016 Silver)
Ng Yu Peng, HCI Year 5 (IMO 2017 Bronze)
Lucas Boo, RI Year 3
Cheng Puhua, RI Year 5
Shi Cheng, HCI Year 5
Lee Ker Yang, RI Year 6

Congrats!

Current Standing of Singapore IOI 2018 Team Selection

Singapore IOI 2018 Team (Top 4) will be confirmed after APIO 2018 held on 12 May.

Google Code Jam 2018 Round 1A Results

Code Jam 2018 Round 1A Results Spreadsheet

5172 contestants took Round 1A; 438 of them scored full marks.

The following contestants (the top 1500) from Singapore have made it to Round 2.

35	lichenkoh	100
71	meeeep	100
129	lovemathboy	100
141	limli	100
181	oneplusone	100
203	trevorjoker	100
267	btzy	100
320	UltraSuperboy	100
358	ranaldmiao	100
430	TrueBamboo	100
444	Mister	84
508	sampletext	84
599	jamesyang2333	79
667	nzqrc	71
708	Tinyyy	71
862	kenning9	71
940	shaunleong	71
958	sijie123	71
997	4yn	68
1076	eon204	57
1139	Yude	57
1173	xsot	57
1208	Solomann	57
1257	bayweiheng	55
1284	Shaon	55
1313	luxc	55
1360	Andy.Kurnia	54
1407	ccsnoopy	50
1414	Bohao	50
1486	Origenes	50

Google Code Jam 2018 Qualifying Round Results

Lim Li has written a javascript to download the entire results of the Google Code Jam 2018 Qualifying Round into a spreadsheet.

The original results are sorted by rank and in web pages of 30 names each. With the spreadsheet, now you may sort by country or search by name.

Code Jam 2018 Qualifying Round Results Spreadsheet

Out of 24590 contestants, 768 scored full marks of 100, and 14080 scored 25 marks and above to make it into Round 1.

A total of 4500 contestants will advance to Round 2.

The highest-ranked 1000 contestants from Round 2 will get a free Google Code Jam T-shirt and advance to Round 3.

The highest-ranked 25 contestants from Round 3 will advance to the onsite final round of Code Jam 2018, which will be held in Toronto, Canada.

Schedule

Online Round 1 (2hr 30min)
Sub-Round A
Saturday, April 14, 2018 01:00 UTC – 03:30 UTC
Sub-Round B
Sunday, April 29, 2018 16:00 UTC – 18:30 UTC
Sub-Round C
Saturday, May 5, 2018 09:00 UTC – 11:30 UTC

Online Round 2 (2hr 30min)
Saturday, May 19, 2018 14:00 UTC – 16:30 UTC

Online Round 3 (2hr 30min)
Saturday, June 9, 2018 14:00 UTC – 16:30 UTC

Onsite Finals (4hr)
Friday, August 10, 2018 17:30 UTC – 21:30 UTC

JB City Square Trip 8 - 9 April

Lunch @ Hong Kong Kim Gary Restaurant

Playing Codenames cardgame @ Citrus Hotel Club Lounge

Dinner @ Sizzling Stonegrill

Lunch @ Wong Kok Char Chan Teng

APhO 2018 and IPhO 2018 Singapore Teams

The 19th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) will be held from 5 - 14 May in Hanoi, Vietnam.

The following Year 6/JC2 students are representing Singapore at the APhO 2018:
Guo Yulong, HCI
Zhang Yanjun, HCI
Li Kang Chen, NUS High
Lu Ziyou, NUS High
Joshua Teo Wei Hern, NUS High
Isaac Lee Yong Le, RI
Lim Shengyang, RI
Wang Jianzhi, RI

The 49th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) will be held from 21 - 29 July in Lisbon, Portugal.

Top 3 from APhO 2018 will be joining the following students to represent Singapore at the IPhO 2018:
Dylan Toh Shan Hong, NUS High
Han Ruobin, RI

NOI 2018 Results

Full NOI 2018 Results

Top 4 Contestants
Ng Yu Peng, HCI
Gabriel Goh, NUSH
Teow Hua Jun, HCI
Benson Lin, HCI

Top Junior Colleges
HCI
NUSH

Top Secondary Schools
RI
NUSH

Top Secondary School Students
Tan Chien Hao, RI
Li Yuechen, NUSH

Best Female Medalist
He Yu, NJC

Top Foreign Contestant
Yeoh Zi Song, Malaysia

Youngest Medalist
Daniel Toh, NUSH

Google Code Jam 2018 registration is open

Code Jam is back for its 15th year! Register here

The Qualification Round begins on Friday, April 6 at 23:00 UTC. There will be 3 more rounds and then the final round.

Top 1000 participants ranked in Round 2 will win a Code Jam T-shirt each. Top 25 participants in Round 3 will have the chance to earn the title of Code Jam Champion and US$15,000 at the World Finals in Toronto, Canada.

Both Lim Jeck and Lim Li took part in Code Jam 2017 and they won a T-shirt each.  No Singaporean has ever made it to the finals of the Google Code Jam! And also, for 14 years in a row since 2003, men have dominated the finals, with the exception of one female finalist in 2011.

Code Jam 2017 was held in Dublin, Ireland.  Gennady Korotkevich of Belarus claimed the title of World Champion and a grand prize of US$15,000.

If you don't know Gennady Korotkevich, check out his IOI statistics here and his Wikipedia page here.

ESPR 2018 is open for registration

The European Summer Program on Rationality (ESPR) is an immersive summer workshop for talented high school students all around the world (16-19 years old as of August 2018) with a desire to understand our world.

ESPR's tuition as well as meals and lodging is free for all admitted students due to a generous grant from the Open Philanthropy Project. Need-based travel scholarships are available.

Lim Li attended the camp held in King's College, London, in August last year, and enjoyed it very much. She was even given 0.01 bitcoin by an instructor who presented a talk on bitcoin mining.  Some photos from the camp can be found here.

Register for ESPR 2018 here before 1 April.

Code Jam to I/O for Women 2018

Lim Li took part in Google Code Jam for Women 2018 on 17 Feb 2018, Singapore time 11 pm to 1.30 am.

She came in 1st out of over 800 contestants worldwide.

Full Results

Prizes: Those ranked in the top 150 scores of the Contest are eligible to receive a free non-transferable registration to Google I/O 2018 and a reimbursement for travel costs to Google I/O 2018 up to US$500.

Admission to NUS in Academic Year 2018

Lim Li has accepted the admission offer, as well as offer of NUS Merit Scholarship. Though she has been offered a double degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, most likely she will be pursuing just a single degree in Computer Science.

Internship at Jane Street

Jane Street, a Quantitative Trading firm with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong, is known to pay attractively to their Interns. Each year, many undergraduates majoring in Math and/or Computing apply for Jane Street's summer internship.

Types of Internship (from Jane Street's Internship website):

Trading Interns
Work with experienced traders to find and analyze arbitrage strategies, hedge risk, and search for new opportunities. Trading interns usually split their summer between two different trading desks, and spend a week in one of our overseas offices.

Developer Interns
Work with experienced dev mentors on projects that are wide-ranging and have real impact. Learn about trading through classes and build bots that compete on a simulated exchange. Past interns have built protocol compilers, hacked on the internals of our concurrency library, and built real-time visualization tools. Many intern projects are subsequently released as open-source.

Business Development Interns
Work with our business development, compliance, and operations teams to understand the regulatory and operational frameworks of various financial markets, and how they impact the implementation of the firm’s systems, processes, and trading strategies.  Business development interns rotate through projects and mentors over the summer, and spend a week in our London office.

Research Interns
Construct mathematical models, learn about relevant academic research, explore new ideas, and execute studies using Jane Street’s massive research infrastructure.


Past interns have reported that the best part of the internship is the rich educational experience. Every week brings a mix of finance theory and technology classes, mock trading sessions, and guest speakers, on top of careful one-on-one mentoring with experienced traders and technologists.

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According to Glassdoor, the average monthly pay in US$ for a Software Engineer Intern is as follows:

Jane Street: $10,416
Facebook: $8,000
Amazon: $7,632
Twitter: $7,054
Microsoft: $6,816
Apple: $6,700
Google: $5,878