21/02/2018

Brazilians embark to compete in the Olympics in Romania.

The Brazilian delegation, consisting of six high school students and two teachers, embarked this Tuesday (20) for Bucharest (Romania). They will represent Brazil in the 10th edition of the Romanian Master of Mathematics (RMM), an important international mathematics olympiad, held until next Sunday (25).

The team is made up of Bernardo Peruzzo Trevizan, from São Paulo (SP); Pedro Gomes Cabral, from Recife (PE); Bruno Brasil Meinhart, from Fortaleza (CE); Lucas Hiroshi Hanke Harada, from São Paulo (SP); Tarcísio Soares Teixeira Neto, from Fortaleza (CE); and Gabriel Tostes Messias Pereira, from Brasília (DF). All are gold medalists, at level 3, of the 39th Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad (OBM 2017).

The Brazilian team will be led by professors Onofre Campos da Silva Farias, from Fortaleza (CE), and Rafael Kazuhiro Miyazaki, from Rio de Janeiro (RJ).

In addition to Brazil, teams from Belarus, Bulgaria, South Korea, Croatia, Slovenia, the United States, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Peru, Poland, the United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine will participate in this edition of the Romanian Master of Mathematics.

The students will arrive in Bucharest on Thursday morning (22). The tests will be held on Friday morning (23) and Saturday (24). The competition results will be announced during the closing ceremony on Sunday (25). The team will return to Brazil on Monday (26).