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Second Edition! Integration Bee 2020
It’s back! The second annual Integration Bee at the University of Illinois will be held on Friday, April 3rd, 4-6 pm in Altgeld Hall, room 314! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to solve 15 integrals in 45 minutes.
If you participated last year and decided that this simply is not for you, fear not! The format has been tweaked and the problems are indeed doable and not impossible as they were the previous time (the problem writer apologises for this). Questions still go beyond ordinary Stewart’s problems and test your logic, critical thinking, mathematical intuition, and knowledge, but this time it’ll be even better!
Should you make it through Friday and become a finalist, you will attend the second portion of the competition on Saturday, April 5th, 2-4 pm in Altgeld Hall, room 314! Here, you will have three minutes to solve a given problem while facing off against someone else. Do the problem correctly – and fast enough – and you continue to the next round.
Champions, Bracket
Jason Xia was declared the “Grand Integrator” of the University of Illinois.
Chinmaya Mahesh was placed second while Husnain Raza and Daniel Shteynberg (not pictured here) were semifinalists.
Finalists
The following 16 students qualified for the Finals:
- Husnain Raza
- Sujay Patel
- Kieran Kaempen
- Johnny Tsao
- Abid Hossain
- Minh Nguyen
- Daniel Shteynberg
- Aryaman Jain
- Hantao Zhang
- Jason Xia
- Longzheng Chen
- Osama Esmail
- Napoleon Wang
- Chinmaya Mahesh
- German Bautista
- Jason Pan.
Qualifying Exam
The qualifying exam for this year’s Integration Bee is from 4 PM to 6 PM on Friday, 5th April 2019 at 314 Altgeld Hall. Sign up HERE if you are interested in competing.
The exam consists of 15 questions. It will be held for 30 minutes at two different times; 4:10 PM and 5:10 PM, on Friday, 5th April in 314 Altgeld Hall.
The top 16 students qualify for the final which will be held the next day from 2 PM to 4 PM at the same venue.
Finals
There will be eight initial knockout rounds between two students. In each round, the contestants will have to solve three problems and the contestant who solves the most problems wins. If two students are tied, time will determine who progresses.
This will be followed by quarterfinals, semis and the final. Here, the format is a direct knockout; one problem only.
In a given round, if both students are unable to solve a problem, they will keep solving until only one remains.
The winner of the competition, the “Grand Integrator” and runner-up both receive $50 Bookstore vouchers.
All are welcome to attend. The audience is encouraged to attempt all questions. If a member from the audience solves a given question quicker than the contestants, there will be audience prizes as well.