The International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC) is an annual mathematics competition open to all undergraduate students of mathematics. It is held at a different location each year at the end of July or beginning of August.
The IMC is organized by University College London. It runs over five or six days during which the competitors sit two five-hour examinations, each with five questions (six until 2008) chosen by a panel and representatives from the participating universities. Problems are from the fields of Algebra, Analysis (Real and Complex), Combinatorics and Geometry. The working language is English. Efforts have been made to make accessibility as wide as possible; the costs of the IMC have been subsidised by a number of sponsors. Students from over 170 universities from 43 countries have participated over the first seventeen competitions.
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