Tournament History
On February 21, 1998, MIT and Harvard joined forces with Rice University and Washington University in St. Louis to hold one of the largest high school math competitions in the nation. The Harvard-MIT event was hosted at Harvard University, and followed the testing format of the Rice Math Tournament, an event which has been held nearly every year since 1981. National results for the 1998 contest are available.
On February 27, 1999, the contest was held once again, this time hosted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Events were held concurrently at Rice University and Stanford University. However, Rice University chose to administer slightly different examininations; thus, composite results for 1999 for only the Harvard-MIT and Stanford sites are available.
The contest was held in 2000, see the these pages for the results.
Results from HMMT 2000, Harvard site
Results from RMT 2000, Rice University site
Results from SMT 2000, Stanford University site
On March 3, 2001, the contest was held successfully. See this page for results.
On March 17, 2002, the contest was held successfully yet again! See this page for results.
On March 15, 2003, the tournament had significantly more competitors. With 56 teams and over 400 students competing it was the largest competition to date. Results are available here.
On February 28, 2004, the tournament was run by the same director for the first time since the original director's reign from '98 to '99. The tournament itself ran particularly well with new database software designed for the math tournament. As a special prize, high scoring individuals were presented with hand painted HMMT klein bottles. Unfortunately we did not predict the increase in demand in time this year, and as a result during the late registration period we had to create a waiting list which contained half again the 400 students which did participate.
On February 19, 2005, the tournament grew again to over 600 competitors, reaching that number of registrants by December 15. Some changes in the contest schedule led to a much more on-time contest. The improved database software that also handled registration made the beginning of the day run more smoothly than in recent years. As a special new prize, the top 10 teams won an HMMT Frisbee for each member. This year, the top 5 individuals received laser-engraved HMMT klein bottles.
On February 25, 2006, the tournament was once again run by the same director as the previous year. The tournament remained at 600 competitors, reaching 700 registrants by December 1. Thus, it was the largest HMMT yet on the Harvard campus. We held the awards ceremony using simulcast between two lecture halls, which was necessary because the largest Harvard lecture hall seats 450. We used the same contest schedule as 2005, which was extremely valuable when some teams got sent to the wrong team round rooms and thus started late. For the first time in HMMT memory, the Guts round was not cut short from 80-minutes due to scheduling concerns. We gave HMMT Frisbees to the top 10 teams, and hand-painted HMMT klein bottles to the top 5 individuals.
This page is maintained by Beth Schaffer <hmmt-webmaster@mit.edu>.
