Joining the HMMT Staff
If you're an MIT or Harvard student interested in helping either organize the tournament beforehand or run it on contest day, please contact hmmt-request@mit.edu.
Submitting Problems
We need more than 100 problems in Algebra, Combinatorics, and Geometry, both short-answer and proof-style. There's plenty of room for you to exercise your creativity. There's also no need to rack your brain to make the most impenetrable questions possible. We need more easy problems than hard problems, so deep meditation is optional. In fact, we college students generally underestimate difficulty, so you are particularly encouraged to send in problems you find borderline trivial—what's easy for you may in fact be the right level. Here are some more specific guidelines:
- Don't worry about fitting a problem onto a specific test. If you send in a good problem, we'll try to accomodate it.
- The contest format and difficulty level can be gleaned from the archives.
- If you are interested in writing for the Team Round, please contact hmmt-problem-czar@mit.edu.
- Please submit full solutions to all of your problems, and make sure they are correct.
- If a problem has a solution that is longer than about 1/4 page, then it is probably too hard.
- Good problems are not too computationally intensive and do not require obscure knowledge. Students/test solvers should not feel like they want a calculator.
- Problems should be worded so that their answers have clear canonical forms.
- We reserve the right to edit your problems.
Before you get rolling, there are a few things to point out. For both security and testing purposes, we want knowledge of the problems to be limited. In particular, problem submissions should be emailed directly to hmmt-problem-czar@mit.edu. The preferred format is .tex source, with problem statements and solutions assembled in a logical manner.
Again, we need lots of problem submissions to keep the contest quality high. If you can write problems for the contest, please submit them to hmmt-problem-czar@mit.edu. The deadline for submitting problems is January 1.
Test solving
We also need help test solving problems. If you can help with this, sign up for hmmt-list and you can test solve over winter break.
Mini-events
During the HMMT, we run mini-events: fun events such as logic puzzles or Set. If you have an idea for a mini-event or would like to run one, please let us know.