On March 15 and 16, 2024, ten teams of three or four students competed in Garderen for honors in the international final of the Mathematical Alympiad. This year’s final assignment had its origins in a plenary lecture held at the NWD in 2022, in which Sandjai Bhulai (VU, Amsterdam) showed how mathematical models can help…

On Friday 15 and Saturday 16 March, around 40 secondary school students were present in Garderen for the finals of the Alympiad. Teams from the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Japan and Croatia occupied themselves for two days with a game simulating the summoning of ambulances. The aim is to pick up patients as quickly as possible…