Attending the opening ceremony was Prof - DSc Nguyen Huu Du, Deputy Chairman, Secretary General of the Vietnam Mathematics Association; Vice-chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Cong Thuat; Assoc.Prof - Dr Nguyen Huynh Phan, Rector of the Quang Binh University, Head of the Organization Board of the Contest; representative of the Department of Propaganda and Training of the Provincial Party Committee and the Office of the Provincial People's Committee together with all teachers and students of 68 universities, colleges and institutes in the whole country.

Artistic performances to welcome the opening ceremony

After artistic performances to welcome the opening ceremony of the students of Quang Binh University, Assoc.Prof - DSc Nguyen Huu Du made an opening speech of the 17th National Mathematics Olympic Contest 2009. The contest is annually held by the Vietnam Mathematics Association, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Student Association, aiming at encouraging and developing the talents in mathematics, contributing to improving the quality of education in the universities and colleges. Under the plan, the contestants will take exams in two subjects of Analytics and Algebra on April 17 2009 and the closing and giving-prize ceremony will be taken place in the afternoon of April 19 2009.

Vice-chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Cong Thuat addressing the ceremony

Addressing the ceremony, Vice-chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Cong Thuat stressed that the contest will be a large playground for students to show their talents in Maths, is a useful forum for mathematicians and educational managers to share scientific ideas and methods of teaching and studying maths. For Quang Binh University, this important event will create a favorable environment and a good bridge to cooperate and exchange with the universities and colleges in the country for the target of incessantly improving the quality of training. On behalf of the provincial leaders, Province Vice-chairman Tran Cong Thuat highly appraised and applauded the effort of Quang Binh University in carefully preparing for the contest.

The organization board giving commemorative flags to the teams

Reported by N.H - Translated by N.Y