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2021 HLMA — 14 teams invited to Oral Defense on December 14 & 15, 2021

We are pleased to announce the 14 teams that have been shortlisted by the Scientific Committee. They are invited to participate in the Oral Defense, which will be held on December 14 and 15. The winners of 2021 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards will be announced at the Announcement and Awards Presentation on the evening of December 15.

(listed by school name in alphabetical order)

1. School Diocesan Boys’ School
Teacher Mr. Long Tin Chan
Team Member Myron Lam
Topic An Investigation on the Rings of Integer-Valued Polynomials on
Gaussian Integers and Integer-Valued Continuous Functions
2. School Diocesan Boys’ School
Teacher Mr. Long Tin Chan
Team Member Tsz Fung Chui
Topic On the Basel Problem: Generalizations to Other Power Series
3. School Diocesan Boys’ School
Teacher Mr. Long Tin Chan
Team Members Nick Hang Cheng, Hei Chai Shum, Chun Shing Tong
Topic On the Variations of the Brachistochrone Curve
4. School HKUGA College
Teacher Mr. Yuk Lun Fong
Team Members Yan Yin Cheung, Yu Wong
Topic Reinforcement Learning on Geometric Construction
5. School Kwun Tong Government Secondary School
Teacher Mr. Ka Fai Ip
Team Member Wai Yang
Topic On Polyadic Group and Ordinary Polyadic Equation
6. School Kwun Tong Maryknoll College
Teacher Mr. Ka Ming Chan
Team Members Yuk Hang Kwok, Tsz Shing Li
Topic Investigation on Riemann Zeta Function and P-adic Number
7. School Pui Ching Middle School
Teacher Mr. Ho Fung Lee
Team Member Tsz Hin Chan
Topic On Non-Torsion Solutions of Homogeneous Linear Systems
over Rings
8. School Pui Ching Middle School
Teacher Mr. Ho Fung Lee
Team Member On Ki Luo
Topic The Johnson-Leader-Russell Question on Square Posets
9. School S.K.H. Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School
Teacher Mr. Cathay Kwok Tai Wong
Team Members Hoi Nam Cheung, Hok Ip Chow, Hin To Chu, Chi Kin Yau
Topic From Happy Function to Linear Happy Functions
10. School S.K.H. Tsang Shiu Tim Secondary School
Teacher Mr. Ka On Cho
Team Members Chun Hei Mok, Chi Kong Wei, Wang Kin To
Topic On the Generalization of the Triangle Peg Problem to Higher Dimensions
11. School St. Paul’s Co-educational College
Teacher Mr. Pak Leong Cheung
Team Member Wai Lok Lai
Topic Solvability of the General Pell’s Equation, Quadratic
Residuosity, and Real Quadratic Fields of Class Number Two
12. School St. Paul’s Convent School
Teacher Dr. Chun Yin Dy
Team Members Yongzhen Jiang, Yu Sing Keung, Tsz Hin Lui
Topic On the Moving Sofa Problem
13. School TWGHs Lo Kon Ting Memorial College
Teacher Ms. Ching Chi Lam
Team Member Yuk Ming Chan
Topic Integrality of Generalized Binomial Coefficient
14. School Wah Yan College, Kowloon
Teacher Mr. Wai Man Chu
Team Members Hui Yat Cheung, Pak Kiu Fong, Shing Him Lee, Justin Ka Chai Leung, Siu Lam Ting
Topic Investigation on the Buffon-Laplace Needle Problem