2023 HLMA – 15 Teams Advance to the Finalist Stage
We are pleased to announce that the Scientific Committee of 2023 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards has selected the following 15 finalist teams to participate in the highly anticipated Oral Defense on December 18, 2023. The winners of 2023 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards will be announced at the Announcement and Awards Presentation Dinner on December 19, 2023.
(listed by school name in alphabetical order)
| 1. | School | Baptist Lui Ming Choi Secondary School |
| Teacher | Ms. Wing Yan Lee |
| Team Member | Hiu Long Chan |
| Topic | Equilateral Polygons over Finite Fields |
| 2. | School | Diocesan Boys’ School |
| Teacher | Mr. Long Tin Chan |
| Team Members | Pak Hei Chan, Yung Ho Kwan, Chi Ho Wang |
| Topic | Investigating the Edge 1-2 Conjecture: from Complete Graphs to Trees and Unicyclic Graphs |
| 3. | School | Diocesan Boys’ School |
| Teacher | Mr. Long Tin Chan |
| Team Members | Oscar Tin Yau Chan, Ernest Yik To Hsia, Ryan Cheuk Yi Lo, Tsz Yeung Ng |
| Topic | On the Upper-bound of Anchored Packing Problem |
| 4. | School | Diocesan Boys’ School |
| Teacher | Mr. Long Tin Chan |
| Team Members | Mason Chi Wah Chan, Tsz Sing Chong, Lucas Chavez Mocan, Himansh Vijay Pahilwani, Tsz Ho Wong |
| Topic | Structure of Critical Groups of Circulant Graphs |
| 5. | School | G.T. (Ellen Yeung) College |
| Teacher | Mr. Alexander Kin Chit O |
| Team Member | Chun Lam Wong |
| Topic | Quantum Computing: Adapting Shor’s Algorithm to the Problem of CLT Group Size Finding |
| 6. | School | Harrow International School Hong Kong |
| Teacher | Mr. Thomas Johnson |
| Team Members | Kyan Ka Hin Cheung, Ethan Jon Yi Soh |
| Topic | On the Properties of the Semigroup Generated by the RL Fractional Integral |
| 7. | School | HKUGA College |
| Teacher | Mr. Yuk Lun Fong |
| Team Members | Ho Lam Lau, Ryan Sze Chit Lo, Jane Chi Kuan Ng, Kin Long Wong |
| Topic | Algorithmic Classification on the Expansion of Fractions in Negative Rational Base |
| 8. | School | HKUGA College |
| Teacher | Mr. Yuk Lun Fong |
| Team Member | Hei Tung Tam |
| Topic | On the Parametrization of Egyptian Fractions |
| 9. | School | Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Kwai Chung) |
| Teacher | Dr. Kit Wing Yu |
| Team Member | Cho Wai Wong |
| Topic | On Solutions of the Exponential Diophantine Equation px − qy = z2 |
| 10. | School | P.L.K. Centenary Li Shiu Chung Memorial College |
| Teacher | Mr. Yuet Hui |
| Team Members | Wan Lau, Haopei Lin |
| Topic | Generalization of Stern’s Diatomic Sequence |
| 11. | School | Pui Ching Middle School |
| Teacher | Mr. Yan Lam Fan |
| Team Members | Wang Chit Kwong, Ngai Wang Lam, Ho Tung Wong |
| Topic | Mean Shadow of Rotating Objects |
| 12. | School | S.K.H. Tsang Shiu Tim Secondary School |
| Teacher | Mr. Tin Yau Cheung |
| Team Members | Chun Hei Mok, Hei Wong |
| Topic | Least Optimal Square Packing in a Square |
| 13. | School | St. Paul’s Co-educational College |
| Teacher | Mr. Pak Leong Cheung |
| Team Members | Kwan Yu Chan, Hok Lai Ng |
| Topic | Generalising Orthocentres of Triangles to Simplices as the Isogonal Conjugates of the Circumcentres |
| 14. | School | St. Paul’s College |
| Teacher | Mr. Tin Wai Lau |
| Team Members | Ryan Chun Wing Ku, Lok Yung |
| Topic | Covering 45 Points Configuration with Disjoint Unit Disks |
| 15. | School | Wah Yan College, Kowloon |
| Teacher | Mr. Wai Man Chu |
| Team Members | Hui Yat Cheung, Tsz Yan So, Yi Lam Tam |
| Topic | On the Littlewood Problem and Sum of Two Squares in the Ring Zq |
