Coming up soon will be the Maths Intervarsities Competition, with MathSocs representing the different universities around Ireland taking part. Last years Intervarsities was in Cork, and a good crowd from DCU went down to compete and otherwise. The Intervarsities is a good excuse for a get-together, with students from all over the country coming along. This year the competition will be held in UCD, so hopefully DCU will have a good showing. Each university chooses a four person team to sit a test. The maths in the test is leaving cert level, but the questions can be quite difficult. Examples go like: find the minimum of x^x (x to the power of x) for x>0, or find all a,b integers, a not equal to b, such that a^b=b^a (a to the power of b equals b to the power of a). Challenging but nothing too far out. This year's competition takes place March 7th,8th,9th and to prepare the MathSoc are having informal meetings to go over past questions and methods. These meetings are being held on Mondays at 5.30pm in X137 and all who are interseted in attending are welcome to do so. If you have any further queries don't hesitate to contact me. Thomas Waters, MathSoc PRO.