About
The UK University Integration Bee is an inter-university team-based integration competitions, run across several universities in the UK and Singapore. In 2021, the participating universities were Cambridge, Imperial, Durham, Oxford and Warwick with Round 2 held at Cambridge. In 2022, St Andrews, Manchester, UCL and Bath have joined. In 2023, the competition has become international with the National University of Singapore joining us - hosting their own version of the event in Singapore. In 2024, Surrey, LSE and KCL have joined in the UK and NTU in Singapore. We are proud to be sponsored by Jane Street.
In 2024, the competition is now in three rounds, whereas in previous years there were only two. Round 1 is hosted at each university, Round 2 in the UK brings high scoring teams from the different universities to Oxford and in Singapore to NUS. For Round 3, the very top teams across the UK and Singapore will be invited for a final round held in Cambridge.
In Round 1, there are 30 problems which you need to solve as a team of up to 3 in 2 hours. There are a range of past papers and other resources such as sample problems and a techniques guide to help prepare for the competition.
In Round 2, qualifying teams compete in a three part competition, featuring group, crossintegral and relay rounds.
In Round 3, we have yet to decide the format.
Register
If you want to take part in the competition, your university maths society will send an email with information before Round 1. If you would like your university to join, please contact us via email.
If you aren't from a participating university, you can join the discord server where Round 1 will be held online in mid to late December - this is open to anyone, including non university students.
Join ServerSyllabus & Contest Information
Round 1 typically takes place in early November with the date depending on the university.
There will be 30 problems, covering a wide range of difficulty and integration techniques. There will be both definite integrals (where only the numerical answer matters) and indefinite integrals - most integrals will be definite.
To get a feel for the type of techniques that may be involved in the problems, the syllabus can be found here. The best way to practice is looking at problems from previous competitions, which you can find below. I particularly recommend the Sample Problems.
Round 2 in 2024/2025 takes place in LT31, S16 in NUS in Singapore on the 18th of January and in the Andrew Wiles Building in Oxford on the 27th of January. There are three separate rounds, Group, Crossnumber and Relay - information on these can be found below in the Resources section in the Previous Competitions link.
Past Competitions
For information about past competitions, follow this
Credits
The 2024 Integration Bee is written and organised by Vishal Gupta, Alfie Jones, Yuepeng Alex Yang, Sharvil Kesarwani and Camille Mau. This website was designed by Adam Kelly.
In previous years we had a team for testing and marking the problems used in our competitions, in 2022 these were Adam Kelly, Conor Doherty, Martin Von Hodenberg, Hassan Raja, Joe Devine, Barnaby Smith and Amir Rahman.
Contact Us
If you have any enquiries at all please contact me by email.