An international Olympiad of math, chemistry and statistics will open today in Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University, Tasnim news agency reported.

Starting from Sunday the event will last for five days and students from Russia, Tatarstan, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Aljazeera, India, Iraq, Poland, and Slovenia along with Iranian students will compete against one another for the first three places.

50 foreign students, 12 foreign professors and 15 Iranian students will take part in the examination.

Students will take the exams for two days and get the final results after two days on Thursday and those come into first three places in each field will be awarded with medals on the closing ceremony of the event.  / Tehran times /