The content of the competition involves many fields such as economy, management, environment, resources, ecology, medicine, safety, future science and technology.
The competition requires three students (undergraduates) as a group to complete all the work from modeling, solving, verifying and writing the paper within four days, which reflects the ability of the contestants to study problems and solutions and the spirit of teamwork.
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Messer is the originator of all kinds of mathematical modeling competitions today. MCM/ICM is the abbreviation of mathematical modeling competition and interdisciplinary modeling competition. MCM began in 1985, and ICM began in 2000. It was initiated by COMAP (Union of Mathematics and Its Applications) and sponsored by many organizations such as SIAM, NSA and INFORMS.
MCM/ICM emphasizes originality, teamwork, communication and rationality of research and solutions. ?
There are six types of questions: MCM-continuous, discrete, big data; ICM- Operations Research \ Network Science, Environmental Science, Policy
Award:? Outstanding winner award? O prize for short
Nominated for the grand prize? F prize for short
Meritorious winner Excellence Award (first class)? M prize for short
Excellence award (second class)? H prize for short
Successful Participants Successful Participation Award? S prize for short
The loser failed to take part in the competition.
Disqualification? recusal
The competition time is usually in early February of each year.