Meisai, the full name of American College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition, is an American College Students Mathematical Modeling Competition (MCM/ICM Competition for short) organized by COMAP. MCM/ICM has become one of the most famous international college students' competitions, and its influence is extremely extensive. The content of the competition involves many fields such as economy, management, environment, resources, ecology, medicine and safety.
In 20021year, 26 1 12 teams (MCM 10053, ICM 16059) from many countries and regions including Cambridge University participated in the competition.
* * * Award 36 outstanding winners (the winning rate is about 0.13%); There are 13 champion prizes (the winning rate is about 0.04%), and only four COMAP and SIAM champions have been won at the same time.
Admission requirements
The beauty contest is open to undergraduates, but high school students are also allowed to participate. Students take part in the competition in small groups, with a maximum of 3 people in each group? (It can also contain only 2 students, even 1 student), and each student can only participate in one group. Students must be students (full-time or part-time).
In addition, each team must have an instructor, all team members and instructors must come from the same college, and there is no limit to the number of teams participating in each college.
Competition topic
Generally speaking, the American Mathematical Modeling Competition actually includes two competitions: Mathematical Modeling Competition and Interdisciplinary Modeling Competition (MCM/ICM), which are held at the same time, but solve different problems:
MCM: There are high requirements for the contestants' mathematical model literacy and modeling ability. Generally, A is a continuous problem and B is a discrete problem. 20 16 added a question C, which is related to big data and data mining.
ICM: Generally speaking, the problems involved are macroscopic and complicated. Participants are required to grasp the main line of the problem and weigh the macro and micro, the whole and the details. Starting from 20 16, ICM has three topics, D is generally related to network science or optimization, E is related to environmental science, and F is related to policy and social science, mainly discussing modeling in social science.