MCM
Projects and papers for the competition MCM: The Mathematical Contest in Modeling holden by COMAP and sponsored by the NISA, the NSA and the INFORMS. I worked as the team leader in all these competitions and mainly contributed in modeling and coding. Thanks Zixuan Xu, Jiawei Bao and Songmin Li for sharing the meaningful time on MCM competition with me!
Brief introduction about COMAP and MCM
COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.
Reference from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Contest_in_Modeling
In the competition of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), each team is supposed to choose any one of the six problems below and should submit a solution only.
- Problem A (continuous)
- Problem B (discrete)
- Problem C (data insights)
- Problem D (operations research/network science)
- Problem E (environmental science)
- Problem F (policy)
All of the team members cooperate with each other to propose a mathematical model to solve the problem, and then write code to implement the model. A paper is needed for describing the whole project.