Each year the Department of Applied Mathematics sponsors undergraduate teams in the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling. 聽The contest lasted 4 days from Feb 5-Feb 9, 2015. 聽聽During this time, each team of 3 students selected one of four problems, they did the research, constructed mathematical and then numerical models, and wrote a complete report. The modeling contest is essentially a mini-research project done in just 96 hours.This year, we had a record 7 teams (21 students) participate. 聽聽Anne Dougherty and Bengt Fornberg organize the teams and provide several training sessions. 聽The contest results were just posted and two of our teams were designated as Outstanding.聽CU Boulder also had two Outstanding teams in 2012 and 2013. 聽And, even more remarkably, a total of 15 Outstanding designations since 2000. 聽This is a testament to our excellent students and exceptionally strong undergraduate programs!
Overall, there were 7636 teams from around the world with 418 teams from the US on problems A and B. 聽There were a total of 10 papers designated as Outstanding and CU had two of them! 聽
The website with the official results, problem statements, and a press release can be found at:
CU鈥檚 participants and results are below. 聽Applied math recruits participants from all majors and that almost every engineering major is represented. In fact, the best teams are those with a variety of backgrounds and skills. 聽
Team #32879
Problem: B
Matthew R Hurst,聽Nathan J Yeo,聽Jordan Deitsch聽
Result: Outstanding Winner, SIAM Award, $10,000 Scholarship (Two Sigma Scholarship)
Team #38720
Problem: B
Marc William Thomson,聽Derek Gorthy,聽Christine Reilly聽
Result: Outstanding Winner
Team #38004
Problem: B
Bryan T Doyle,聽Mason R McNutt,聽Leslie D Minor聽
Result: Meritorious
Team #32878
Problem: A
Thomas H Gebhardt,聽Conrad Hougen,聽Pawel Janas
Result: Meritorious
Team #35148
Problem: B
Dalton Jones,聽Kevin Sun,聽Joe Castagneri聽
Result: Honorable Mention
Team #34691
Problem: A
Derek Driggs,聽Ian Char,聽Denis Kazakov 聽
Result: Successful Participant
Team #38738
Problem: A
Sean Braxton,聽Kenneth Blair,聽Nathan Genrich聽
Result: Successful Participant