Mathematical Contest in Modeling

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MCM

Legend

O: Outstanding Paper (Top 2%)

M: Meritorious Paper (Top 15%)

HM: Honorable Mention (Top 50%)

Thursday, 2/5/09 to Monday, 2/9/09

Location: Princeton campus

First Year: 1983

# of Schools Participating: 1220

# of Participants: 3500

Participants Eligible: Undergraduates (Teams of 3), no limit on number of teams (New)

Princeton Performance

MCM/ICM 2008 - (2 M, 3 HM)

MCM/ICM 2007 - Congratulations to Yue Yang '09, Jeff Tang '09, and Jingyuan Wu '09 for their Outstanding/INFORMS Award ICM paper and to all the Princeton students who participated (1 O, 1 HM)

Description

The MCM is the premier international math modeling contest, with over 1200 teams participating. 2007 was Princeton's first year competing. The contest is held on campus in early February. Teams of three spend 5 days working on a given math modeling problem (a blend of engineering, computer science, and applied math), and present their solution in paper format. Past problems have included modeling earthquake flood damage in South Carolina, minimizing toll booth traffic, and designing fair congressional districts in New York State.

Past exams available here:

http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/previous-contests.php

Contact: jytang@Princeton.EDU