In the 2024 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Undergraduate students Boyi Fu, Renjun Gao, and Yunhao Zhao from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering of MUST, with the guidance of Prof. Zhanchuan Cai and Assistant Prof. Ting Lan, won the Second Prize.
Contestants took a group photo with their instructors, Prof. Zhanchuan Cai (left first), Renjun Gao (left second), Boyi Fu (middle), Yunhao Zhao (right first), and Assistant Prof. Ting Lan (right second).
The competition team from MUST is composed of three undergraduate students. The team completed all the work, from establishing models, solving, verifying to writing papers for a problem within three days, which embodies the students’ abilities in studying problems, finding solutions, and teamwork spirit. The School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering of MUST, established a mathematical modeling guidance team, providing students with specialized training lectures and pre-competition guidance.
The Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling is organized by the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. It has been held annually since 1992. The 2024 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling attracted a total of 1788 universities and college campuses from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia, with a total of 65761 teams and nearly 200,000 participants. The contest aims to inspire students’ enthusiasm for learning mathematics and improve their comprehensive abilities to establish mathematical models and solve practical problems using computer technology. Currently, the Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling has become one of the largest-scale nationwide university contests in basic subjects and enjoys a high reputation worldwide. It is also one of the first 19 competitions included in the “University Discipline Competition Rankings”.
Contestants were solving problems on the computer.
