MUST’s students won the second prize of CUMCM-2016

 

Award ceremony of CUMCM (Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling)-2016 and working conference is held in the Southeast University from 2nd to 4th December, 2016. Students Yi Yue, Xi'ao Wang, Siqi Li from the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT), Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) won the second prize of CUMCM-2016 under the guidance of associate professor Zhanchuan Cai (Picture 1).   

CUMCM is jointly organizedby the Department of higher education, Ministry of Education, China and the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. It is one of the four national competitions especially supported by the Ministry of Education. The first competition was held in 1992, and the competition in 2016 is the 25th. This has become the largest competition in national universities and the most influenced competition on basic subjects both at domestic and aboard. This year 1360 teams from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore attended the competition. The purpose of the event is to motivate college students’ enthusiasm of learning mathematics and applied mathematics, to improve their ability of building mathematic model and solving practical problems with computers, to encourage them to participate in extracurricular scientific and technological activities, thus to broaden their knowledge and to cultivate their spirit of innovation and cooperation.

Obtaining this award thanks to the student quality education that the MUST has always been focused on, the strong support from FIT, as well as the instructors’ efforts of the mathematical modeling group. The FIT invited external Professors Jinxing Xie from Tsinghua University and Fuping Bian form Tianjin University, who are experts on mathematic modelling, to give lectures for students. On the other hand, Professors Yong Liang, Zhanchuan Cai, Chao Ma and senior lecture Huimin Li from the mathematical modeling group of FIT, MUST provided special training and guidance on the competition. They also led the students to attend the summer camp of 2016 "Shenzhen cup" mathematical modeling, sharing experiences and learning from each other with 240 students and professors from well-known colleges and universities across the country (Picture 2). Receiving this award greatly encourages the participating students and professors of the modeling group. Based on the accumulation of experiences, the modeling group continues to work hard, and looks forward to achieving great achievement next year.    

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(Picture 1): From left: Associate Professor Zhanchuan Cai, students Xi’ao Wang, Yi Yue and Siqi Li.

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(Picture 2): From left: Student Chunqiu Liu, Lecturer Huimin Li, students He Lin and Changhao Zhou.