International Mathematical Modeling Challenge

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International Mathematical Modeling Challenge
Logo of the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge.png
Founder Sol Garfunkel
Founded at Boston, MA
Type Mathematics Competition
Headquarters Boston, MA
Location
  • International
Official language
 English
Co-Founders
 Sol Garfunkel and Alfred Cheung
Parent organization
 COMAP, NeoUnion
Website immchallenge.org

The International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC) (sometimes styled as IM2C) is an international competition for high school students in team mathematical modeling co-sponsored by COMAP[1] and the NeoUnion ESC Organization.[2][3] Teams are selected on a country-by-country basis, with each country sending its top two teams to the competition. The IMMC was inspired by the HiMCM, a similar contest sponsored by COMAP but mainly attracting teams within the United States.[4] The HiMCM in turn was established in the 1990s to create a high school counterpart to COMAP’s MCM.[5][6][7] Contestants in the IMMC are given five days to research (the contest permits the use of any inanimate source) and write a mathematical paper detailing their mathematical model for a given situation.[8] At the conclusion of the five day period, papers are sent to an international expert committee composed of mathematics faculty from the world’s leading universities. Traditionally, four teams are awarded the top designation of Outstanding and invited to an awards ceremony, held in a different country each year.[9]

Team Selection

Each participating country is expected to choose its two best teams of four contestants each to compete in the IMMC. Globally, different methods have been used to select teams from their respective countries.

Hong Kong holds the contest early and allows any interested team to participate.[10] A national judging panel selects the two best papers to move on to the international round of the competition. In 2015, 60 papers came out of the Greater China region alone.[11]

In 2015, the United States used a different qualification process, inviting the top two teams from the 2014 HiMCM to compete in the IMMC. For 2016, the United States will adopt a hybrid of Hong Kong’s approach and its own former approach: any team receiving a score of Meritorious or higher in the 2015 HiMCM (roughly 25% of competing teams) will be invited to compete in the 2016 IMMC. As in Hong Kong, the United States will hold the IMMC early, complete a national round of judging, and select the two best papers to move on to the international round.[12]

Most countries use a selection process similar to that used by Hong Kong, and countries entering the IMMC for the first time will also likely adopt a similar process.[13][14]

Judging

Papers passing the national selection round move on to the international expert judging panel. In 2015, the Expert Panel included:[15]

  • Dr. Frank Giordano, Naval Postgraduate School, USA, former Head of the Department of Mathematics at West Point Military Academy (Chair)
  • Dr. Konstantin K. Avilov, Institute for Numerical Mathematics, Russia
  • Dr. Ruud Stolwijk, Cito, The Netherlands
  • Dr. Yongji Tan, Fudan University, China

Results

2015

17 teams[16] from the following countries competed in the 2015 IMMC:[17]

  • USA
  • Singapore
  • China
  • Russia
  • Hong Kong SAR
  • Belgium
  • The Netherlands
  • Thailand
  • Macau SAR
  • Slovakia


Of these teams, four were awarded the top designation of International Outstanding and invited to the awards ceremony in Hong Kong:[17]

Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA, USA

  • Advisor, Radu Toma
  • Eric Foster
  • Kathryn Li
  • Allison Zhang
  • Andrew Lee

The Affiliated High School of Peking University, Beijing, China

  • Advisor, Yaoyang Wang
  • Donghan Wang
  • Haimei Zhang
  • Wanchun Shen
  • Dingding Dong

Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), Singapore

  • Advisor, Samuel Lee
  • Siah Kelly
  • Wang Huaijin
  • Li Anqi
  • Lee Estelle

Shanghai Nanyang Model School, Shanghai, China
[18]

  • Advisor, Gao Junxiang
  • Cai Yiyi
  • Chen Zhihao
  • Xiao Zhijun
  • Yan Yijia


Seven were awarded the Meritorious designation:[17]

  • Clover Hill High School, USA
  • National Junior College, Singapore[19]
  • Sint-Jozefscollege Turnhout, Belgium
  • MSU, Russia
  • Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong[20]
  • Yuen Long Public Secondary School, Hong Kong
  • Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasium, The Netherlands

Four were awarded the Honorable Mention designation:[17]

  • Mahidol Wittayanusorn School, Thailand
  • IGiL SB RAS, Russia
  • Pui Ching Middle School, Macau
  • Gymnazium Alejova 1, Slovakia

Two were awarded the Successful Participant designation:[17]

  • PENTA College CSG, The Netherlands
  • Gymnazium Postova 9, Slovakia

2016

TBA June, 2016

Awards Ceremony

The 2015 IMMC winning teams from the USA, Singapore, and China were brought to Hong Kong for the IMMC Award Presentation Ceremony on 5 July 2015 at Hong Kong University, sponsored by Guangdong Qtone Education Co., Knowledge Magazine, Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers, Competition on System Modeling & Optimization (COSMO), CUHK, HKACE, and the Hong Kong Entrepreneurs and Executives Club.

Special guests included Hong Kong political leader the Honorable Mrs Fanny Law and movie directors Mr Tsui Siu-Ming and Mr Tang Yat-Ming.[21] Professor Frederick Leung, Chairman of the Board of Faculty, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, gave the opening speech.[22] Law encouraged educators in Hong Kong and elsewhere to continue to pursue the type of educational innovation promoted by the IMMC. Given that the 2015 problem revolved around mathematically modeling a movie filming production schedule, directors Tsui and Tang discussed their own experiences in the movie industry and how applicable teams’ models were to real-world movie filming decisionmaking.[23][24]

File:IMMC Press Conference Hong Kong 2015.jpg
The four Outstanding teams and their advisors, plus the two Meritorious Hong Kong teams and their advisors, pose with the dignitaries and organizers of the contest at the 2015 IMMC Press Conference at Hong Kong University

Media Coverage

The IMMC has received broad press coverage throughout the world, with the majority of coverage concentrated in the U.S. and Greater China. The IMMC has been featured by:

Apple Daily
China News Review (CRNTT)
Commercial Radio Hong Kong (人民大道中)
DBC Radio
Epoch Times
Hong Kong Commercial Daily
Hong Kong Economic Journal
KRON 4 Television
KTSF Television
Metro Daily
Ming Pao
On.CC
Oriental Daily News
Palo Alto Daily Post
Palo Alto Weekly
San Jose Mercury News
Shumo
Sing Tao Daily
Sky Post
Ta Kung Pao
The Sun
Wen Wei Po
Wo Ke Ji

Leadership

The IMMC is overseen by an international Organizing Committee of the following people:[25]

  • Solomon Garfunkel, COMAP, USA - Chair
  • Keng Cheng Ang, National Institute of Education, Singapore
  • Fengshan Bai, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Science, Tsinghua University, China
  • Alfred Cheung, NeoUnion ESC Organization, Hong Kong SAR
  • Frederick Leung, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  • Vladimir Dubrovsky, Moscow State University, Russia
  • Henk van der Kooij, Freudenthal Institute, The Netherlands
  • Zbigniew Marciniak, Warsaw University, Poland
  • Mogens Allan Niss, Roskilde University, Denmark
  • Ross Turner, Australian Council for Educational Research, Australia

Advisory/Academic Committee for IMMC in Greater China:[26]

  • Professor Kam Fai Wong, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Tong Yang, Head of Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Wai Ki Ching, Head of Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Guanhua Chen, Head of Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Houmin Yan, Dean of College of Business, City University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Hong Yan, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Professor Fiona Yan Liu, Director of Cognitive Computing Lab, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Professor Michael Ng, Head of Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Dr. Simon Hoey Lee, Deputy Secretary-General, Our Hong Kong Foundation
  • Mr. Terry K.W. Li, Associate Director, Sun Hung Kai Properties-Kwoks’ Foundation Ltd.

Expert Panel for IMMC in Greater China:[27]

  • Professor Wai Ki Ching, the University of Hong Kong - Chair
  • Mr. James Hung, Hong Kong International Mathematics Olympiad - Convener
  • Professor Kam Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Jinxing Xie, Tsinghua University and China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)
  • Dr. Zhonghua Qiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Dr. Tuen Wai Ng, University of Hong Kong
  • Dr. Junhui Wang, City University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Chi-Kong (Kevin) Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Dr. Simon To, Hong Kong Baptist University

Future Contests

The 2016 IMMC contest period will end on May 9, 2016 (national rounds within certain countries will end earlier). Outstanding teams will be invited to an awards ceremony to be held in late July, 2016 in Hamburg, Germany, coinciding with the International Conference on Mathematics Education (ICME).[16]

References

  1. ↑ COMAP
  2. ↑ NeoUnion ESC
  3. ↑ International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  4. ↑ HiMCM
  5. ↑ IMMC PowerPoint Posted on IMM Challenge Official Facebook Page
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  8. ↑ IMMC International Rules
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)
  11. ↑ Hong Kong Polytechnic University - CAM Digest
  12. ↑ IMMC USA Rules
  13. ↑ University of Utrecht -- International Mathematical Modeling Challenge
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ IMMC PowerPoint Posted on IMM Challenge Official Facebook Page
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 MeJ Mathematical Research Association
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 IMMC Results 2015
  18. ↑ Nanmo Model High School
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Sky Post
  22. ↑ Hong Kong Commercial Daily
  23. ↑ IMMC Awards Ceremony
  24. ↑ Hong Kong Economic Journal
  25. ↑ IMMC PowerPoint Posted on IMM Challenge Official Facebook Page
  26. ↑ IMMC PowerPoint Posted on IMM Challenge Official Facebook Page
  27. ↑ IMMC PowerPoint Posted on IMM Challenge Official Facebook Page

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