December 2, 2020

The 2020 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (the CUMCM) announced the winners recently.

The CUMCM is organized by the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, partnered and sponsored (primary) with Higher Education Press of China. It is an annual contest for all undergraduates around the world and has been held since 1992. As one of the 19 national contests listed in the National Competitions Ranking of Undergraduates Disciplines, the CUMCM is one of China’s the most valuable and influential higher education contests.

The CUMCM welcomes all undergraduate students who demonstrate academic commitment and a passion for Mathematics to compete as teams and encourage them to excel beyond the limits of classrooms. It is a comprehensive competition that requires participants to solve real-world problems through building and developing Math models as a team. The contest aims to motivate students to learn Math and improve students’ comprehensive skills using Math modeling and computer science to solve real-world issues. It fosters creativity and collaboration, in additions to promote the reform of college math education in its instruction system, learning content and teaching methods. The CUMCM has become the largest undergraduate basic science competition nationwide and the largest math modeling competition in the world.

In 2020, 45 ,680 teams (more than 130,000 students) from 1,470 institutions in China, Malaysia, the U.K. and the U.S. participated in the contest. In the final round, 293 teams won the first prize, and 1201 teams won the second. 195 teams from 24 Schools of Fudan University joined the contest. Three teams won the National First Prize and eight teams won the National Second Prize.

11 of FDSM students achieved outstanding results in the contest. Tian Liu, Di Wu, Xinghao Qi, Yi Wei, Yu Feng, Jinqi Luo and Yingchen Yu won the National First Prize. Zhihui Wang, Boyu Tan, Tianyu Chen and Shihan Zhou won the National Second Prize.