SIAM Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling
Principal Guideline
The SIAM Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), established in 1988, is awarded to two of the teams judged "Outstanding" in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), administered annually by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP). One winning team is chosen for each of the two problems (continuous and discrete) posed in the MCM.
Prize Committee
The prize committee will be appointed by the SIAM Vice President for Education. The members of the prize committee must be SIAM members.
Selection Procedures
Eligibility
The eligible candidates each year include all teams competing in the MCM
that are judged as "Outstanding" (the highest possible ranking) by the
official contest judges.
Nomination
The prize committee will notify the SIAM President through the vice
president for education of its nominations within a few days after the
completion of the grading of the MCM (usually in March). However, the
committee is free, in unusual circumstances, to recommend that no award be
made. The president will accept or reject the nominations within one month
of receipt. If the nominations are accepted, the award presentation will
be made according to the procedure below. If the nominations are rejected,
the president and the chair of the prize committee will either select the
award-winning teams or decide to make no award.
Notification
The vice president for education will notify the team members and their faculty adviser of the award within two weeks after the nominations are accepted by the president.
Description of the Award
Student Team Members
Each student member of the winning team will be sent a cash award of $500 and three one-year student memberships in SIAM.
Faculty Adviser
A certificate for the home institution will be sent to the faculty adviser of each of the winning teams.
Prize History
The next award will be made in 2018.
Previous recipients of the SIAM Award in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling:
- 2017 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China, and North Carolina State University
- 2016 Southwest Jiaotong University, P. R. China, and Wuhan University, P. R. China
- 2015 Chongqing University, P. R. China, and University of Colorado Boulder
- 2014 Zhejiang University, P. R. China, and Southwest University for Nationalities, P. R. China
- 2013 University of Colorado at Boulder and Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
- 2012 Zhejiang University, P. R. China, and University of Louisville
- 2011 Tsinghua University, P. R. China and Harvey Mudd College
- 2010 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), P. R. China and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 2009 Harvard University and Southwestern University
- 2008 State University of New York, The University at Buffalo and Harvard University
- 2007 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
- 2006 University of Colorado at Boulder and Harvard University
- 2005 Harvey Mudd College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 2004 Harvey Mudd College and the University of Colorado at Boulder
- 2003 California Institute of Technology and University of Colorado at Boulder
- 2002 University of Washington and Duke University
- 2001 U.S. Military Academy and Wake Forest University
- 2000 U.S. Military Academy and Wake Forest University
- 1999 Harvey Mudd College (two teams) and Earlham College (In 1999 COMAP offered three MCM problems.)
- 1998 Macalester College and Harvey Mudd College
- 1997 Washington University (St. Louis) and University of Toronto, Canada
- 1996 Pomona College and St. Bonaventure University
- 1995 Iowa State University and University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- 1994 North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1993 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and University of California, Berkeley
- 1992 Oklahoma State University and Pomona College
- 1991 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and University of Western Ontario, Canada
- 1990 California Polytechnic State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- 1989 California Institute of Technology and Harvey Mudd College
- 1988 Harvard University
