Under the guidance of Professor Mason Porter, six UCLA Undergraduate Math students were named Finalists in the 42nd annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and the 28th annual Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM).
This year, 32,213 teams representing 28 countries and regions participated, with 93,977 students working in teams of up to three to research and model their solutions over one weekend.
Both UCLA teams were named “Finalists” for their work on Problem B. The students were among the 120 Finalist teams for this problem out of a total of 5,194 competing teams. The two teams consist of Jiayi (Cora) Guo, Junming Gong, & Hanmo Yang, and Renxin (Jessica) Li, Manqing (Eleanore) Zhu, & Jiayi (Bob) Fan.
The team, consisting of Renxin (Jessica) Li, Manqing (Eleanore) Zhu, and Jiayi (Bob) Fan, received the additional designation of MAA Award.
For Problem B, students were asked to figure out the most effective way to get all the materials needed to build and support a 100,000-person Moon colony.
Read more about the results here.