GDIC Students Won the Special Prize in the 2025 American (International) Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM)

The results of the 2025 American (International) Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) were announced recently. A total of 24 teams from SCAU participated in this competition, winning one American Mathematical Society Special Award (AMS Award), one Outstanding Winner Award (Special Award), one Meritorious Winner Award (Third Level Award), five Honorable Mention Awards (Fourth Level Award) and 14 Successful Participant Awards.

This competition attracted more than 80,000 participants from 27,456 teams and more than 1,700 universities in more than 20 countries and regions, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Participating universities include Tsinghua University, Peking University, Harvard University, Oxford University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other well-known international universities. The competition awarded 35 Outstanding Winner awards (special prizes), with a winning rate of only 0.16%; and six American Mathematical Society Special Awards (AMS Awards) were awarded from the Outstanding Winner teams, with a winning rate of only 0.02%.

Under the guidance of associate professor Xie Xianrong from GDIC, the team of 2023 undergraduates Wu Haojun and Zhang Yanbing from Guangzhou Dublin International College of Life Sciences and Technology and 2022 undergraduate Zhang Ruoming from the College of Agriculture of SCAU won the Outstanding Winner Award (Special Prize) and the American Mathematical Society Special Award (AMS Award). This is the first time that SCAU and GDIC have won the highest award in this competition. The team closely followed the global sustainable development issues and innovatively constructed the "Bio-Ecological Model Enhancement Framework" (BEME) and the "Socio-Economic Agricultural Model" (SEAM), systematically comparing the differences in the ecological and economic benefits of traditional, organic and regenerative agriculture.

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Xie Xianrong said that the organic combination of multidisciplinary professional background, mathematical modeling literacy and international education has produced a surprising synergistic effect. "The cross-integration between biological science and agronomy provides key theoretical support and innovative paths for our research," Zhang Ruoming added.

The Mathematical Contest in Modeling for College Students in the United States is hosted by the Federation of Mathematics and Its Applications in the United States. It has been successfully held for 40 sessions so far. It is the only and most influential international mathematical contest in modeling in the world. The competition requires a maximum of three undergraduates to form a team and complete all the work from model building, solving, verification to the writing of English articles on the designated problem within four consecutive days. It covers many fields such as environment, energy, finance, medicine, and security.

Congratulations to all winners!