[News from the news center]On April 27-29, the second National Mathematics Modeling Teaching and Training Seminar in 2018--the 2018 Asia Pacific Regional Mathematical Contest Modeling Contestwasheldat YSU.
The conference wasorganizedby the Hebei Live Statistics Association and the Asia-Pacific Regional Student Mathematical Modeling Competition Organizing Committee, and was hosted byYSUand the website “www.mathor.com”. On the morning of the 28th, the General Assembly held an opening ceremony and an award ceremony. Zhao Yongsheng,VicePresident ofYSU, attended and delivered a speech. Also present at the meeting were Liu Baoxiang, Chairman of the Hebei Hebei Live Statistics Association, Dean of the School of Science of North China University of Science and Technology(NCUST), Wang Leizhen,Party Secretary and Vice Chairman of the Institute, Vice President of Northeastern University Qinhuangdao,andVice President of the Society,YanManfu,Vice President of Tangshan Normal University, Jin Hailong, Director of Academic Affairs Division ofYSU, Liu Yong, Dean of the Faculty of Science, Zhang Shiliang, Party Secretary,Yu Chunxiaoand Wang Mingli, Deputy Deans. More than 130 teachers and students from 62 universities and colleges including Sun Yat-Sen University attended the meeting. Theconferencewas chaired by Wang Xiaosheng,VicePresident of the Live Statistics Associationand Deputy Dean of School ofMathematical Sciences and Engineering,Hebei University of Engineering.
Zhao Yongsheng speaks at the conference
Award ceremony
The awards were given to the award-winning students, teachers, and organizational units. Zhang Yin, a teacher ofYSUSchoolof Science, obtained the excellent instructor of the Asia Pacific Region Mathematical Contest forYSU students, andYSUwon the Outstanding Organization Award. At the same time, the meeting invited experts to explore the design and practice of mathematics modeling preparatory and organizational methods, the training and design of mathematical modeling contests, the follow-up research and results display of mathematical modeling contests, and the exploration of innovative talents training mode based on mathematical modeling contests.
Photo ofconferenceparticipants
The2017Asia-Pacific Region Mathematical Contest for Modeling was organized as a discipline competition for college students in the Asia Pacific Region organized by HebeiLiveStatisticalAssociationand the Organizing Committeeofthe Mathematical Modeling Competition. The competition was held on November 23-27, 2017. There were 3198 teams from 366 colleges and universities in 4 countries. Nearly 10,000 students participated. There were some international universities such asSimon Fraser UniversityofCanada, University of AdelaideofAustralia and University of Technology in Sydney, Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, Tunghai University in Taiwanregion, and Macau University of Science and Technology in Macau, China. Thestudents participants were from universities at different levels, including 38“985”universities, 97“211”universities.After experts’review, a total of 4 special awards, 122 first prizes, 377 second prizes, and 639 third prizes weregranted. The competition has become a highly influential basic discipline and applied science and technology activity in the Asia Pacific region.
[Translated by Ni Rongzi]
