Registration and submission

Registration

• Teams of 1 to 4 students of Master or PhD levels at an ECMI member institution during the school year 2019/2020 can participate. Each team chooses a name for identification. The team should nominate a leader who will get the data and present the results, but registration of all team members is mandatory. The link for registration is https://surveys.uc.pt/index.php/633728?lang=en.
  

• The list of ECMi members is available at https://ecmiindmath.org/list-of-ecmi-members/.

• The team leader will receive the data set as well as further instructions on how to submit the application upon registration.

• The link for registration will be active since March 15, 2020 and will expire on April 15, 2020.

Deliverable

• A written report (in English and PDF format) of at most 12 pages is the expected result as well as pollen predictions. The report should describe the analysis strategy, the methodology used and the interpretation of the results, highlighting the main findings.
• In order to respect personal data privacy, the report should be identified only by the name of the team. Any personal data of the team members should be omitted in the report.
• In case computer simulations are performed, they should be well documented with results included in the report and accompanied by the code. The code should be written in Matlab/Octave, C, python or R.

Criteria

The competition committee will judge the originality of approach, the quality of implementation, the quality of results and the overall quality of the report.

Deadlines

• Problem posted: March 11, 2020
• Registration: from March 15 to April 15, 2020
• Submission due: June 15, 2020
• Winners announcement: July 15, 2020