Registration and submission

Registration

• Teams of 1 to 4 students of Bachelor, Master or PhD levels at an ECMI member institution during the school year 2020/2021 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/598588.
  

• 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 from May 5, 2021 and will expire on June 15 June 30, 2021.

Deliverable

• A written report (in English and PDF format) of at most 12 pages is the expected result. The report should describe the analysis strategy, the methodology used and the interpretation of the results, highlighting the main findings.

• 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: May 5, 2021
• Registration: from May 5 to June 15 June 30, 2021
• Submission due: July 31, 2021
• Winners announcement: September 15, 2021