Registration and submission

Registration

• Teams of 1 to 4 students of Bachelor, Master or PhD levels in at least one ECMI member institution during the school year 2021/2022 can participate. Each team chooses a name for identification. The team should nominate a leader who will present the results, but registration of all team members is mandatory. The link for registration is https://surveys.uc.pt/index.php/124913.
  

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

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

• The link for registration will be active from February 1, 2022 and will expire on March 15 March 31, 2022.

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: February 1, 2022
• Registration: from February 1 to March 15 March 31, 2022
• Submission due: May 15 June 5, 2022
• Winners announcement: June 15, 2022