COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling

Mathematical Contest in Modeling

Go to the COMAP web page for more information about COMAP and the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM).
Check out the 2005 contest problems.
A copy of the 2005 flyer is here.

Colgate Teams

Year	Team	Result	Faculty Advisor
2007	Erik Johnson, John Sweeney, Nikhil Fernandes	Meritorious	Warren Weckesser
2007	Kellen Myers	Successful Participant	Warren Weckesser
2005	Anthony Annunziata, Kellen Myers, Justin Spencer	Honorable Mention	Warren Weckesser
2004	Nils Homer, Kellen Myers	Successful Participant	Warren Weckesser
2002	Yibing Cui, Alex Qian, Wei Ren	Meritorious	Warren Weckesser

Resources that may be useful during the contest:

Here is protext.exe. Download and run it on you Windows computer. It will install MiKTeX, TeXnicCenter, and some other tools.
Colgate Libraries
google web search
Latex guides and other related sites
- Hypertext Help with LaTeX
- Getting Started with LaTeX
- AMS-LaTeX (You can get the AMS-LaTeX User's Guide here.)
Maple guides
- Maple tutorial
- Getting Started with Maple (a tutorial)
Scilab
Matlab

Some very brief notes that I wrote for Math 312 (Spring '05)
A brief Matlab tutorial (Department of Mathematics, University of Utah)

Here is a Latex template that you can use for the contest report. You will also need the sample postscript file if you want to process the template as is.

report.tex
myfile.ps (A postscript file included by report.tex.)
The output, in PDF format: report.pdf