Chapter 339: Meisai!

Chapter 339
The American College Student Mathematical Modeling Contest, in terms of specifications, is naturally a higher level than the Chinese College Student Modeling Contest.
After all, Maison is facing university students from all over the world.
According to a statistical data, the 21st American College Student Modeling Contest held at the University of Chicago in the United States last year included 10,254 teams and 30,762 college students from more than 30 countries and regions around the world.
Presumably, this year's number of participants and this number cannot be found, and the more than 10,000 teams are all elites selected through modeling competitions in their respective countries.
However, the number of awards in the US Championship is not as high as that of the national competition where almost 20% of the participants can win.
Although the number of participants is increasing year by year, the number of awards has remained unchanged for more than two decades.
200 merit awards, 80 special award nominations, 20 special awards, a total of three hundred awards, an average of more than 10,000 teams, which means that only 3% of the teams can get the award.
Of course, there is another award called the "Successful Participation Award". The number of places awarded is based on 80% of the participating teams that year.
This ratio... is about the same as the probability of a "Thank you for your participation" when the cap is turned on.
No school will write this as an award in the student's file.
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The time of the 22nd Meisai has been determined, from February 14th to February 18th in the Gregorian calendar.
In the lunar calendar, this time period happens to be from the 14th to the 18th of the first month.
Fortunately, I just missed the Lantern Festival. Cheng Nuo once heard the senior sister say that a beauty game a few years ago happened to hit the Spring Festival a few days.
Anyway, there is no Spring Festival custom in the United States, and the competition will be held as usual.
On the night of New Year's Eve, all parts of the country stayed up all night on New Year's Eve.
But the other people staying up all night is a family happily gathering together to watch the Spring Festival Gala. They staying up all night are forced to stay in the computer room to do modeling and type code. Outside the window, the cold wind cannot stop blowing.
The north wind blows, and the snowflakes flutter!
It's simply a "bitter" word!
Of course, apart from the difference in the scale of the competition, the general format of the US Championship and the National Championship is similar, except that the competition for the National Championship is often 72 hours, while the US Championship is four days, which is 96. hour.
The types of topics cover a wider range than the content of the national competition, including economics, management, environment, resources, ecology, medicine, security, future technology and many other fields.
Since the competition often increases, the difficulty will naturally increase accordingly.
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Now that time has just entered 2022, Cheng Nuo still has more than two months to prepare.
Hey, it's hard to say preparing for battle!
Anyway, the strength lies there. If it weren't for the requirements of the leaders of the academy, plus the fact that he happened to be in the World Abacus Mental Arithmetic Contest, Professor Fang would not let Cheng Nuo run around.
We must know that we have entered the most critical stage of the weak BSD conjecture proof work. As long as this difficult period is passed, the road behind is a map!
"Cheng Nuo, you went to the competition this time, but you went with a mission, twenty special prizes, you have to get one back anyway!" This is what Professor Fang told Cheng Nuo.
But in the final analysis, it is the requirement of the college leadership.
The leaders of Tsinghua University of Mathematics have their own considerations.
Now Cheng Nuo is well-known in their mathematics circle. The title of "Professor Fang's disciple" has attracted a lot of attention for him. In addition, he has recently heard that he is working as Professor Fang's assistant to overcome BSD conjecture. Let everyone value Cheng Nuo more.
Unless it is a last resort, they are unwilling to force Professor Fang's lover.
But the current situation has indeed reached a very serious degree.
As we all know, China has always been one of the more active countries participating in the US Games. In the first few years when the beauty contest was held, when the participating countries were still very few, China often occupied about ten of the twenty special prizes, and their Tsinghua University often had one or two modeling The group won the first prize, which symbolizes honor.
However, in recent years, as more and more countries and regions have participated in the American Games, the scale and gold content have increased. At the same time, fewer and fewer teams have won special prizes for the Chinese National Team. Four or five teams look like.
Especially for Tsinghua University. Except for a group that won the special prize four years ago, it has not won even one special prize for three consecutive years.
This makes the leaders of the School of Mathematics very embarrassed!
As a last resort, they could only trouble Professor Fang and let his protégé Cheng Nuo come out again!
In order to ensure that Cheng Nuo has enough qualifications to hit the Grand Prize of this year's beauty competition, the academy is very well prepared, and even his teammates have selected Cheng Nuo.
Originally, Cheng Nuo said that it was just the two teammates who participated in the national competition with him, but he was decisively rejected by the instructor sent by the college.
The instructor, Associate Professor Sun, had a certain understanding of Cheng Nuo's other two teammates, Liu Qing and Gu Feifei.
I thought that they were paddling or doing some work, but Professor Sun overestimated them.
Therefore, Professor Sun will never allow these two unstable factors to exist.
In one day, Professor Sun hired Cheng Nuo from the School of Accounting and Foreign Languages.
The three met in a small meeting room.
Both of them have experience in participating in the beauty contest, and they are big brothers in their respective colleges. Now they are told to join the team of the young man and follow his command. To tell the truth, they are a little unconvinced. of.
However, in response to this dissatisfaction, Cheng Nuo simply said six words, "Follow me, there are prizes!"
Although the two members of the Academy of Accounting and the School of Foreign Languages ​​had participated in the beauty contest, the 3% winning rate made them feel bad.
Regarding Cheng Nuo's arrogant remark, the two naturally maintained a dubious attitude.
Anyway, Meisai is about to arrive in more than a month, when the time comes, it will be a mule or a horse, and you will know when you pull it out!
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After finishing the last exam course of "Real Variable Functions and Functional Analysis", Cheng Nuo ended his sophomore semester life!
No, I can't say that the first semester of the sophomore year, because the courses currently studied by Cheng Nuo already include the courses of the senior year.
It should be more accurate to say that it was the first semester of the senior year.
Because in the second half of this semester, he will end all the four-year undergraduate courses in mathematics, which also represents the undergraduate graduation.
Cheng Nuo is still considering whether to stay in Peking University or go abroad for further study.
However, there is still a very real problem that Cheng Nuo needs to face.
Up to now, his graduation thesis and graduation defense have not yet been prepared.
It's not that he didn't worry at all, but... he was really busy and forgot!
It seems that after the BSD conjecture is settled, it is time to seize the time to get the graduation defense.