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1、MyStorywiththeIGM245MyStorywiththeICMXilunChencxilunSgmail.comHangQiuhangqiu7@gmail.comChunzhiYangchunzhiySgmail.comShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity(SJTU)Shanghai,ChinaOverviewThisaccountbymembersofanOutstandingteaminthe2012Interdis-ciplinaryContestinModeling(ICM)®waswrittenwhentheauthorsweres

2、eniorsatShanghaiJiaoTongUniversityXilunandChunzhiweremajoringincomputersciencewhileHangwasininformationengineering.TheyhadfirstteamedupinMay2011intheChinaInvitafionalMath-ematicalContestofModeling;theythenparticipatedintheChinaUnder-graduateMathematicalContestinModeling(CUMCM)inSeptember

3、2011andwonthefirstprizeinShanghai.InFebruary2012,theywereoneofthesevenOutstandingWinnersintheICMoutof1,329teams.Atthetimeofwriting(November2012),XilunwasaninterninMicrosoftResearchAsia,ChunzhiwasaninterninMicrosoftCorporationShanghai,andHangwasanresearchassistantintheInstituteofWirelessC

4、ommuni-cationandTechnologyatShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity.Allwereapplyingforfurthergraduateeducationabroad.ThePostludeattheendofthisarticletellswhattheyaredoingnow(September2013).PartI:XilunChen'sExperienceOurexperienceonmathematicalmodelingcontestsisapreciousmem-oryofmine,inwhichIhadgreatt

5、imestogetherwithmyteammates.Iwillneverforgetthetimeswespenttogether,whenwewereengrossedwhole-TheUMAPJournal34(2-3)(2013)245-257.©Copyright2013byCOMAP,Inc.Allrightsreserved.Permissiontomakedigitalorhardcopiesofpartorallofthisworkforpersonalorclassroomuseisgrantedwithoutfeeprovidedthatcopi

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7、246TheUMAPJournal34.2-3(2013)Figure1.XilunChen.heartedlyintacklingcomplicatedproblemswithmeditationandbrain-storming.Noneofuscouldpossiblyimaginehowfarwewouldgoalongtheroadofmathematicalmodelingcontestswhenwefirstdecidedtoparticipateinacontest.Asweoftenbanteredamongoursel