Math Modelling
Prize Money worth Rs.16,000 to be won!!!
Imagine,
A rocket and its violent nozzle which sends out tonnes of gases to propel its stubborn mass - which itself decreases in an attempt to push its own self.
Imagine,
A reactor in which we deposit reactants, and withdraw products constantly – all under the thin hope that nothing will change if nothing changes.
Imagine,
A colony of bacteria which would have doubled every twenty minutes, if not for an antibiotic growth.
Three different worlds. Three TOTALLY different worlds. But if you ask us, and maybe you already know this, they have one thing in common. If you're working with them, all of them can be solved/studied/diagnosed using similar differential equations.
Now is the time for our routine of quotes.
"The human mind has never invented a labour saving machine equal to mathematics" - Anonymous
Welcome to Math Modelling at Shaastra 2010. We invite you to experience what generations of scientists and engineers have experienced since centuries : the simplicity of mathematics that relates the unrelated, which hides beneath the seemingly complicated calculations.
It's that time of the year again, when battles are fought on the head, ideas and models triumph over one another. It's that time when you give a definite meaning to your derivatives, and your trigonometric ratios. It's that time when your routes could lead you to farther than just Konigsberg. It's that time when Gauss and Gausseans move out of just the text book, and make an impact on concrete ideas.
It is the ultimate clash of the brains. Lock horns with the best in the business. One more time, Welcome to Math Modelling at Shaastra 2010!
Qualification will be through a two hour written qualifying round. This will be followed by a 4 hour final. In the finals, selected teams may choose to attempt one or two of the many problem statements posed to them from different fields of engineering.
Winners will be selected based on the ingenuity, choice of assumptions and other salient features of the model they construct. More weight will be given to the actual construction of model as compared to accuracy of calculations, etc.
- Teams may consists of as many as three members. Members may be from different institutions.
- The event will be an on-the-spot event and will not require any pre-registration.
- The decision of the coordinators is binding and final.
Watch this page for further updates.
Contact mathmodelling@shaastra.org for any further queries.
