The award ceremony of the 3rd National Postgraduate Math Modeling Contest was held on Dec. 15 on our campus, attendance including officials from Ministry of Education and Shanghai Education Committee, the leaders of other national universities, mathematic experts and student representatives. The mathematician Prof. Jiang Shangli from our university gave a speech entitled “on the applied mathematics: exploration the motivation of math development”.

The competition was hosted by national postgraduate math modeling contest organizing committee, undertaken by Tong Ji University. The contestants are from 27 different provinces, more than 130 universities and the research institute of Chinese Academy of Science, among whom 55 teams won the first prize, 108 teams the second prize and 195 teams the third prize after strict and fair analysis and judge.