Five teams of containing a total of 14 UF undergraduate students participated in the 2023 COMAP Mathematical/Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) held February 16-20. Each team was designated as a “Successful Participant.”
Four of the teams worked on the “Predicting Wordle Results” problem and one team worked on the “Prioritizing the UN Sustainability Goals” problem.
The participating students were:
- Russell Abedeen (senior, Computer Science major)
- Kit Aragona (senior, Physics major)
- Katherine Bi-Ji (sophomore, Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics major)
- Trey Black (senior, Mathematics major)
- Jacob Boesger (junior, Physics major)
- Jianda Du (sophomore, Mathematics and Statistics major)
- Nicholas Kapsos (junior, Mathematics and Physics major)
- Adam Kocsis (sophomore, Computer Science major)
- Sharan Majumder (sophomore, Mathematics and Computer Science major)
- John McDonald (sophomore, Mathematics major)
- Joshua Mott (junior, Mathematics major)
- Lily Padgett (senior, Economics and Mathematics major)
- Theodore Stronkowsky (senior, Mathematics major)
- Geena-Maria van Dijk (sophomore, Computer Science major)
The teams were mentored by faculty coach Tracy Stepien, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and graduate students Gillian Carr and Hemaho Taboe.