Integral Bee
09/02/2008
The student chapter of SIAM recently hosted our first annual Integration Bee. On the evening of May 1st, a field of twenty students from various majors competed. Many more were in the audience. The integrals started out simple, and got harder. But even a simple integral can be difficult to do in a short time limit with everybody watching. At the end, the problems were complex enough that it was sometimes hard to tell if an answer was correct. (Next year, we’ll speed that part up!)
Kiran Kumar Megraj from Engineering came in first, followed by Solomon Roberts from Mathematics. Congratulations to everybody who participated! The Integration Bee was also covered on the SIAM website. See: http://www.siam.org/students/news.php?id=1323
