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Problem Title: Eradicating Ebola

     
  Year: 2015      
  Student Level: Undergraduate      
  Source: MCM      
  Commentary: Yes (2)      
  Student Papers: Yes (5)      
     
  Problem  
 

The world medical association has announced that their new medication could stop Ebola and cure patients whose disease is not advanced. Build a realistic, sensible, and useful model that considers not only the spread of the disease, the quantity of the medicine needed, possible feasible delivery systems (sending the medicine to where it is needed), (geographical) locations of delivery, speed of manufacturing of the vaccine or drug, but also any other critical factors your team considers necessary as part of the model to optimize the eradication of Ebola, or at least its current strain. In addition to your modeling approach for the contest, prepare a 1-2 page non-technical letter for the world medical association to use in their announcement.

 
         
  Commentary      
 

Judges' Commentary: Eradicating Ebola

     Kelly Black
     Dept. of Mathematics
     Clarkson University

     
         
 

Judge's Commentary: The Ben Fusaro Award for 2015

     Thomas Fitzke
     Dept. of Mathematics
     Francis Marion University

     
         
  Student Papers      
 

Team 32150: Eradicating Ebola

Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

 
         
 

Team 32722: Turning the Tables: Modeling the Fight against Ebola

State University of New York, University at Buffalo, NY

 
         
 

Team 34317: A BATTLE WITHOUT GUN AND SMOKE - THE CONFRONTATION WITH EBOLA

Chongqing University, China

 
         
 

Team 35532: Eradicating Ebola

Central South University, China

 
         
 

Team 40764: Stochastic and Deterministic Models of the Eradication of Ebola in West Africa

University of Adelaide, Australia