Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Title
Fighting Fires in Siberia
Department
Mathematics Department
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2013-2014
Disciplines
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Abstract
In this talk, we will describe a prize contest organized jointly by the Societe de Calcul Mathematique SA and the French Federation of Mathematical Games. Inspired by stories of Siberian fires in 2012, the proposers challenged contestants to place fire-fighters in a mathematical model of Siberia, so as to minimize fire damage costs and fire-fighting expenditures. We will describe the contest and present our solution to the challenge. (Additional notes: We are waiting for the talk to be accepted. And we won a Second Place prize in the contest, we recently learned: http://www.ffjm.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=6)
Conference Name
MathFest
Conference Location
Hartford, CT
ScholarWorks Citation
Aboufadel, Edward and Bjorkman, Beth, "Fighting Fires in Siberia" (2014). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 995.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/995
