Quantiz@March'09

On 31st March 2009, Quantinuum - The Quants Forum of SIMSR organised its second monthly meet.

The event started with a presentation by Prof. Nilakantan of Data Mining. This presentation was followed by Mr. Sourav Phadke's presentation of his final year project on calculation of minimum distance and time between any two stations on the Mumbai SUburban railway line. The presentaion was informational and informed the students ways to use quantitative techniques in their projects.

Next was the presentation from PGDM-A students Amit Wadhwa, Sana Khan and Aanand Mehra on the feasability of the claim of JAAGO RE campaign of 1 billion votes in India by 2010.

Finally the puzzle contest was organised by Gaurav Mehra which witnessed 20 teams participating in solving 15 mathematics puzzles.
After one hour of puzzle solving by the teams the results of the event are as follows:

1st : MANI PRADHAN (Score - 31)
2nd: BENDRUM MAHENDAR REDDY (Score - 28)
3rd : AMISH DALAL (Score - 25)

Other close finishers which are worth mentioning are:

Chinmaya Sahoo (Score - 24)
Priyaj Shah (Score - 23)
Milan Kr. Sahu (Score - 20)
Agamdeep Singh (Score - 20)
Shriyak Dedhia (Score - 20)

Quantiz @ iCON'09

Quantinuum has successfully organized Quantiz in iCON 2009 – the MCA techfest at K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research. The event was all about maths puzzle and programming. It was consist of two stages. In the first stages the participants were given 10 puzzles and 1 case. The response was excellent. Total 21 teams have participated in the first stage. The participants came from different colleges in Mumbai. Based on the performance in first stage 10 teams were selected for the second stage competition. In the second stage the shortlisted teams were given 4 puzzles which they had to solve using programming languages like C, C++ and Microsoft Excel. At the end of the competition Akhil and Suyash from VESIT won the first prize and second prize went to Anupam and Aditya from SIMSR. All the participants admitted that the questions were tough enough and they enjoyed solving them. The organizers of iCON were also very glad for the success of the event and they have decided to keep this event in their future programs too.