Computing science students of Petrozavodsk State Uuniversity went to take part in the World Contest in Tokyo

The team of students of the Faculty of Mathematics of Petrozavodsk State University accompanied by their coaches has taken off for Japan for participation in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals to be started on March, 12th in Tokyo.

The team of PetrSU computing science students comprises the gold medal winner of the last year's World Contest for high school students in Mexico, now first-year student Denis Denisov, and brothers Alexey and Ilya Nikolaevskiy.

In Hilton Tokyo Bay where the contest will be held Russia's combined team will be presented by a few universities of St.-Petersburg, Moscow, Saratov, Ural, Novosibirsk and Petrozavodsk, Oryol and Altay technical universities, as well as St.-Petersburg and Vologda polytechnical universities. There will also come teams from Kiev, Warsaw, Belarus and Kazakhstan. All of them worked hard during winter programming training camp in Petrozavodsk which, thanks to the PetrSU club of programmers, became the center of training teams from Russia and the CIS countries for these prestigious and very important contest.

Petrozavodsk command is accompanied by coaches Denis Vlasov, Roman Soshkin, Elvira Zavyalova and the club of the programmers' founder, Merited Coach of Russia, professor of the PetrSU Chair of Applied Mathematics Vladimir Kuznetsov. The PetrSU President, Professor Victor Vasilev heads the delegation. Last year the team from Petrozavodsk State Uuniversity was a success in San Antonio (USA) having won the honourable 19th place among more than 5 thousand teams of the largest universities of the world that participated in the the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals.

Competition of the best programmers of the planet usually cause great interest among leading computer companies which for an obvious reason contribute to this most prestigious programming contest, as well as among the world university community and 'all progressive mankind'.

Today all Russian computer science students take flight from St. Petersburg to Paris and then will proceed with 12-hour nonstop flight by Boeing to the capital of the land of the rising sun.