Programmers of Petrozavodsk State Universuty, students of the Faculty of Mathematics Ilya Nikolaevskiy, Alexey Nikolaevskiy and Denis Denisov have won the World Semifinals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in the Northeastern Europe Region – the Northeastern Europe Regional Contest.
In the contest there participated 199 teams from Russia, Belarusia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Kirgizia. For five hours teams consisting of three contestants were offered to solve eleven problems using only one computer. A solution to every problem was a program written in one of the following programming languages: Java, C, C++.
The Wx team of Petrozavodsk State Universuty became the overall winner in the Northeastern Europe Region, as our students have solved nine problems of eleven.
Within the framework of the ACM-ICPC World Semifinals there has also been held the All-Russian Student Collegiate Programming Contest where the team from PetrSU has also become a winner.
The victory in the semifinal contest for Karelian programmers became the permit to the ACM-ICPC World Finals to be held on February 1-6, 2010 in Harbin (China).
On results of the semifinal contest there have been selected eleven teams more that will represent the Northeastern Europe Region at the ACM-ICPC World Finals. The same teams will gather on December 5-13, 2009 in Petrozavodsk State Universuty to participate in the Winter programming training camp.
The training camp is held twice a year in PetrSU to prepare the Russia's leading teams for participation in the ACM-ICPC World Finals.
Results of the Semifinal Contest