UNN team takes second place in the semi-finals of the world programming contest
From November 29 to December 1, the semi-finals of the international programming Olympiad, the International Collegiate Programming Contest, were held at the same time at 4 sites - in St. Petersburg, Barnaul, Tbilisi and Alma-Ata.More than 300 student teams from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania and Uzbekistan competed for the title of the strongest one in the macro-region of North Eurasia. Following the results of the semi-finals, 17 best teams will compete in the finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, which will be held in Moscow in June 2020. From November 29 to December 1, the semi-finals of the international programming Olympiad, the International Collegiate Programming Contest, were held at the same time at 4 sites - in St. Petersburg, Barnaul, Tbilisi and Alma-Ata.More than 300 student teams from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania and Uzbekistan competed for the title of the strongest one in the macro-region of North Eurasia. Following the results of the semi-finals, 17 best teams will compete in the finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, which will be held in Moscow in June 2020.
Lobachevsky University was represented in the semifinals by two teams. One of them, Almost Retired, comprising Nikolai Kalinin (Advanced School of General and Applied Physics), Alexei Danilyuk and Valeriya Ryabchikova (IITMM), secured the overall 2nd place and won the gold medals. The UNN students solved 10 out of the 12 proposed problems, and only ceded to the St. Petersburg State University team on additional performance indicators. Third place went to the team of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, which solved 10 problems. Lobachevsky University’s second team managed to solve 5 problems and ranked 73rd.
"We are proud of our students’ performance at this prestigious competition. They have once again demonstrated that Lobachevsky University occupies a leading position in Russia and the world for training in programming and high-performance computing," said Kirill Markov, UNN Acting Rector.
According to the rules of the contest, each team must consist of three students not older than 25 years. They have five hours to solve between eight and thirteen algorithmic problems, which could potentially be encountered by professional programmers in their work. The solutions should be in the format of programs written in one of the four programming languages: C++, Java, Python and Kotlin. A distinctive feature of the contest is that each team is given only one computer without access to the Internet or any other external network.The ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest) is considered as the "Olympics of Programming Competitions". It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.
