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The first Local Contest held together with EPFL (PolyProg) is over and was very successful. Congratulations to all the winners! We are really happy that so many participated. Many problems got solved. Thanks to our sponsor Quatico Solutions AG we could again enjoy a superb apero after the contest.
Some impressions of the Local Contest and the final ranking after 5 hours:
The ETH ACM Local Contest will take place this Saturday, October 15, 2011. We are glad to hold the contest together with EPFL in Lausanne (PolyProg).
The competition takes 5 hours and consists of 5 to 10 problems. The allowed programming languages are the official ICPC programming languages C, C++ and Java. From the best 6 participants enrolled at ETH and that meet the Regional Contest eligibility requirements, two teams are formed that will represent ETH at the Regional Contest in Madrid.
If you participate in the Local Contest, you can win several prizes and even a trip to Madrid if you are among the 6 best contestants.
There is currently construction work done at the CAB building. Although we were told that they will not work this Saturday, it is still possible that they do so. Please bring earplugs if you do not want to get distracted by possible work noise!
Again, a lot of students showed up for the second training. The tasks were a bit harder but also more interesting 😉
The final ranking:
Congratulations to Jan Hazla!
The next full 5h training contest will take place this Saturday, October 8, 2011. Meeting point is the VIS bureau (CAB E31) @ 09:30. The contest will start at 10:00am and last for 5 hours.
The first training together with the EPFL team went well and many problems got solved. The final rankings:
Congratulations to Vladimir Serbinenko!
The VIS and the D-INFK offer this fall semester again a training programme that is open to all students. The training consists again mainly of contests. We are glad to coordinate our efforts with the EPFL in Lausanne (PolyProg). So all trainings as well as the Local Contest (the selection contest) will be hold together online. The goal of these trainings is to improve the skills of the participating students, win the SWERC 2011 and participate in the World Finals for the second time, and to recruit new participating students.
If you want to participate in the trainings or in the upcoming Local Contest (Saturday October 15, 2011), please register at the VIS ACM Mailingliste, so that you will receive all updates and information and send an email to acm {at} vis {dot} ethz {dot} ch so that we approximately know how many students will participate. You can of course participate in the Local Contest without joining the trainings.
You can find all details of the Local Contest on the “About the ICPC” page.
The first training contest (Welcome Contest) with an introduction will be this Saturday afternoon, October 1, 2011. Meeting point is the VIS Bureau (CAB E 31) at 1:15pm. These training contests are also meant to be a starting point for students participating for the first time. An introduction to the contest and the system is given for the newbies. We also prepared some easier tasks for this first training and the contest is only three hours instead of five.
Please write us (acm {at} vis {dot} ethz {dot} ch) if you have problems accessing the CAB building on a Saturday.
The trainings are open to all ETH students that are interested in algorithmic (competitive) programming. Browse through “About the ICPC” and “Training” for more details.
Our first team consisting of Rajko Nenadov, Vladimir Serbinenko and Stephan Kollmann won the SWERC 2010. A complete list of the final standings is available at http://pc.fdi.ucm.es/swerc/swerc10/results.php.
Also our second team achieved a very good result and took the 7th place.
This is the first time that a team from ETH won the SWERC and could participate in the World Finals 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations!
The final standings of the ACM ICPC World Finals 2011 are available at http://cm.baylor.edu/
Recent article about the ACM ICPC in the “Visionen”
We will again hold a training week, 18. – 23. October. The department of Computer Science could again invite World Finals Winner from the St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics (Russia).
This opportunity is open to all students!
This training will start each day @ 09.00. The programme consists mainly of a contest (~5h) and a subsequent discussion, as it was the last times.
Please bring your laptop, as you will code on your machines and we will not be in the student computer rooms.
Here are the rooms:
Mo., 18.10.10, HG F 33.1
Di., 19.10.10, LFW E 15
Mi., 20.10.10, HG E 23
Do., 21.10.10, HG E 23
Fr., 22.10.10, LFW E 15
Sa., 23.10.10, HG E 33.1
In case you don’t know where there rooms are, consult Info
If you intend to attend the trainings, please send an e-mail to acm@vis.ethz.ch, so that we can estimate the number of students.
The ETH ACM Local Contest took place last Saturday. 17 students participated in the contest.
It was a neck-and-neck race. Congratulations to all the winners:
Vladimir Serbinenko (6 problems), Rajko Nenadov (5 problems), Stephan Kollmann (5 problems), Khaled Hafez (4 problems), Adrian Roos (4 problems) and Josef Ziegler (4 problems).
Many thanks to our sponsor Quatico Solutions AG.
The second training contest will take place this Saturday, 02.10.2010.
We meet again in the “VIS-Büro” (CAB E 31) @ 09:30.
If you cannot enter the CAB, please write an e-mail to acm@vis.ethz.ch.