From 8 to 18 November 2016 the Moscow International Workshop ACM ICPC is going to be held at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Moscow International Workshop ACM ICPC presents programming education and training camp for students. It is traditionally held by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the University ITMO with the Lomonosov Moscow State University and this year is going to be the sixth time the event is taking place. The workshop is aimed at training and educating students in programming for successful participation in the ACM ICPC. The official language is English.
The workshop schedule is planned to have 9 workdays that include daily contests and problem analyses, as well as lectures and time for upsolving. In the evenings, there will be sports and other activities.
Contests are moderated by Oleg Khristenko: coordinator of the Pankratiev Open Cup and the main editor of Snarknews.info
The training is going to be held in accordance with the "one and a half divisions" scheme. No less than four and no more than five rounds out of nine will be non-thematic five hour long contests with the same level of difficulty as those of the ACM ICPC Regionals. The overall standings will be formed by the results of these rounds. The remaining rounds will be held separately by divisions. The Division A (for experienced teams' training) will also have non-thematic five hour long contests of the ACM ICPC Regionals difficulty level; analyses of non-thematic rounds will be held by MIPT team trainers. The Division B (educational) will have two thematic shortened contests in the morning and in the evening, as well as a lecture in the corresponding topic and analyses of problems composed by lecturers. The schedule is composed in the way that makes it possible for participants of the Division A to submit an application to the organizing committee to become lecturers (on the same conditions as invited lecturers). Teams select a division to participate in themselves. Aside from the overall standings, each division will have its own separate standings calculated, so winners of each division will also be rewarded.
The organizing fee is 34.000 rubles for citizens of countries of the Eurasian Economic Union and $640 for everybody else. This cost includes the curriculum, meals and accomodation in the MIPT campus, as well as the sports and travel programme for weekends. We are also ready to aid with Visas.
Participants and teams that are willing to take part in the training need to pass the preliminary registration. Registration extended until October 24, however if you need a visa in order to enter Russia, we urge you to register until October 12. Information for coaches: if you intend to send a team to the training but will not be sure which one until October 12, and in turn cannot pass the registration, please send us an application with specification of the number of participants to our email acm@phystech.edu
Our website: http://it-edu.mipt.ru/en/fall_training_2016
Our email: acm@phystech.edu
Overview of the Moscow International Workshop from Rubanenko.
Are there many international students who join this training camp?
My team went for the past two years. Can't recommend the camp enough. The problems are challenging, the lectures are interesting, and there are some fun excursions and activities. (Most of the lectures and solution analysis are given in Russian, but there are always printed notes in English that are detailed enough). The volunteers and the other contestants are a lot of fun, and I've made a lot of friends through that camp.
Unfortunately the camp is too close to our regional this year, NWERC, which starts Nov. 18th. Would love it if they could start the camp a few days earlier.
Isn't attending all days but the last one (or two last days) an option for you?
Perhaps, but based on how tired we've been after the previous camps it seems like a bad idea. Kind of defeats the purpose of going in the first place (to get better results at our regional). :)
CERC is also starting November the 18th, so that's the problem for pretty big part of Europe.
Thank you for your feedback. The factors that affect the workshop's dates depend both on the ACM ICPC Regionals and Russian Olympiads. Traditionally The Olympiad in Novosibirsk is to be held from 4 to 7 November where all strong Russian teams will participate, so we can't start earlier. But you (just like any other team from NWERC) can participate in the first two blocks of the workshop out of three and depart on November 15 in order to prepare to the Regionals. The scheme is: 3 study days (November 8, 9, 10) + 1 day off (November 11) + 3 study days (November 12, 13, 14) + 1 day off (November 15) + 3 study days (16, 17, 18 November). We are looking forward to seeing you in Moscow, so make up your mind! You will be provided with excellent practice right before the Regionals and still have several days left to rest.
Thanks for the schedule overview. We will give it a second thought.
Will the lectures be videotaped like CodeChef's Indian Programming Camp 2016?