Thanks to all participants of the CompProg ICPC Selection Contest 2021 and congratulations for the great performance!
Here are the Winners of the contest (in each category):
Grad Category
- Mohit Khandelia (CS)
- Daniil Glukhovskiy (Math)
- Rohan Chhabra (CS)
Senior Category
- Kenny Zhang (CS)
- Daniel Wu (CS)
- Calvin Aw (Math/CS)
Junior Category
- Greg Zborovsky (CS)
- Benny Liu (CS)
- Raymond Ren (CS)
WiCS Choice Award
- Batul Merchant (CS)
Honorable Mention (ranked among the top 10 overall)
- Andrew Burford (CS)
- Antonio Frigo (AMS/Physics)
- Saajid Chowdhury (Physics/Math)
The entire ranklist along with the problems solved by each contestant and the time penalty can be found here:
https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/2021-sbu-compprog-selection-contest/leaderboard
The Problem Set:
The set of problems specifically designed for this contest (along with problem setter's and validator's names) is as follows. All problems as well as the editorial are attached to this email. They are also available on the CompProg website along with pictures from the event.
A. Baking Rivalry (Shawn Mathew / Yimin Zhu)
B. Lighting the Way (Allen Kim / Astra Kolomatskaia)
C. Weird Programming Contest (Tanzir Islam Pial / Shawn Mathew)
D. By Association (Astra Kolomatskaia / Jiarui Zhang)
E. Late Night Snacking (Shawn Mathew / Yimin Zhu)
F. Help Meow-t (Michael Wolf-Sonkin / Tanzir Islam Pial)
G. Hacking ATMs (Yimin Zhu / Allen Kim)
H. Quads (Jiarui Zhang / Jubayer Rahman)
Acknowledgements
I thank all of our problem setters/judges for their hard work and efforts in writing problems, solutions, and alternate solutions for each problem. Special thanks to Zafar Ahmad for handling the logistics of food and prizes. I also thank our faculty advisor Prof. Rezaul Chowdhury for curating the problem set.
I'd like to thank our collaborator WiCS for helping us with the poster and spreading word of the event!
Of course, this all could not have been possible without our sponsor: Stony Brook Computer Science Department. Thanks to CS Chair Prof. Samir Das and CS Director of Development Joshua Weil.
Special thanks to Kathy Germana (CS), Andrew Solar-Greco (CS), Emily Brosnan (CS), Jennifer McCauley (IACS), and Ann Gardner (IACS) for helping with rooms, catering, and advertisement!