News:
Call for participation
Preliminary registration is open!
Schedule - to be annonced.
Referenced training camp at SWERC2018
Presentation :
The
IRIT
organizes this year the fourth edition of the World Champions Programming School at Toulouse (WCPS2018).
Previous editions of WCPS series:
The WCPS is a crash-course on competitive programming conducted by the instructors, and an experienced student team from ITMO.
The University ITMO is the multiple award-winning university of St Petersburg (ACM ICPC World Champions in 2004, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017). Instructors of WCPS2017 won the world championship held the 24/05/2017 in Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.
This course is intended for students and programmers who wish to improve their programming/algorithmic skills, and more specifically for those who wish to train for advanced programming competitions (such as ACM ICPC Contests). To take benefit from this crash-course, the main prerequisite is that each participant/team is fluent with at least one of the following languages : C/C++/Java. Knowledge about some classical algorithms is also recommended.
The course will be in english, it will alternate lab training sessions with problem analysis lectures (see the preliminary schedule). During lab sessions, the work on computers will be organised with teams of 1, 2 or 3 persons.
All the event will take place at
the UPS campus,
118 route de Narbonne, Tolouse.
Instructors
The instructors come from ITMO university at St.Petersburg, Russia. This year instructors will be annonced ASAP, but usually they are former members and current coaches of the ITMO team.
Important dates :
- Crash-course dates: October 29 - November 2, 2018
Prepare your self with last year exercises!
- The day by day problems of previous editions can be found here.
Organising Committee :
- Sergei Soloviev (IRIT)
- Armelle Bonenfant (IRIT)
- Jose G Moreno (IRIT)
- Eric Thierry (ENS Lyon)
- Lidia Perovskaya (ITMO)
- Jan Malakhovski (ITMO/UPS)
Registration :
Registration is free but mandatory. Please fill the following application
form to submit your application.
It is free but does not cover lodging expenses in Toulouse. Due to the late call for participation, applicants are advised to fill the form as soon as possible to get a confirmation of their registration and to organise their stay. In case of difficulties to find an accommodation, please contact us.
Directions and hotels in Toulouse :
Some information may be found
here.
Contact :
Sergei.Soloviev{at}irit.fr (replace {at} by @)
Jose.Moreno{at}irit.fr (replace {at} by @)