A team from the JU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science featuring Antoni Długosz, Kacper Paciorek, and Kacper Topolski has won the Central European regional edition of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC CERC), which took place on 8–10 December in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The team managed to solve 10 out of 12 problems, beating the teams from the University of Warsaw and University of Wrocław (both successfully completed 9 tasks). Aside from programming skills and quick thinking, competitors from JU have shown they had nerves of steel: during the last hour of the five hour-long contest, they solved four problems, catching up to the leading teams and astonishing the audience.
By winning the European regional competition, the JU programmers ensured their participation in the International Collegiate Programming Contest, meaning they will fight for the world championship that will take place in the autumn of 2024 in Kazakhstan.
This is the second win for the Jagiellonian University in the competition, and also the second success for the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in this season: the same team has won the national championship in November. Antoni Długosz, Kacper Paciorek and Kacper Topolski are students of Analytical Computer Science and Mathematics.
A second JU team, composed of Justyna Jaworska, Jan Klimczak and Rafał Pyzik, was also very successful, managing to take 6th place in the ICPC CERC. Like their colleagues, they have also won a gold medal in the Polish national championship.
There were a total of nine sets of medals awarded during the ICPC CERC (2 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze), which went to two teams each from the Jagiellonian University, University of Warsaw and the University of Wrocław as well as teams from Zagreb, Budapest and Riga.
Other JU teams who participated in the contest included:
- Filip Konieczny, Łukasz Orski, Jacek Markiewicz – 16th place
- Tomasz Mazur, Katzper Michno, Hubert Zięba – 19th place
- Aliaksei Mamonau, Ihar Maroz, Uladzimir Marozau – 39th place
The teams were supervised by Dr Lech Duraj and Krzysztof Potępa.
Full ranking is available at the contest’s official website.
