In the 2022 annual NSUCRYPTO Cryptography Olympiad, NSU results in the individual round included third-degree diplomas in the “schoolchildren” category won by SESC NSU students Mikhail Baev and Yegor Desyatkov. Their main rivals were schoolchildren from the UK and Singapore. In the “students” category, Konstantin Romanov, a student at the NSU Department of Information Technologies received a second-degree diploma, and a third-degree diploma was awarded to Viktor Panshin, a student at the NSU Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. NSU ITD PhD student Roman Lebedev was awarded a second-degree diploma in the first round of the “professionals” category. He outperformed participants from Germany, Belgium, and Hungary.
In the second round, a team of students from the NSU MMD, Alexander Bakharev, Rinchin Zapanov, and Denis Bykov, were awarded a first degree diploma. They outperform rivals from Romania, Vietnam, and Hungary, as well as strong teams from other Russian cities.
Bakharev talked about the competition,
The Olympiad consisted of 11 tasks of varying complexity. They were united by the common theme of cryptography. What was unique in this Olympiad were the modern cryptography open problems. The NSUCRYPTO team stage is a great opportunity to find like-minded people and spend a productive week studying various areas of cryptography and solving Olympiad problems.
A detailed list of winners is published on the Olympiad website.
NSUCRYPTO is an official international Olympiad, the number of award-winning students influences a university's entry into the RAEX-100 ranking of the best universities in Russia. Olympiad winners are awarded the right to a free education in the English-speaking NSU Master’s Program.
The Olympiad organizers are the Cryptographic Center (Novosibirsk), the International Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk State University, the University of Leuven (Belgium), Tomsk State University, Belarusian State University, Sophia Kovalevskaya North-West Mathematical Research Center, and the Kryptonit company.
The program committee consists of experts in various fields of cryptography from Russia, USA, and several European countries.
