1-4 November, 2014. Fifty strongest Russian and CIS students’ teams are to compete in the face-to-face XV All-Siberian Open Programming Olympiad named after I.V. Pottosin held in Novosibirsk.
The contest aims to develop young people's interest in doing research, especially in the fields of informatics and programming, identify talented youth, involve them at early stages into solving research problems and train them to collaborate in order to develop projects at both theoretical and applied levels in a team. 373 teams from 6 countries, 70 cities, 92 colleges and universities and 43 schools competed in the internet elimination rounds, with 50 of those teams proceeding to the finals, which take place in Novosibirsk. NSU welcomes teams from Abakan, Barnaul, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Omsk, Samara, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Tyumen and others. The participants present leading Russian and CIS universities, and some teams previously became winners and runners-up of international programming contests, such as ACM-ICPC (Association for Computing Machinery - International Collegiate Programming Contest).
While selecting the teams for the finals, the jury adhered to the following principles:
• based on the internet elimination rounds, all the teams solving at least 6 problems but not more than 3 teams per institution were invited; • so that all the regions and universities were presented, there were 8 teams with 5 problems solved invited; • according to the quotes for Siberia and the Far East (not less than half of the participants), there were 28 teams invited which include: all the teams with at least 4 problems solved, teams of all the universities except NSU which solved 3 problems and 4 teams solving 2 problems as they are to present universities of the region.
Together with the sponsors of XV All-Siberian Open Programming Olympiad named after I.V. Pottosin, NSU assigned awards for the winners: 1 place – 150,000 rub.; 2 place – 120,000 rub.; 3 place – 90,000 rub.
The sponsors of the event include such well-known IT companies as Parallels, Facebook, Schneider Electric, SKB Kontur, Ledas Ltd., Excelsior and Yandex.
Scheduling: 1 November (Saturday) 17:30 – 19:00 Opening Ceremony at the House of Scientists, Small Conference Hall
2 November (Sunday) 10:00 – 15:00 Contest of 2 nomination (ACM)
3 November (Monday) 10:00 – 15:00 Contest of 1 nomination
4 November (Tuesday) Closing Ceremony 10:30 – 12:00 Victory and prize-giving ceremony at the House of Scientists, Small Conference Hall
