[Contests] NWERC 2019

Hi, the NWERC 2019 will take place on November 15th to 17th in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. We can most likely send two or three teams. If you have never competed in GCPC, NWERC or similar contests, you find some additional information below. Since there may be more than 9 people who are interested, we will have to do a team selection. We will do at least two qualification contests where everyone competes alone, and the top ranked people in these qualification contests have to form teams and can go to NWERC. The deadline for team selection and registration is likely around November 1st. Please fill out https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/NWERC_training/ if you are interested. Ideally, there would be a qualification contest on the 12th or 13th and another one the weekend after that, and at least one training session after that before the registration deadline. A qualification contest or training session is realistically only possible on weekends and will take around 5 to 6 hours. Feel free to invite your fellow students to the competition. If you have never competed in a GCPC or NWERC, here is some more information: In the NWERC (http://www.nwerc.eu/) you will work in teams of up to three people on one(!) computer. There are about 10 tasks, and your goal is to solve as many of them as possible. You send in your solution as a program that is evaluated automatically on some secret test data. If the program is both correct and fast enough, you have solved the problem. The contest is 5 hours long. If you want to read some example problems, here are those from two years ago: https://open.kattis.com/contests/nwerc17open/problems Task B would be considered an easy task, while task I is harder. Allowed languages are C++, Java and Python. It is not guaranteed that Python is fast enough to solve every problem, but everything can be solved in C++ and Java. A computer will be provided to you. The operating system will be some Linux with common IDEs, editors and compilers installed. If there is a specific software you would like to use, please tell me; I can ask the organizers to install it. We bring a printed team reference document that usually contains code for common algorithms. Bringing further material (e.g. USB-Sticks, Smartphones, pdfs) to the contest or using the internet (except the contest system) are not allowed. We usually find sponsors for the travel and accommodation cost and there is no participation fee. To make the organization easier, we have a Telegram group chat. You can join here: https://t.me/joinchat/D8zIx0KN7cf7Y93QBN3nBw If you want to train, I recommend https://cses.fi/book/ (especially for beginners) and https://cp-algorithms.com/ People with previous IOI experience may want to learn about Maximum Flow and String Algorithms. Best, Julian