Two teams from Göttingen successful at NWERC’16
On the “North-West European Regional Contest” (NWERC 2016: http://www.nwerc.eu/) took place in Bath, England. As much as 114 top teams from Belgium, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands competed for the best computer solutions to 11 hard problems. In the German qualification round two teams from Göttingen Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik qualified for this IBM and J.P. Morgan sponsored programming contest. They both did a really, really good job:
- Team
Gauss - took place 21 among 114 top teams! and
- 5th among the 48 participating German teams!
- Team
_qsln - took place 48 among 114 top teams! and
- 14th among the German teams!
Detailed scores: see NWERC-website
Congratulations!! Right on, guys! And thanks to Bakhodir Ashirmatov who coached our teams!
Figure 1: Team Gauss (Daniel Homann, Julius Pätzold, and Fabian Chlumsky-Harttmann), coach Bakhodir Ashirmatov, and Team _qsln (Ole Reglitzki, Lorenz Glißmann, Marc Zöller)
Curious about programming sports?: Here is a short intro (updates coming soon): https://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~damm/pc/