YSU team participates in ICPC World Finals 2024

This year, over 73,000 students from more than 3,500 universities across 100 countries participated in the preliminary phase of the ICPC, the most prominent student programming olympiad. The finalists consisted of the top 142 university teams, each comprising three students and one coach.

Yerevan State University team earned its place in the contest after succeeding in the semifinals held in December 2023. In the contest held from September 15 to 20, the team from Yerevan State University was represented by Samvel Andreasyan, a first-year master's student from the Faculty of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Hamlet Petrosyan, a second-year undergraduate student, and Robert Kocharyan, a first-year master's student from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics.

Also present at the event were YSU Rector Hovhannes Hovhannisyan and Professor Vahram Dumanyan, a lecturer at the Chair of Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modeling, who is also the Armenian Regional Contents Director of ICPC. 

The duration of the main phase was 5 hours, during which teams of 3 members, using a single computer, had to solve at least 8 (and sometimes up to 15) tasks. The tasks were algorithmically complex. For each task, the jury prepared a set of tests. The task was considered solved if the program gave the correct answer for all the test cases. Solutions were submitted to an automated testing and validation system. In case of a tie, the time taken to solve the tasks and the number of failed attempts will be considered.

The results of the ICPC World Finals 2024 can be found here.