IOI 2012: 4 participants from Russia - 4 gold!

    Yandex knows . Channel 24 Russia knows . Even on Channel One there is information . And here we sit and are silent with the whole blozic!
    Each of the participants in IOI 2012 from Russia brought a gold medal!

    If anyone does not know, then IOI is one of the most prestigious annual programming competitions in the world, which is held under the patronage of UNESCO and IFIP . At the competition, teams from around the world, consisting of four participants, solve algorithmic problems within two days.

    Russia at the Olympics this year was represented by Maxim Akhmedov and Oleg Ivanov from Moscow, Yegor Suvorov from St. Petersburg and Alexey Gordeev from Perm. All of them are winners of the All-Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren in computer science this year. They were accompanied by the permanent leaders of our team Kiryukhin Vladimir Mikhailovich and Tsvetkova Marina Serafimovna.

    It is not difficult for those who are interested to find information on tasks (there is an official website for this ), the progress of the Olympiad ( here , for example), and indeed almost any aspects of the event ( SnarkNews press release , team standings, and indeed anything - a search engine to help :)). Under the cut, I’ll try to tell you a little about the winners themselves, or rather, to give an idea of ​​how much different there was on their way to this Olympiad.

    Maxim Akhmedov Zlobober


    Graduate of SSC of Moscow State University, and now a first-year student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. The youngest member of our team recently brought us another gold medal (six months ago, he participated in the Open All-China Mathematical Olympiad ).
    Before the trip to the international Olympiad, Maxim and Oleg Ivanov went as teachers to the summer computer school (famous in certain circles of the LKS ).
    Oleg and I, for educational purposes, were placed by teachers in very junior parallels. We were teachers in C. These are very basic algorithms for those who know the language. And I was in C.py - this is a new experimental parallel, where teaching is conducted entirely on python.


    Egor Suvorov yeputons


    For three consecutive years, he celebrates his birthday at the winter training camp. She will continue to engage in sports programming, studying at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St. Petersburg State University. With high probability, IOI 2011 gold medalist Pavel Kunyavsky they will take part in the international competition ACM ICPC .

    Here is what Egor said before flying to Milan:
    Preparation ... Well ... Everyone knows the summer training camp (two weeks of intensive training), after that the ABBYY Cup (can also be considered training), and in general - to finish the old Olympics, some kind of online competition. Codeforces decide, solve and solve. In theory, I now cover everything that can be on IOI.

    It seems to me that solving problems is a fairly universal option, if theory is enough. And theories, it seems to me, should be enough for everyone to break into the top 4 in Russia.

    Now it is important to be prepared for stress, for nervousness. Oh yes. You can solve problems in a not very calm environment, for example, in the dining room. There is another extreme method - in the subway passage. I was told that this is how musicians train before concerts. Go into the transition and play. It turns out several times worse than in the exam, but then they mess up less.


    Oleg Ivanov


    The closing ceremony of the Olympiad took place just on the day of his coming of age :) Oleg will continue his studies at the VMK Moscow State University.

    Alexey Gordeev


    Lesha celebrated his coming of age at the final stage of the All-Russian Olympiad in Informatics , held in Kazan. Having taken 11th place, he did not expect to get into the national team, much less return from Italy with a gold medal, but he proved himself worthy at the summer training camp and entered the four members of the national team. From Sheremetyevo Airport, he went to the Leningrad Station. Since September 1, Alexei is a first-year student of the matmakh (as did Yegor Suvorov).

    Trainers


    The gold medalists of the IOI 2011 Alexander Timin and Pavel Kunyavsky went as coaches with the guys.
    Alexander is currently studying at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Pavel is studying at the St. Petersburg State University.

    Not only official trainers, but also other mentors are related to getting medals: Yuri Petrov, Sergey Kopeliovich, Ivan Kazmenko, Pavel Kunyavsky, Mikhail Pyaderkin, Roman Andreev and Ivan Smirnov.

    Literally from day to day, we will publish a debriefing of one of the olympiad tasks performed by Maxim Akhmedov, but for now let’s be happy for the guys and congratulate them :)

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