NWERC 2021

The Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) center is hosting contestants in Northwestern Europe Regional Contest 2021 (NWERC) arranged by Reykjavík University, part of the International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Due to the pandemic, NWERC will happen on-line, but we hope to recreate some of the atmosphere of the normal physical event for interested teams from nearby universities.

Location

H. C. Ørsted Institute at University of Copenhagen. Entrance in the north-west corner. Doors are locked during the weekend, but participants will receive contact information to the local organisers who can let them in.

Schedule

Saturday November 20

9.00-15.00 NWERC practice session and more (on-line). Teams are on their own.
16.00 Doors open. Teams can test their setup.
17.00 Welcome to BARC and Copenhagen (Mikkel Thorup and Rasmus Pagh). Short scientific talks about algorithms research (Thore Husfeldt, Joakim Blikstad, Radu Curticapean, and Christian Lebeda).
18.00 Dinner (provided) followed by drinks, snacks, and socialising with the other teams.

Sunday November 21

9.00 Doors open. Teams can test their setup, wifi (eduroam), electricity.
10.00-15.00 Competition. Balloons, snacks, drinks, coffee, and lunch is provided.
15.00-ca. 17 Live-stream of presentation of results.

Participating teams

(1,1)-pølse (NTNU, Trondheim, NO)
2b || !2b (ITU, DK)
Ballondyrene (KU, DK)
Code blooded (DTU, DK)
Coolness overflow (Aarhus Universitet, DK)
Ctrl Alt Elite (ITU, DK)
ecpc (Lund University, SE)
First class confusion (Bergen Universitet, NO)
Hold Afstand (Aarhus Universitet, DK)
Kaptain Tim og algo-disiplene (Bergen Universitet, NO)
Library of Babel (Oslo Universitet, NO)
NihilAi (Linköping University, SE)
proggecribben (NTNU, Trondheim, NO)
scream&cout (KU, DK)
SebbiASK56 (Lund University, SE)
sigma bools (Linköping University, SE)
Stroustrups Smukke Hår (DTU, DK)
Suits (KU, DK)
tar-san (Lund University, SE)
The floor is made of Java (DTU, DK)
U+1F40D (Aarhus Universitet, DK)
We are just here for the balloons (ITU, DK)

Local organization

Anne Primdahl Kristensen
Christian Janos Lebeda
Gabriel Niels Damsholt
Jakob Bæk Tejs Knudsen
Joakim Blikstad
Jonas Østergaard Klausen
Krzysztof Nowicki
Rasmus Pagh (chair)
Thore Husfeldt

Registration (deadline has passed)

Only student teams that have been appointed as participants by their university and their coach can participate. For capacity reasons we limit participation to universities in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, on a first-come first-served basis. We ask that the NWERC coach at each participating university emails a list with the following information to Anne Primdahl Kristensen no later than November 11:

• Name of each team

• Names and e-mail addresses of all team members

• Which teams will participate in the program on Saturday evening

• Information on any dietary restrictions

• Whether the coach will participate

Registration to the NWERC competition itself is done separately.