Winners!
It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the contests!
Cartoon Caption Contest
Below are the finalists and winner (in bold) of the cartoon caption contests. The winners were voted on at the business meeting. Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption!
“For the xxii'th time, Marcus, n is not a number!”
Lars Rohwedder
Byzantine (dis?)agreement in linear time
“Hey, I tried”
"I am thinking of something like separate and subjugate, but we can decide on the name later...”
Baris Can Esmer
“Have you heard Rudolf grew an odd cycle?”
Francisco Pernice
We then extend our algorithm to the natural case of constant moosewidth
Lars Rohwedder
Alice: "Stop eating so much gelato, you should be worried about your treewidth."
Bob: "It's fine, I stay fit by cycling.”
Greg Rosenthal
Reverse Cartoon Caption Contest: "When in Rome..."
"When in Rome..." -Orr Fischer
"When in Rome/ExpanderTown..." -Inbar Ben Yaacov
"When in Rome..." -Lars Rohwedder (submitted as a block of TikZ code!)
Honorable mention for the cartoon caption contest goes to Mahdi Cheraghchi, who used DALLE-2 to generate many quite good captions and even a cartoon!
Puzzles
Thanks to everyone who worked on any of the puzzles! The meta-prize goes to both Thore Hosfeldt and Chris Jones for their fantastic puzzles!
Scavenger Hunt
Congratulations to the winning team STOCAvengers! Their complete solution to the scavenger hunt included this excellent picture!
Ceremony
Some photos of the Prize Ceremony, held during the STOC Business Meeting: