Results for UCSD Fall 2007 Programming Contest

Faculty Organizer: Prof. Michael Taylor
Lead Student Organizer: Michael Vrable

We had 33 students participate in the Fall 2007 UCSD Programming Contest. The contest consisted of 6 problems, and the top honors go to Keliang (Kevin) Zhao for being the only student to solve 4 problems. We had 1 students solve 4 problems, 6 students solve 3 problems, 9 students solve 2 problems, and 7 students solve 1 problem. 23 Pizzas were consumed. The most popular drinks were, in order of popularity, Bottled Water (by far), Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Sunkist, and Sprite.

Thanks goes to Mike Dini and The Dini Group for providing the prizes, food and drink, and support for the contest. Michael Vrable served as the lead student organizer. Nakul Verma and William Matthews assisted Michael Vrable in setting up the contest infrastructure. In addition to these three, Michael Van Biesbrouck, Peng Du, and Showan Kamruzzaman helped judge the contest.

The following are the top finishers:

Rank Name Solved Time

1 Keliang Zhao (G) 4 510

2 Timothy Bollman (4th+) 3 265

3 Kei Shun Ma (G) 3 282

4 Eli Friedman (2nd) 3 490

5 Taurin Tan-atichat (G) 3 526

6 Andrew Chain (4th+) 3 580

7 Aaron Barany (4th+) 3 679

8 Iman Sadeghi (G) 2 130

9 Rene Claus (2nd) 2 307

10 Nathan Bales (G) 2 341

11 Jerome Capelis (3rd) 2 422

12 Ivan Yulaev (2nd) 2 432

13 Erik Buchanan (G) 2 438

14 James Whiteside (4th+) 2 439

15 Elliott Slaughter (1st) 2 563

16 Jordan Rhee (2nd) 2 630

17 James Lintern (3rd) 1 54

18 Caleb Crawford (G) 1 100

19 Eric Levine (2nd) 1 277

20 Ginny Tice (3rd) 1 290

21 Randy Liu (4th+) 1 300

22 Andrew Prudhomme (4th+) 1 358

23 Dafna Bitton (4th+) 1 402

Keliang Zhao, First Place Winner, and Sponsor Mike Dini, of The Dini Group

Places 15-11 Places 10-7 Places 6-1

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