Activities

From 14:30 until 18:00 on Saturday

Registration for an activity is possible through the form which can be found in the last information e-mail that was sent out on Tuesday the 22nd of November.

There are limited capacities for each activity, so full = full. For the canal tours, it is important to be on time at the boat location as the tour boat will leave on time. NB: choosing an activity is optional, you are also free to use the activity afternoon as you see fit and thus not fill in this form.

The following options are available (you can choose only one):

  • Church Tour + Canal Cruise

You will first visit the Old Church of Delft (Google Maps link) after which you get a boat tour through the Delft canals. For the 15:00-17:00 shift, your cruise leaves at 16:00. For the 16:00-18:00 shift, your cruise leaves at 17:00. Google Maps link to location where the boats leave.

  • Canal Cruise

You will get a boat tour through the Delft canals. Note that the starting time of the activity is the time your boat will leave. Google Maps link to where the boat leaves.

  • Delft City Centre Tour

You will get a booklet with a tour you can take on your own accord through the city centre of Delft.

  • Rotterdam City Centre Tour

You will get a booklet with a tour you can take on your own accord through the city centre of Rotterdam. You will recieve an e-ticket to travel to and from Rotterdam by train.

  • Rotterdam Natural History Museum Visit

You will get the chance to visit the Natural History Museum (Google Maps link) in Rotterdam. You will recieve an e-ticket to travel to and from Rotterdam by train.

  • Beer Tasting in Local Delft Brewery

You will visit the local Delft brewery ‘de Koperen Kat’, or, in English, ’the Copper Cat’, (Google Maps link) and you will get to sample a few different beers they make there.

  • Jetbrains Workshop

At the contest venue, Jetbrains will host a workshop.

> How and why to become ICPC World Champion (Pavel Kunyavskiy, 2014 ICPC World Champion)

I’ll try to share some personal experience on the non-technical part of the ICPC competitions, and why competing in them can be useful for your future.

> JetBrains Internship (Maria Andreeva, Project Coordinator in Internships)

> JetBrains (and) Research (Anton Podkopaev, Head of Programming Languages and Tools lab @ JetBrains Research)

From time to time, industry needs academic research, and not all of it happens in universities. In this talk, we will chat about JetBrains Research, which does both applied and fundamental research in Computer Science, how it helps to make JetBrains products better and why it is essential for JetBrains’ educational projects.

  • Huawei Workshop

At the contest venue, Huawei will host a workshop.

Cruel World of Concurrent Beasts – Concurrency Challenges in System Software, by speaker Diogo Behrens. To take most performance out of the modern CPUs, developers have to make their algorithms aware of hardware peculiarities, such as caches, cores, etc. That greatly complicates implementations. As a developer, one has to face the dilemma between easy reasoning and best performance. In this talk, we will review challenges often neglected in university courses: concurrency, weak memory models, and NUMA domains. My goal is to raise your awareness to these issues and motivate you to think on how to tackle them in your future career.

We provide the prize at Q&A session for the wonderful answers: Huawei Freebuds!