Once again this year, the Computer Science Department of the University of Geneva had the pleasure of sending an outstanding team to the SWERC/ICPC programming competition to Lyon from Friday, November 21 to Sunday, November 23.

 

The ICPC competition (https://icpc.global/) is one of the most prestigious international programming competitions between universities and institutes, which send teams consisting exclusively of undergraduate students to participate. SWERC (https://swerc.eu) is the regional contest of the ICPC competition for Switzerland, France, Israel, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

 

 

A total of 12 problems were presented in the competition, for which the teams were given five hours to work on them with the aim of finding and coding an efficient solution algorithm for as many problems as possible as quickly as possible.

 

The UNIGE team achieved an excellent 35th place out of a total of 142 teams and solved the same number of problems as their colleagues from EPFL, for example. The medal winners of the competition solved between 8 and 11 of the 12 problems. The UNIGE team solved a total of 7 problems, putting them just behind. The scoreboard can be found here: https://swerc.eu/2025/theme/scoreboard/

 

The UNIGE team was supported in advance by weekly meetings of the Department of Computer Science's SWERC working group (https://moodle.unige.ch/course/view.php?id=19174) and during the competition on site, in particular by co-coach Marco Sorbi (Ph.D. Student, RISIS, CUI) and coach Dr. Julia Buwaya (lecturer, ALGO group).

 

The Department of Computer Science congratulates the participants on their placement and thanks them for their commitment!