Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics

Training Schedule

Important: The following is subject to change. Please visit this page frequently to get the most up-to-date information.

Training time and venue:

AM session: 10:00-13:00
PM session: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Room 308, Chow Yei Ching Building, The University of Hong Kong

Date Topic (Advanced) Topic (Intermediate) PM Session
2009-01-03 Solution to HKOI2009 Final Event Problems,
Basic commands of linux in OI
Algorithms, OI Style Programming
2009-01-10 Advanced Data Structures Data Processing and String Processing Introduction to C++ (I)
2009-01-24 Advanced Graph Modeling and Searching Recursion and Exhaustion
Introduction to C++ (II)
2009-02-07 Shortest Path and Minimum Spanning Tree Mathematics for OI
Mini Competition 1
2009-02-21 Advanced Mathematics in OI Searching and Sorting
2009-03-14 Exhaustion, Branch and Bound, Divide and Conquer Greedy Algorithms, Divide and Conquer
2009-03-28 Advanced Dynamic Programming (I) Introduction to Graph Theory Mini Competition 2
2009-04-25 Advanced Dynamic Programming (II) Data Structures Mini Competition 3
2009-05-09 APIO 2009
2009-05-23 Computational Geometry Review & Problem Discussion
2009-05-30 IOI/NOI Team Formation Test
2009-06-27 Dynamic Programming
2009-07-04 Graph Theory
2009-07-11 Network Flow
2009-07-18 Advanced Data Structure II
2009-07-25 Problem Discussion

Notes:

1. Advanced/Intermediate class: Intermediate training sessions are designed for students who are new to the training team. However, students who are not new to the training team but find themselves unfamiliar with the topics can choose to attend Intermediate training sessions. Advanced training sessions are designed for students who have previously attended Intermediate training sessions.

2. The afternoon sessions are open to all trainees.

3. The Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad will be held on 9 May 2009. The training session "Computational Geometry" has been rescheduled to 23 May 2009, and the session "Review & Problem Discussion" originally in morning of 23 May 2009 has been rescheduled to the afternoon.

4. The training venue for 18 July will be Room 313 instead of Room 308.