BOSPRE 2000 Schedule: 8:30 - 9:45am: checkin, get assigned rooms and terminals, practice at your terminal using your contest account. (8:30am - 9am we will be setting up so expect delays if you are this early.) 9:45am - 9:55am: VERY short meeting in G115 solely to introduce the people running the contest and answer questions. In theory, everything you really need to know will be in the handouts which you have read. 9:55am - 10:00am Teams go to their terminals. 10:00am - 3:00pm the contest proper. The contest will start with the problems being handed out to the contestants at their terminals at 10:00am sharp. After the contest starts, the contestants can run hpcm_get to set up their problem directories. about noon: catered lunch for the contestants. Please eat OUTSIDE the computer labs. noon: restaurant lunch for the coaches with Prof. Steven Gortler 3:30pm - 4:00pm final meeting to announce winners in G115 DO NOT eat in the computer labs. The food in the lobby is for you guys: eat, drink, and work hard. You can eat in the halls if you must. Teams may use G115 or G125 to hold meetings or as a quiet work area. The judge can be seen in B127. We will put a scoreboard up in the lobby `fishbowl', front right. The team accounts and locations are: hc3-bpc1 Boston College B121 rear left hc3-bpc2 Concordia X B123 rear right hc3-bpc3 Concordia Y B133 rear right hc3-bpc4 Middlebury Blue B123 front left hc3-bpc5 Middlebury White B121 rear right hc3-bpc6 Wellesley Whompers B133 front right hc3-bpc7 Bridgeport-2 B121 front left hc3-bpc8 Wellesley Wombats B133 front left hc3-bpc9 UMass Amherst B123 rear left (I used my son's 12 sided dice to assign these - BW) Note: 7 of the 8 problems were contributed by Tomas Rokicki (formerly) of MIT.