Sprouts is a Combinatorial Games Conference oriented towards undergraduate research, created as a joint collaboration between the University of New England and Plymouth State University. Sprouts is also a combinatorial game that is especially popular in the Netherlands.
Events in Memorial 312 unless otherwise noted.
A game InfiniTiles has been designed to simulate a Turing machine using Wang Tiles. In InfiniTiles, players each receive a set of tiles and take turns placing them down to fill a board. Theoretically, if the game were played on an infinite board, the game could continue forever, and with some tile sets, it is impossible to tell whether or not this will happen. A variant of this game, InfiniTafl, will follow the tiling idea in InfiniTiles and the idea of Tafl, in which two players, an Escaper and Attacker, have two different goals. This changes the outcome from certain tile sets, which have a known outcome in InfiniTiles. These outcomes and the idea of undecidability are discussed in this presentation.
Hnefatafl is a grid, escape game traced back to as early as the 4thcentury A.D. Here we analyze an impartial variant of the game, Nimtafl, focusing on mainly winning positions and strategies.
Craig will show basic use of CGSuite up through implementing a new ruleset so everyone can use this powerful tool.
Computational complexity is an important aspect of understanding combinatorial games. The complexity of the game SlimeTrail is shown.
There is no cost to register for this conference. Please email Kyle () if you plan to attend, so we can plan ahead for you. We'll do whatever we can to accommodate as many people as possible. We don't expect more than 30, but we'll be happy to include whomever we can.
The two closest hotels to Plymouth State are the Common Man Inn (.7 miles from campus) and the Fairfield Inn (2.3 miles from campus).
The best parking lot to use is Lot 304 (the "Hyde Lot"), located on the east side of Langdon St between High St and Merrill St. Entrances to the lot are on Langdon St and Merrill St. Maps:
No parking pass is needed during the day for the conference.
Thanks to the Plymouth State Department of Computer Science and Technology for providing us with space for the talks and for funding the conference dinner.
Conference photos will be posted here afterwards.
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