Sprouts 2025 Keynote and Afternoon Session Summaries
Kyle (noreply@blogger.com)
Yesterday was Sprouts 2025 . In the afternoon session, we had our keynote by Matt Ferland of Dickinson College and six student talks. Here are my (likely lacking) summaries of those talks. Matt Ferland, Keynote: "Supernim is Much Harder than Nim" Matt covered the Nim basics, then talked about superstars: games where all options are to nimbers. Supernim is, then, the ruleset of any sums of superstars. Matt talked about reductions to help relate computational problems. (He described this usin