Monthly Archives: July 2012

Video of the finals

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Here we go: Full coverage of the final’s of IYPT 2012. Have fun watching!

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(Deutsch) Michael Kern holt mit seinem Team Silber beim Physik-Weltcup

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(Deutsch) Nachwuchsforscher probieren Bauchspiegelung aus

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(Deutsch) Medaillenregen und lobende Worte

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The Tournament ist closed

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The Award Ceremony took place on thursday. The winning teams received their medals.

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(Deutsch) Zum Abschluss gibts Lob und Medaillen

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Physics World Cup in Bad Saulgau: Tournament Winners Honoured

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The winners of this year’s Physics World Cup were honoured in Bad Saulgau on Thursday. The results of the preliminary rounds determined the winners of the gold medal. They were Iran, Singapore and South Korea. In the Final on Wednesday, in which each team presented one more problem, South Korea came out on top and was named “Winner of the Tournament”. The German team came in fifth place after Belarus and received the silver medal. According to the regulations places more…

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(Deutsch) Schüler bei Storz und Aesculap

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(Deutsch) Südkorea siegt in Saulgau

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(Deutsch) Korea gewinnt Physik-Weltcup

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Artikel auf Pro-Physik.de am 27.07.2012 Vollständiger Artikel…

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(Deutsch) Silber für das Deutsche Team

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The Finals are over

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Team Korea is Winner of the Tournament

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IYPT on regioTV

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There is a clip produced by regioTV.  

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(Deutsch) Bad Saulgau international

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The Finals of IYPT 2012

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Just like back in 2010, here are some notes and pictures taken during the finals: The teams of Korea, Singapore and Iran are getting ready! First we’ll hear WuHyun Sohn from Korea with his report on Problem 1. Gaussian cannon! President Alan Allinson is asking everybody in, the Stadtforum Bad Saulgau is completely filled, everything is prepared and the teams are getting ready! Introduction of the teams: Three former participants in the Jury: Ilya, Martin and Kathryn: Korea’s report hast more…

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(Deutsch) Schüler aus Südkorea triumphieren beim Physik-Weltcup in Bad Saulgau

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(Deutsch) Beste Werbung für die Stadt

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South Korea, Singapore and Iran winners of Physics World Cup

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The preliminary rounds of the International Young Physicists’ Tournament which determined the finalists ended today. Taking part in the final round tomorrow will be South Korea in first place with 227.1 points, Singapore in second place with 216.8 points and Iran in third place with 205.1 points. The teams in first to third places will receive gold medals since according to the rules all the finalists are awarded the gold. During the final round tomorrow the young researchers will be more…

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(Deutsch) Beim Physik-Weltcup der Schüler begegnen sich 28 Nationen

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Tournament Statistics

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I’m pretty sure you all like numbers a lot. Even more so if they’re used to count stuff: We printed and scanned about 1000 Scoring Guidelines, almost as many A4 pages with results and previews and another 900 pages of the report on the problems for 2013. There were 18 Beamers in use in the fight rooms, another two in our IT department, and about 5 spare. The fight assistants double checked every grade, we then again checked whether the more…

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Final: Korea, Singapore, Iran

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Just in case you haven’t heard yet: We’ll have a final of three teams, namely Korea, Singapore and Iran. They will now select their problems for tomorrow. Detailed results are available as usual here: http://results.iypt.org/IYPT2012/

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Metin Tolan on TV

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On Monday evening Mr. Tolan was on TV. The clip is available on the website of the SWR.  

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(Deutsch) 28 Nationen im Wettstreit um den Physik-Weltcup

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(Deutsch) Kluge Köpfe treten gegeneinander an

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(Deutsch) Berichterstattung über den ersten Tag des IYPT 2012 in Bad Saulgau

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(Deutsch) Physik-Weltcup in Bad Saulgau

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(Deutsch) Schavan will nationalen Physik-Wettstreit initieren

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(Deutsch) Einmalig in Europa

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(Deutsch) Genosschenschaftsbanken spenden 13.500 €

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(Deutsch) Physik-Weltcup in Bad Saulgau

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(Deutsch) Wettkampf der Physiktalente

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(Deutsch) 28 Nationen im Wettstreit um den Physik-Weltcup

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the clock

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Some have asked already whether they can get the clock. sure it’s open source (GPL3) and available here: http://intern.sfz-bw.de/~simeon.voelkel/gentoo/iyptclock-latest.tar.bz2 If you prefer something browser-based, here’s a clock Georg and I designed (also open source, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0): https://newtoon.iypt.org/init/static/clock.svg

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we had to find a way to get to the fight rooms quickly…

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problems from round 1

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This shows which problems were challenged. Red shows rejections, the numbers count how often they were accepted. oh, and seeing this graph, here’s one from our server, showing the traffic to and from the server that hosts iypt,org, newtoon, and the results:

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Physics World Cup Starts in Bad Saulgau

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28 teams from around the world are fighting for the title 21.07.2012  The International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT), the so called Physics World Cup, opened in Bad Saulgau on Saturday morning. It is taking place under the auspices of the German Physics Society (DPG), Bad Honnef and is being organized by the Student Research Center South Wuerttemberg (SFZ), Bad Saulgau. About 500 guests were invited, among them the participants from 28 countries and those accompanying the teams, representatives of companies more…

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The Tournament is open

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Teams and Flags

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28 nations arrived

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IYPT 2012 on TV

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On Saturday the IYPT 2012 was on TV. The clip is available on the website of the SWR.  

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Before the opening

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first results are in

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First results are in. They can be found at http://results.iypt.org/IYPT2012 and the scanned Scoring Guidelines that include the partial grades are available here: http://results.iypt.org/IYPT2012/SG/ Update: The previews for round 2. Overview for Round: 1 Rank Team TSP = 1 Korea 44.7 = 44.7 2 Singapore 40.1 = 40.1 3 Russia 38.7 = 38.7 4 Slovakia 38.5 = 38.5 5 Chinese Taipei 38.1 = 38.1 6 Switzerland 37.2 = 37.2 7 Belarus 36.7 = 36.7 8 Austria 36.5 = 36.5 9 Georgia 35.5 = 35.5 10 Germany 35.4 = 35.4 11 Iran 34.8 = more…

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Schedule

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Hey! We’re done with both the schedule for the teams (based on the drawing of lots) and the jury distribution (based on the team’s schedule). We did it in record time. Hopefully with a record minimum of mistakes too Here is the schedule, based on the drawing of lots and here we have the Jury Schedule.

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(Deutsch) Das Zittern gehört zum Job

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(Deutsch) Das Duell der Tüftler

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(Deutsch) Teams aus aller Welt kommen

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(Deutsch) Bad Saulgau ist der Nabel der jungen Physik-Welt

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(Deutsch) Junge Physiker sind bei den Guides in guten Händen

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(Deutsch) Eine Stadt in Physik!

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(Deutsch) So spannend ist Physik

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It’s all about the IYPT in Bad Saulgau

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The LOC must have been busy in the last few weeks: There are smaller and larger hints that the IYPT takes place in Bad Saulgau literally everywhere – here’s a few of them that I photographed so far: I was especially excited to see little exhibitions showing former IYPT problems, posters and experiments in the display-windows of local shops. I guess that’s the main advantage that a small city like Bad Saulgau has to offer – everyone including the city’s more…

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(Deutsch) Kreissparkasse spendet 20.000 € fürs IYPT

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(Deutsch) Veranstaltungen für die Öffentlichkeit

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(Deutsch) SFZ-Schüler prägen das deutsche Team

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(Deutsch) Biberacher und Langenauer treten bei Physik Weltcup an

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(Deutsch) Kampf mit Wissen und Können

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mascots

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A mascot, according to wikipedia, is “any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck”. Even though you’d expect these young physicist to despise the notion of luck, many teams have mascots, some already for many years. Probably the reason for that is the second meaning wikipedia gives: “anything used to represent a group with a common public identity”. So who are the brave mascots that “represent” some of the IYPT teams? Well, the first one I met was “Schrödigger more…

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the IYPT has (almost) started!

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The tournament officially starts when Alan Allinson opens it this Saturday. But for me the start is leaving home (though I must admit going from Graz to Bad Saulgau for the third time now is not too exciting any more) and switching to that deep IYPT mode, were everything else slowly fades away. Teams from all around the world, preparations, fights, sleep deprivation – it’s a very special blend of topics, feelings and impressions every year. Next time i’ll write more…

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(Deutsch) Physik-Weltcup startet in Deutschland unter Schirmherrschaft der DPG

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(Deutsch) Ab Freitag steht Bad Saulgau im Zeichen der Physik

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(Deutsch) 28 Nationen beim Physik Weltcup

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The Physics World Cup in Bad Saulgau

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The Physics World Cup in Bad Saulgau Tournament with students from 28 countries begins on July 20 Can you swim in a basin with air bubbles? Where do the light patterns come from that often form on the bottom of a swimming pool? Those who know the answer will not automatically win the International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT), the so called Physics World Cup which takes place in the Upper Swabian town of Bad Saulgau from 20-29 July. Only the more…

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(Deutsch) Physik-Weltcup startet in Deutschland unter Schirmherrschaft der DPG

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(Deutsch) Pressemitteilung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG)

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(Deutsch) Sechs Schüler aus ganz Deutschland bereiten sich in Tuttlingen für den Physik-Weltcup vor

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problems. and why there’s 17 of them.

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At the core of the IYPT there are the 17 problems that the teams work on for almost a year. They have been repeatedly credited as source of ideas for laboratory tasks, thematic activities in schools, graduation research projects, or even everyday physics teaching. They look like this one from 2012′s set: “A long string of beads is released from a beaker by pulling a sufficiently long part of the chain over the edge of the beaker. Due to gravity more…

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(Deutsch) Wettkampf der Physik-Talente

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(Deutsch) Physik-Weltcup: Deutsches Team trainiert im SFZ-Tuttlingen

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(Deutsch) Physik-Weltcup: Fußball-EM bremst Team der Ukraine

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(Deutsch) 17-jähriger startet beim Physik-Weltcup

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finals

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There’s always something special about the finals: It’s the time to give your peak performance. There’s an audience of your peers who all have worked on the problems you present, who are experts in what you report. Twice as many jurors who watch. All of them experienced, some of them university professors, some teachers, some are former participants. You get a microphone and a stage – and sometimes, there’s even a camera or two looking at you: 2009: 2010: 2011: more…

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(Deutsch) Executive Committee schaut sich die IYPT-Stätten an

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grading

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As promised last time, let’s think about the grading itself a bit. Back in 2010, without the help of our new Scoring Guidelines , the distribution of grades looked like this: The diagram, like this description taken from Ilya’s archive, shows the distribution parameters (population mean and standard deviation) for grades of individual jurors at the 23rd IYPT (2010.) The grades are averaged across all stages, performances, and PFs. The data clearly reveals that the individual grading standards vary among more…

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Scoring Guidelines

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The Scoring Guidelines were introduced at the IYPT last year in Iran. Martin Plesch actually gave an in-depth introduction that I made a video of, so in case you’re interested: Now of course this wasn’t something that the Executive Committee came up with during one of their short meetings. It really was a long process that eventually led us to what I consider a very reasonable and helpful guideline for both new and experienced jurors. As the minutes of the more…

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(Deutsch) Komittee koordiniert Physik-Weltcup

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more IYPT facts and trivia

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Hey! Not sure if I can keep up with writing this much for our blog – but then again there is a lot to say about IYPT: Our website has some information, a bit about the history for example. Then there is the excellent wikipedia article. The most impressive collection however is the work of Ilya Martchenko, located at archive.iypt.org: A massive archive dating back to 1979, including presentations, slides, papers and articles written for or about the IYPT. And more…

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the biggest IYPT ever – and some other numbers

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I like numbers and comparing things – that’s something I probably share with many IYPT participants. With newtoon we’ll have all sorts of stats about the tournament itself. But for now – let’s collect some facts and numbers about the IYPT 2012: It’s the biggest IYPT ever, with 28 different nations participating. But is Bad Saulgau the smallest city that has ever hosted the IYPT? One might think so, having had the IYPT in cities like Tehran, Vienna, Tianjin or more…

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