Minutes of the Meetings of the International Board during the 44th International Physics
Olympiad in Copenhagen, Denmark
July 7 – 15, 2013

1. A total number of 374 contestants from the following 82 countries were present at the44th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO):
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia &Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech
Republic,
Denmark,
Ecuador,El
Salvador,
Estonia,
Finland,France,Georgia,
Germany,
Greece,HongKong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan,Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru*,
Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Saudi
Arabia,Serbia,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,
South Africa,
Spain,
SriLanka,
Suriname,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,
Taiwan,Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam.
* participated by leaders, but no student.
2. Results of marking papers by the organizers were presented.
The best score (47.0 points) was achieved by Mr. Attila Szabó from Hungary (the overall winnerof the 44th IPhO). The following minimal points for awarding the medals and the honorable
mention were established according to the Statutes:
Gold Medal
Silver MedalBronze Medal
Honorable Mention

38.6 points
29.5 points
21.5 points
16.7 points

According to the above minima, 41 Gold Medals, 64 Silver Medals, 101 Bronze Medals, and 64
Honorable Mentions were awarded. The grade lists of the awardees were distributed to all thedelegation leaders in print.
3. In addition to the regular prizes, the following special prizes were awarded:
The Overall Winner
Mr. Attila Szabó, Hungary

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The Best in Theory
Mr. Attila Szabó, Hungary

The Best in Experiment
Mr. Calvin Lin Huang, USASpecial Prizes of European Physical Society
Ms.
Katerina
Mr. Attila Szabó, Hungary

Marinova

Naydenova,

Bulgaria

Special Prizes of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
Ms.
TranThiThu
Mr. Zhang Chengkai, People`s Republic of China

Huong,Vietnam4. The following three leaders were designated by the International Board (IB) to serve asconsultants to the local academic committee for grading the examination papers :Prof. Jaan Kalda (Estonia), Prof. Askar Davletov (Kazakhstan), and Prof. Matthew Verdon(Australia),
5. The President of IPhOs, Prof. Hans Jordens, proposed to invite Kazakhstan to host the IPhO in2014 to replace the originally arranged hosting country, Slovenia, who had withdrawn fromorganizing the IPhO2014 for economic reasons. The proposal was unanimously accepted by theInternational Board. The President expressed his gratitude to Kazakhstan Government for her
kind and timely support to keep the continuity of conducting IPhO.

6. The representative of the Indian delegation, Prof. Vijay Singh, reconfirmed the hosting ofIPhO2015 in India and gave a short presentation about the ongoing preparation for the event.
7. The President of IPhOs announced the formal establishment of a legal body of fund-raisingbank account, “The Foundation of International Physics Olympiad ”, which was affiliated toIPhO. He nominated, for the time being, Prof. Yohanes Surya from Indonesia as the treasurer.
During the IB meeting in the next IPhO 2014, the IB will take a vote on the rules for the electionof the treasurer. The elections for the treasurer will be held during the IPhO 2015. The President
had used part of the donated fund of the Foundation to support Cuba team to participate in thisOlympiad by offering two roundtrip air flight tickets to Copenhagen.

8. The International Board discussed a proposal on amending the Article #5 of the IPhO Statutes
about using pocket calculator in the contest. The proposal was drafted by the calculatorcommittee composed of Dr. Matthew Verdon (Australia), Dr. Eli Raz (Israel), and Dr. Martin
Swift (Iceland), who were designated by the IPhO Secretariat. This proposal wasoverwhelmingly carried by 114 votes to 12. The total number of IB members present at themeeting was 138. The concerned part of the Article #5 of the IPhO Statutes has been amended as
the following:“Contestants may bring into the examination drawing instruments and approved calculators. No
other aids may be brought into the examination.”
Additionally, the Regulations to the Article #5 of the IPhO Statutes have been amended byadding the following new sentences:“A calculator shall be an approved calculator if it is not a graphical calculator, its display has
no more than three lines, and if its user memory is completely cleared immediately prior to eachexamination.
The host country may provide calculators to students which are approved calculators. If thecountry chooses to do this then the team leaders of the countries attending IPhO must be advisedof the exact model at least two months in advance of the competition. Students who bring theirown approved calculators shall be permitted to use them.”
9. The International Board discussed a proposal submitted by Prof. Jaan Kalda ( the principalorganizer of IPhO2012 in Estonia), regarding the amendment of the Regulations to the Article #4of IPhO Statutes, concerning the voluntary fee. After the earlier discussions in the Advisory
Committee, there were two different versions of the amendment on the issue of voluntary fee as
the following, along with the concerned current regulation of the IPhO Statutes:
Current
Regulation:"The host country may ask the delegations for a voluntary contribution to the obligatory costs.“
Version
1:"The host country may ask the delegations for a voluntary contribution to the obligatory costs,
Those delegations which have not made the requestedcontribution are not eligible to send
observers and visitors.“
Version
2:"The host country may ask the delegations for a contribution to the obligatory costs. Delegations
with economic difficulties may ask waving this fee by sending a motivated appeal to
theSecretariat of the IPhO."
The version 2 was carried by 98 votes to 33; while the version 1 was rejected with 63 votes infavour and 65 votes against.
10. For revising the current Syllabus of IPhO, the President invited the following six leaders toform a “Syllabus Committee”:

Dr. Lasse Franti (Finland), Dr. Helmuth Mayr (Austria), Dr. Stefan Petersen (Germany), Dr.
Matthew Vernon (Australia), Dr. Andrzej Kotlicki (Canada), and Dr. Jaan Kalda (Estonia)
11. The Secretary of IPhOs, Prof. Ming-Juey Lin, on behalf of the IPhO Secretariat, reported theprocess and result of the election of IPhO Presidency. Since there was only one candidate, Prof.
Hans Jordens, for the election of the new IPhO President, according to the IPhO Statutes, theSecretary officially announced that Prof. Hans Jordens was accepted as the new President ofIPhOs for the next five-year term from 2013 to 2018.
12. The current Secretary of IPhOs will have his term expired in 2014. According to the IPhO
Statutes, the election of the new Secretary of the term 2014-2019 will be held in next IPhO inKazakhstan.
13. On behalf of all the participants, the President of IPhOs expressed his gratitude to Prof. Niels
Hartling (Head of the Organizing Committee), Prof. Henrik Bruus (Head of the AcademicCommittee), Dr. Christian Thune Jacobsen, Prof. Jens Paaske. Dr. Jens Ulrik Lefmann, Dr.
Michael Clasen Jacobsen and all other members involved in organizing the IPhO2012 forexcellent preparation and conduction of the 44th International Physics Olympiad. Deep thanks
were also conveyed to the Danish Ministry of Children and Education, Technical University ofDenmark, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and all the sponsors, graders, guides
and other people who contributed to the success of the Olympiad.

14. The Kazakhstan delegates disseminated printed materials about the 45th IPhO in 2014 to all
the delegations and described present state of the preparatory works to ensure smoothorganization of the next Olympiad.
15. At the Closing Ceremony of the Olympiad, on behalf of the organizers of the next
International Physics Olympiad, Dr. Yernur Rysmagambetov announced that the 45thInternational Physics Olympiad would be held in Astana, Kazakhstan from July 13 to 21, 2014
and cordially invited all the participating countries to attend the competition.

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Prof.
Ming-JueyProf.
Hans
Jordens Secretary of IPhOs
President of IPhOs………………...
Prof.
Niels
Hartling
Head of the Organizing Committee
Linof the IPhO2013

Copenhagen, Denmark, July 14, 2013