Minutes of the Meetings of the International Board during the 35th International Physics
Olympiad in Pohang (South Korea)
July 15 – 23, 2004

1. The following 71 countries were present at the 35th International Olympiad:
Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia& Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, The
Czechlands, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France(*), Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece(*),
Hong Kong (**), Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan,Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova,Mongolia, The Netherlands, Nigeria(**), Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Serbia & Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain,Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA and Vietnam.
(*) – rejoined the competition after at least three years’ gap in participation(**) – new countries invited by the Organizing Committee to the Olympiad this year
In addition, two countries were represented by observers: Japan and Sri Lanka.
As Kenya has not participated in three last Olympiads, the next organizers are not obliged toinvite it to the competition (According to #2 of the Statutes such countries should be treated as“new” countries in the future).

2. Results of marking the papers by the organizers were presented.
The best score (47.70 points) was achieved by Alexander Mikhalychev from Belarus (Absolutewinner of the 35th IPhO). The following limits for awarding medals and honourable mentions
were established according to the Statutes:
Gold Medal
Silver Medal
Bronze Medal
Honourable Mention

39 points
34 points
25 points
18 points

According to these limits 31 Gold Medals, 35 Silver Medals, 68 Bronze Medals and 82
Honourable Mentions were awarded. The list of the scores of the winners and the students
awarded with honourable mentions were distributed to all the delegations.

3. In addition to the regular prizes the following special prizes were awarded:*forthebestscore(Absolutewinner)
Alexander
Mikhalychev(Belarus)*for the best score in theexperimental partof the competition:PeterKomar(Hungary)*forthebestscore
inthe
theoreticalpartofthecompetition:
Yali
Miao(China)*forthebestscore
amongfemale
participants:
Elena
Udovina(USA)* for the most original solutions at both competition days (Grant of Mueunjae MemorialFoundation):
Elena
Udovina(USA)* for the best participant among the countries that joined or rejoined the IPhO in 2004 (by Dr.
W.
Gorzkowski
PresidentoftheIPhOs):
Sung-fung Sum(Hong Kong)
4. During grading the students’ solutions the local graders consulted some problems concerninginterpretation of the criteria etc. with the following three leaders designated to this work by theInternational Board: Prof. Jan Mostowski (Poland), Dr. Andrzej Kotlicki (Canada) and Prof.
Anatoliy Slobodianiuk (Belarus).

5. Prof. Maija Ahtee (Finland) was re-elected to the post of Secretary of the IPhOs for the next
five years by acclamation. Prof. Ahtee expressed deep thanks for so high recognition of her workand promised to work in the same way as until now.

6. The International Board discussed a proposal formulated by Prof. Stanislav Kozel (Russia)
aiming to establish optimum duration of the competition (the text of the proposal wasdisseminated to all more than three months in advance). The following sentence was added to theRegulations
to#5oftheStatutes(asthefirstsentence):“It is recommended that the competition should last 10 days (including arrival and departuredays).”(Voting: total number of Members of the International Board – 135; required minimum ofvotes – 68; number of votes in favour – 75)
7. President of the IPhOs informed the International Board that Prof. Lars Silverberg (Sweden),many years’ Member of the International Board, has passed away on February 11, 2004 after along and heavy illness and reminded his exceptional merits for the International Physics
Olympiads. The International Board commemorated Prof. Lars Silverberg with the Minute ofSilence.

8. President of the IPhOs presented a table with the future organizers of the IPhOs. At present thenearest “free year” is 2022.

9. Prof. Juan Leon (Spain) informed the International Board about present state of preparationof the 36th International Physics Olympiad in Salamanca in 2005. The Singaporean delegates
informed the International Board about present state concerning the IPhO’2006.

10. President of the IPhOs, acting on behalf of all the participants, expressed deep thanks to Prof.
Zheong G. Khim (Chairman of the Organizing Committee), Prof. Seunghwan Kim (Executive
Secretary of the Organizing Committee) and other formal or informal Members of theOrganizing Committee for perfect preparation and execution of the 35th International Physics
Olympiad. Deep thanks were conveyed also to the top authorities of the country, all the sponsors,graders, guides and other people who contributed to the success of the Olympiad.

11. One should underline that the 35th IPhO was honoured with presence of His Excellency
Mister Noh Moo Hyun, President of Republic of Korea, at the Opening Ceremony, who gave
the Opening Address.

12. Acting on behalf of the organizers of the next International Physics Olympiad Prof. Dr.
Angela Calvo Redondo (Spain) announced that the 36th International Physics Olympiad will beorganized in Salamanca, on July 3rd – 12th, 2005 and cordially invited all the participating
countries to attend the competition. Printed materials about the Olympiad in Salamanca havebeen disseminated to all the delegations.

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Prof. Zheong G. Khim
Chairman of the 35th IPhO
Pohang, 23 July 2004......…….................................. ....................……....................
Prof. Maija Ahtee
Dr. Waldemar Gorzkowski
Secretary of the IPhOs
President of the IPhOs