Minutes of the Meetings of the International Board during the 36th International Physics
Olympiad in Salamanca (Spain)
July 3 – 12, 2005

1. The following 72 countries were present at the 36th International Olympiad:
Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia &Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, TheCzechlands, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, HongKong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova,Mongolia, The Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru(*), Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, Serbia & Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, SriLanka(*), Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine,
USAandVietnam.
?(*) – new countries invited by the Organizing Committee to the Olympiad this year
In addition, three countries were represented by observers: Ecuador, Japan and Tajikistan.

2. The International Board with full understanding accepted the proposal of Liechtenstein andSwitzerland on organizing the IPhO'2016 by these countries together. Mr. Charles Kleiber,State Secretary for Education and Research in Switzerland, contained the proposal in the letter to
Secretariat of the IPhOs. The delegation leaders of the countries involved: Mr. Fritz Epple(Liechtenstein) and Dr. Alfredo Mastrocola (Switzerland), presented details of the proposal. In
discussion it was, however, underlined that organization of the Olympiad by two countries is anexception and that in such cases always an extra agreement of the International Board isrequired.

3.

Results of marking the papers by the organizers were presented.
The best score (49.5 points) was achieved ex aequo by Gabor Halasz from Hungary andby Ying-Hsuan Lin (Taiwan). They have won the title "Absolute Winner" of the 36th IPhO.
The following limits for awarding the medals and honorable mentions were establishedaccording to the Statutes:
Gold Medal
Silver Medal
Bronze Medal
Honourable Mention

45 points
41 points
33 points
21 points

According to these limits 46 Gold Medals, 26 Silver Medals, 63 Bronze Medals and 96
Honorable Mentions were awarded. The list of the scores of the winners and the students
awarded with honorable mentions were distributed to all the delegations.

4. In addition to the regular prizes the following special prizes were awarded:*forthebestscores(Absolutewinners)
exaequo:
Gabor
Halasz(Hungary)
Ying-Hsuan
Lin(Taiwan)* for the best score in the experimental partof the competition:
Wei
Xiang
Jonhatan
Ng(Singapore)* for the best scores in the theoretical part of the competition (ex aequo):
Ying-Hsuan
Lin(Taiwan),
GaborHalasz(Hungary)
Han-Hsuan
Lin(Taiwan)
HanhanLi(China)
Azar
Eyvazov(Azerbaijan)
Ivan
Erofeev(Russia)* for the best participant from Spain (Prize of the Salamanca Major):
RicardoMartinBrualla(Spain)* for the best participant from Ibero-American countries (Prize of the University of Salamanca
Chancellor):
FrancoJulio
Mangiarotti(Argentina)* for the best participant among the countries that joined or rejoined the IPhO in 2004 (by Dr.
W.
Gorzkowski
PresidentoftheIPhOs):
Nuwan
Ganganath(SriLanka)* “Einstein Centennial Prize” (for the most original solution in all the competitions - Prize ofthePresidents
oftheOrganizingandAcademicCommittees):Mingjie Dai(China)
5. 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. Eli Raz (Israel) and Prof. Ming-Juey
Lin (Taiwan).
6. For lack of time the International Board was not able to discuss two proposals of changes inthe Statutes. One of them (by Dr. Olsen Malte) referred to the way of formulating theexperimental problems. The second one (by Dr. Waldemar Gorzkowski) referred to theproblem of inviting new countries to the competition. The International Board decided topostpone consideration of these proposals to the next Olympiad.
7. President of the IPhOs informed the International Board that Prof. Ordal Demokan (Turkey),
many years’ Member of the International Board, was perished in a car accident, and reminded
his exceptional merits for the International Physics Olympiads. The International Board
commemorated Prof. Ordal Demokan with the Minute of Silence.

8. President of the IPhOs presented a table with the future organizers of the IPhOs. At present thenearest “free year” is 2023.
9. Prof. Dr. Sguyan Xu (Singapore) informed the International Board about present state ofpreparation of the 37th International Physics Olympiad in 2006. The Iranian delegates informed
the International Board about present state of preparation of the IPhO’2007. Printed materials
about both Olympiads were disseminated to all the delegations.
10. President of the IPhOs, acting on behalf of all the participants, expressed deep thanks to Prof.
Dr. Angela Calvo (Chairwoman of the Organizing Committee), Dr. Juan Leon (Chairman ofthe Academic Committee), Prof. Dr. Jose L. Segovia (Organizing Committee), Dr. Jaime Julve(Academic Committee) and other formal or informal Members of the Organizing Committee for
perfect preparation and execution of the 36th International Physics Olympiad. Deep thanks wereconveyed also to the top authorities of Salamanca and of the country, all the sponsors, graders,guides and other people who contributed to the success of the Olympiad.
11. At the end of the Olympiad, acting on behalf of the organizers of the next International
Physics Olympiad, Prof. Dr. Shuyan Xu (Singapore) announced that the 37th International
Physics Olympiad will be organized in his country on July 8th – 17th, 2006 and cordially invited
all the participating countries to attend the competition.

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Dr. Juan Leon

Prof. Dr. Angela Calvo

Chairman of the Academic Committee

Chairwoman of the Organizing Committee......……..................................

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Prof. Dr. Maija Ahtee

Dr. Waldemar Gorzkowski
Secretary of the IPhOs
President of the IPhOs
Salamanca, 12 July 2005