Minutes of the Meetings of the International Board during the XXXI International Physics Olympiads inLeicester,
July 8th - 16th 2000

1. The following 63 countries were present at the 31st International Physics Olympiad: (* new participants):
Albania, Argentina, Armenia(*), Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia &Hercegovina, Brazil(*), Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, TheCzechlands, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland,India, Indonesia, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Latvia,Lithuania,, Luxembourg(*), Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, The Netherlands,Norway, Poland, Portugal, Korea, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam,
Yugoslavia.
Onecountry
wasrepresentedbyobserver:Kenya.
2. Results of marking the papers by the organisers were presented:
The best score (43.4 points) was achieved by Lu Ying from China (Absolute winner of theXXXI IPhO). The second and third were Christoph Keller from Switzerland (41.1 points) andXiao Jing from China (40.4 points). The following limits for awarding the medals and thehonourable mention were established according to the Statutes:
Gold Medal

Silver Medal
Bronze Medal
Honourable Mention

37 points
32 points
27 points
20 points

According to these limits 15 Gold Medals, 11 Silver Medals, 42 Bronze Medals and 62
Honourable Mentions were awarded. The list of the scores of the winners and the students
awarded with honourable mentions was distributed to all the delegations.
3. In addition to the regular prizes a number of special prizes and grants were awarded:* for the best score (Absolute winner)
Lu Ying(China)* for the best solution to the first theoretical problem:
Song Junliang(China)* for the best solution to the second theoretical problem:
Christoph Keller(Switzerland)* for the best solution to the theoretical problem # 3:

Lu Ying(China)* for the best solution to the first experimental problem:
Stefan Pauliuk(Germany)* for the best solution to the second experimental problem:
Xiao Jing(China)
Kuang-Ting Chen(Taiwan)* for the best participant from the countries which joined the IPhO in 2000 (Prize of thePresident of the IPhOs):
Ashot Harutyunyan(Armenia)
4. The International Board has accepted (by majority of votes) one new regulation formulated bythe Dutch delegation (Dr. Hans Jordens and Mr. Gert Munters) and disseminated to all thedelegations by the Secretariat of the IPhOs three months prior to the competition:
Regulation
tothe#7
During the meeting of the graders where the final and most detailed version of thegrading scheme is set, 3 members of the International Board will be present. They have theright to give advice to the group of graders in order to keep the grading scheme within thetradition of the IPhOs.
5. The problem the system of awarding prizes and honourable mentions was discussed. TheInternational Board has decided to change it by expressing the numbers of medals andhonourable mention in percents with respect to the total number of student present at a given
competition. A concrete proposal will be formulated by Dr. Cyril Isenberg and disseminated bytheSecretariatoftheIPhOs.
6. At the last session of the International Board Dr. Waldemar Gorzkowski, acting on behalf ofall the participants expressed deep thanks to Dr. Cyril Isenberg and his collaborators.
Additionally he informed that the Secretariat of the IPhOs has decided to award special diplomas
to the organisers of the XXXI IPhO for very good preparation and very good execution of thecompetition. For technical reasons the diplomas will be sent later by the post.
7. President of the IPhOs presented a list of the organisers of the competition in the future. Due
to applications submitted by Switzerland and Portugal continuity of organising the IPhOs isensured until 2018 (inc.)8. Dr. Hans Jordens informed the International Board about present situation in the World
Federation of Physics Competition and asked PT Members of the IB for submitting articles to thejournal published by the Federation.
9. Prof. Maija Ahtee informed the International Board about a new Olympic home page:www.jyv.fi/ipho
We remind that the Olympic information may be found also in the Olympic ftp site:
ftp.ifpan.edu.pl(subdirectory pub/competitions/ipho).

10. At the closing ceremony the ICPE Medal for Physics Teaching awarded to IPhO in 1993 wastransferred from the organisers of the XXXII IPhO to the representatives of Turkey, the host of
the next Olympiad.
11. Acting on behalf of the organisers of the next International Physics Olympiad Prof.. Ibrahim
Gunal announced that the XXXII International Physics Olympiad would be organised in Antalya(Turkey) June 28th – July 6th, 2001 and cordially invited all the participating countries to attend
the competition.

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Maija
AhteeDr.
Cyril
Isenberg Dr. Waldemar Gorzkowski Prof.
Secretary of the IPhOs
Executive Secretary of the 31st President of the IPhOs
IPhO

Leicester, 15. 07. 2000