Asian Physics Olympiad

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The Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) is an annual physics competition for high school students from Asia and Oceania regions. It is one of the International Science Olympiads. It was initiated in the year of 2000 by Indonesia. [1] The first APhO was hosted by Indonesia in 2000.

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APhO has its origins in the International Physics Olympiad and is conducted according to similar statutes (One five-hour theoretical examination and one or two laboratory examinations). It is usually held about two months before the IPhO and can also be seen as additional training for the teams. [2]

Each national delegation is made up of eight competitors (unlike five in the IPhO) plus two leaders. Observers may also accompany a national team. The leaders are involved in the selection, preparation and translation of the exam tasks, and the translation and marking of exam papers. The students compete as individuals, and must sit through intensive theoretical and laboratory examinations. For their efforts the students can be awarded a medal (gold, silver or bronze) or an honorable mention.

History

In 1999, the team leader of Indonesia, Prof. Yohanes Surya, Ph.D., together with the president of IPhO, Prof.Waldemar Gorzkowski, undertook to create and organize the first APhO, which was held in Indonesia, between April 24 and May 2, 2000. At this time, prof. Gorzkowski was also working in Indonesia to help with the IPhO team. The event attracted participants from 12 Asian countries. It now is attended by up to 27 countries. [3]

Actively participating countries include Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Romania has participated as guest teams [3] in the past years.

Differences between APhO and IPhO

APhO has 8 students in each delegation, while IPhO has 5.

The award system

In 2001, the IPhO International Board accepted a new system of awarding the prizes. [4] The new system, designed by Cyril Isenberg and Dr. Gunter Lind was based on relative number of contestants for each type of award, instead of the score boundaries defined by percentage of the best contestant's score.

This was not acceptable for APhO, because the average level of contestants is different. The old system remained in power for APhO since the beginning up to 9th APhO in Mongolia, where the leaders voted for replacing it by a new award system suggested by Dr. Eli Raz from the Israeli delegation. The new system, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Israeli Award System, is based on a reference score that is the lowest between twice the median score and the mean score of the top 3 participants. [5] It was first used on 10th APhO in Thailand Archived 2009-09-03 at the Wayback Machine .

Summary

Information on previous years [6] [7] of the APhO:

Number
Year
City
Country
Date
Teams
Absolute WinnerScoreCutoffs (G/S/B/HM)
12000 Tangerang Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia April 23 - May 2, 200010Song Junliang (China)44.75/5038/33/27/21
22001 Taipei Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei April 22 - May 1, 200112Tsai Hsin-Yu (Chinese Taipei)34.50/5028/25/20/16
32002 Singapore Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore May 6–14, 200215Gu Chun Hui (China)35/?/25/?
42003 Bangkok Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand April 20–29, 200310Pawit Sangchant (Thailand)45.90/5040/34/29/22
52004 Hanoi Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam April 26 - May 4, 200413Lang Ruitian (China)45.10/5039//34/28/22
62005 Pekanbaru Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia April 24 - May 2, 200517Li Fang (China)45.60/5040/35/29/22
72006 Almaty Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan April 22–30, 200618Zhu Li (China)44.30/5039/34/28/21
82007 Shanghai Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China April 21–29, 200722Yun Yang (China)43.30/5038/33/28/21
92008 Ulaanbaatar Flag of Mongolia.svg  Mongolia April 20–28, 200818Ji He (China)42.70/5037/32/27/20
102009 Bangkok Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand April 24 - May 2, 200915Lei Jin (China)47.50/5042/36/30/23
112010 Taipei Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei April 23 - May 1, 201016Wang Szu-Pong (Chinese Taipei)43.80/5032/28/23/18
122011 Tel Aviv Flag of Israel.svg  Israel May 1–9, 201116Wu Yukai (China)42.60/5031/27/22/17
132012 New Delhi Flag of India.svg  India April 30 - May 7, 201221Yao Wenjie (China)43.60/5035/31/25/19
142013 Bogor Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia May 5–13, 201320Himawan Wicaksono Winarto (Indonesia)35.90/5024/20/17/13
152014 Singapore Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore May 11–19, 201427Sun Yudong (China)45.50/5040/34/29/22
162015 Hangzhou Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China May 3–11, 201525Zhao Jinchao (China)45.50/5030/26/21/16
172016 Hong Kong Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong May 1–9, 201627Zhang Tiancheng (China)?.?/5038/33/28/21
182017 Yakutsk Flag of Russia.svg  Russia May 1–9, 201724Zhu Yaozheng (China)44.45/5026/23/19/14
192018 Hanoi Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam May 5–15, 201825Chen Tianyang (China)39.07/50?/?/?/?
202019 Adelaide Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia May 5–13, 201923Grigorii Bobkov (Russia)33.40/5028/25/20/16
2020Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic [8]
212021 Taipei (online)Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei May 17–24, 202126Manh Quan Nguyen (Vietnam)33.85/5022/19/16/12
222022 Dehradun (online)Flag of India.svg  India May 21–31, 202227Fredy Yip (Australia)47.60/5042/36/30/23
232023 Ulaanbaatar Flag of Mongolia.svg  Mongolia May 22–30, 202324Lang Chengchao (China)33.50/5019/16/13/10
242024 Kampar Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia June 4-10, 2024
252025Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
262026Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
272027Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand

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