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The X International Astronomy Olympiad to be held in Beijing (China) on October 25 - November 2, 2005.


brazil bulgaria china crimean peninsula estonia india indonesia iran italy japan korea lithuania moscow land romania russia serbia&montenegro sweden thailand

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X International Astronomy Olympiad
Beijing, China, October 25 - November 2, 2005.

Brief information - announcement

The 10th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held on October 25 - November 2, 2005. The dates are about the same as the first IAOs took place in SAO. Arrival, first night (and previous 1-2 nights if necessary for some teams), opening ceremony will be in the capital of China, city Beijing. In the afternoon on October 26 the teams to be delivered to the main place of the Olympiad - Huairou town in Beijing region, to the North from Beijing city. The duration of the Olympiad to be the same as last year in Crimea. Day of the official departure is November 2. Some additional programme on the next days may be organized (like in 2001 in Crimea) for some teams. The programme of these days may be discussed with every team individually.

Observers from new countries are welcome to the Olympiad!

Official languages of the Olympiad are Russian and English . Problems will be prepared by the Organizing Committee in these two languages and the leaders are responsible to translate tasks to native languages of participants just before the rounds (three hours before). Character of the problems to solve were analogous to ones of the previous International Astronomy Olympiads (1996-2004).

Formation of the teams

One may find the rules of teams forming in the Acting Statutes/Regulations of the International Astronomy Olympiad and the Supplementary Instructions N 3.

Applications

The first part of preparing application is presenting of a short report of National Olympiad of the current year for the Advisory Committee. Necessary actual points of the report, the form and examples for the report are in the Supplementary Instructions N 10). The report with texts of all problems used during all-national stages (including ones during the possible preparing camps) of the National Olympiad should be done in one of the official languages of the Olympiad (Russian or English). The final minutes (protocols written in Latin or Cyrillic) of the Olympiad (evaluating of solutions of every problem of the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should be included as well. The report has to be presented in advance.

  • E-mail for sending the reports.

    Not later than in five weeks after receiving the report (as usual - earlier, see schedule) the Chairman of the Advisory Committee will issue resolution about possibility for the country to send full (or not full) team to the IAO (i.e. solution about the representation quota: according to # 5.2.1. or to # 5.2.2. of the Statutes/Regulations the team may be form).

    After receiving the resolution (and only after) about possible number of participants the country have to send application. Applications includes personal data of proposed team leaders and participants. The personal data questionnaire and the order of their presenting is here.

    Applications should be done in advance to the Advisory Committee.

    Translation to the national language of participants of the Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad should be included to the application as well. For those who translated the document last year, the only a few modifications have to be done, see explanations in files pam04rus.html or pam04eng.html.

    Deadlines

  • The official deadline for receiving the short report of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used on the National Olympiad:
    5 weeks before the team want to send application.
    E-mail for sending the reports.

  • The official deadline for receiving the applications from countries by the Advisory Committee (with all personal data for every person) to have free invitations for visa (visa fee discount proposed):
    July 25, 2005, 24 h of Beijing time (16 h UT) (91 day before the Olympiad starting).
    E-mails for sending applications. Please, use all three e-mails.

  • The official deadline for receiving the applications from countries by the Advisory Committee (with all personal data for every person) to have invitations for visa:
    August 29, 2005, 24 h of Beijing time (16 h UT) (56 days before the Olympiad starting).
    E-mails for sending applications. Please, use all three e-mails.


  • Note 1: A team may use other way to get visas (i.e. not through invitations organized by the LOC), but it necessary to inform LOC about this way in advance and take permission from LOC.
  • Note 2: LOC may send various types of invitations issued by organizations involved into IAO-2005 organization. As usual these invitations are not official for asking visas in Chinese Consulates, but in some cases it maybe helpful. The faxes with such inofficial invitations may be sent directly to the Consulates as well.
  • Note 3: For the case a team is late to send the data in time: LOC recommends to use touristic companies in your country to obtaine touristic visas to China. The faxes with inofficial invitations may be sent directly to the touristic company (to the company you choose) as well.

    LOC will issue and send invitations for you not later than in two weeks after receiving the valid application.

  • The final deadline for receiving the applications from countries wish to participate in the X IAO (with personal data for every person):
    September 12, 2005, 24 h of Beijing time (16 h UT) (42 days before the Olympiad starting).
    E-mails for sending applications. Please, use all three e-mails.

    No invitations for visas to be issued by LOC in the last case.

    Financial obligations

    Financial obligations of the participating states (i.e. fees) to be announced later.

    Committees of the X IAO

    The Olympic Advisory Committee

  • M.G.Gavrilov (IAO Chairman) - Chairman,
  • J.Zhu (Beijing, X IAO-2005 LOC Chairman),
  • I.V.Salnikov (Simferopol', IX IAO-2004 LOC Chairman),
  • A.R.Vaesterberg (Stockholm, VIII IAO-2003 LOC Chairman).

    Local Organizing Committee

  • Jin Zhu (Beijing) - Chairman, jinzhu@bjp.org.cn, +86-10-51583002, +86-10-81424143, +86-10-13601369613.
  • Hairong Jing (Beijing) - vice-Chairman, hrjing@263.net, +86-10-51583068.
  • Ms. Dong Situ (Beijing) - vice-Chairman, std@bjp.org.cn, + 86-10-51583003.
  • Jian Li - vice-Chairman for scientific and methodical jobs, lijian@bjp.org.cn, +86-10-51583030.
  • Ms. Liang XIN (Beijing) , kimmy@bjp.org.cn, +86-10-51583007, fax: +86-10-68353003 (contact person for communication in English).
  • Ms. Xiaoxiao HONG (Beijing) , helenhong@mail.ru, +86-13693161136, (contact person for communication in Russian).

    Official postal address of the LOC:
    Ms. Dong Situ, Beijing Planetarium, No. 138 Xiwaidajie, Beijing 100044,
    China fax: +86-10-68353003.
    E-mails: std@bjp.org.cn, jinzhu@bjp.org.cn, bjtwg@msn.com.

    Web-site of LOC, helpful information (under construction). E-mail of LOC

    States-participants

    The following 15 states will participate:

      • brazil Brazil
      • bulgaria Bulgaria
      • china China & Beijing
      • estonia Estonia
      • india India
      • indonesia Indonesia
      • iran Iran
      • korea Korea
      • lithuania Lithuania
      • moscow land Moscow Land
      • romania Romania
      • russia Russia
      • serbia&montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
      • sweden Sweden
      • thailand Thailand

      Note: It would be a pity if some states are late to send necessary documents for IAO. In this case we recommend to send the same team application to the The 1st Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (December 2005).

    The main points of the programme of the X Olympiad (preliminary), to be later, after receiving data from local organisers.

    Schedule of the Olympiad:

    • Sunday-Monday, October 23-24 - Arriving of some teams to Beijing
    • Tuesday, October 25 - Day of arrival
    • Wednesday, October 26 - Day of opening ceremony
    • Thursday, October 27 - Day of observational round
    • Friday, October 28 - Day of the theoretical round
    • Saturday, October 29 - Day of excursion
    • Sunday, October 30 - Day of the practical round
    • Monday, October 31 - Rest day
    • Tuesday, November 1 - Day of closing ceremony
    • Wednesday, November 2 - Day of teams departure
    • Thursday, November 3 - Departure of some teams

    Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad. Analogous documents for IAO-2004 are here in Russian or English. There are a few modifications made after IAO-2003 which are marked red. (This documents "pam04eng" or "pam04rus" have to be translated to native language and presented with the application. Possible additions, if any, maybe translated after arriving to the X IAO.)

    Personal data questionnaire and the order of their presenting (necessary with the application for all proposed participants and leaders)

    Weather forecast for Beijing

    Helpful information about China

    Climate in China

    Accommodation hotel in Beijing: Beijing Commercial Business Hotel

    Accommodation hotel in Hairou County: Bihu Hotel

    Statutes on the Olympiad

    For those who wants to send a team urgently

    Updated 12.10.2005.



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