XI International Astronomy Olympiad
Bombay (Mumbai), India, November 10-19, 2006.
Brief information - announcement
Dates, venue and arrangements
The 11th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held
on November 10-19, 2006.
(The dates are the same as for the IV NIS Olympiad that took place in SAO in 1999.)
The duration of the Olympiad is to be 10 days, it is longer than
all previous Olympiads.
Homi Bhabha Centre For Science
Education (HBCSE) of the Tata
Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) will make arrangements
for local hospitality to all participants (contestants, team leaders,
observers) from November 10 (day of the official arrival) to November 19
morning (day of the departure).
All participants will be accommodated in a hostel close
to HBCSE (TIFR) in Bombay (Mumbai) in the residential campus
of Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre (BARC).
Additionally, the arrangements for one day before and one day
after the event are possible (but not for more days).
No any additional programme on the next or previous days may
be organized (like it took place in 2001 in Crimea and was announced
for 2002-2005) for some teams.
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 will be analogous to ones
of the previous International Astronomy Olympiads (1996-2005).
Formation of the teams
One may find the rules regarding formation of teams 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 - at least 5 weeks
before sending the official application.
E-mail for sending
the reports.
Not later than in five weeks after receiving the report (as usual -
earlier) 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.
Applications should be done not later the deadlines.
Translation to the national language of participants of the Rules and Regulations
for a participant of the Olympiad (from Russian or English) 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 red colored text
in files ia06pmr-.html
or ia06pme-.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,
i.e. preferably by June 11, 2006, in any case not
later than June 26, 2006, 24 h of Indian time (18 h 30 m UT)
E-mail for sending
the reports.
The preferable deadline for receiving the
applications from countries by the Advisory Committee (with
all personal data for every
person):
- July 16, 2006, 24 h of Indian time (18 h 30 m UT).
E-mails
for sending applications. Please, use all three e-mails.
The final deadline for receiving the
applications from countries by the Advisory Committee (with
all personal data for every
person):
- July 31, 2006, 24 h of Indian time (18 h 30 m UT).
E-mails
for sending applications. Please, use all three e-mails.
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Last new from LOC:
The last time for sending personal
data of teams' members for XI IAO is extended to August 31, 2006.
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Note: The situation with the deadlines is quite different
from ones at previous IAOs when delays were possible in the
case a team take care about visas themselves. At the XI IAO
any delay is not possible.
The teams which take part in the XI IAO have to present
necessary personal data about every participant (student,
team leader and observer) to the Local Organizing
Committee preferably by July 16, 2006, in any case
not later than July 31, 2006.
This is a requirement by the Government of India for
security clearance of foreign visitors to any Conference,
Symposium or allied event held by TIFR of which HBCSE is
a constituent unit.
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LOC will issue and send invitations for you not later than in
two weeks after receiving the valid application.
After receiving the formal letter of invitation from the
Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee, participants should
apply to the Indian embassy/consulate for obtaining the necessary
visas.
Financial obligations
Financial obligations of the participating states (i.e. fees)
will be announced after adopting applications personally for
every team.
Committees of the XI IAO
The Olympic Advisory Committee
M.G.Gavrilov (IAO Chairman) - Chairman,
A.Kumar (Mumbai, XI IAO-2006 LOC 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
Prof. Arvind Kumar, HBCSE Director (Mumbai) - Chairman
Web-site of LOC, E-mail of LOC
Methodical Commissions
Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov - Chairman, Theoretical Round
Prof. Rajaram Nityananda - Chairman, Practical Round
Igor V. Salnikov - Chairman, Observational Round
Jury Board
Prof. Rajaram Nityananda - Chairman
Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov - Vice-Chairman
States-participants
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The following states are
welcomed to participate:
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Applications received from:
Applications to observe received from:
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Note: There is left-side traffic in India!
Schedule of the Olympiad:
- Thursday, November 9 - Arriving of some teams to Bombay
- Friday, November 10 - Day of arrival
- Saturday, November 11 - Day of opening ceremony
- Sunday, November 12 - Day of the theoretical round
- Monday, November 13 - Day of excursion to GMRT and the observational round
- Tuesday, November 14 - Day of excursions in Pune
- Wednesday, November 15 - Day of excursions
- Thursday, November 16 - Day of the practical round
- Friday, November 17 - Rest day
- Saturday, November 18 - Day of closing ceremony
- Sunday, November 19 - Day of teams departure
- Monday, November 20 - Departure of some teams
Rules and Regulations for a participant of the Olympiad.
Personal data questionnaire and the order
of their presenting (necessary with the application for all proposed
participants and leaders)
Weather forecast for Bombay (Mumbai)
Helpful information about Bombay (Mumbai) and India
Climate in Bombay (Mumbai), India
Accommodation in Bombay (Mumbai): campus of Bhabha
Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
Statutes on the Olympiad
Updated 20.09.2006.
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