First      
announcement
April 4, 2019

• Founding of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO)
  
  
• Last 5 Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads
  The 10^th APAO, Irkutsk-Listvyanka (Siberia, Russia), November 24 - December 2, 2014.
  The 11^th APAO, Dhaka (Central Bangladesh), November 13-22, 2015.
  The 12^th APAO, Goheung (South Korea), November 17-25, 2016.
  The 13^th APAO, Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), November 22-29, 2017.
  The 14^th APAO, Lijiang (Yunnan, China), November 24 - December 2, 2018.
  
  
• Guideline for new participating countries
  
  
• The main points for formation of the teams
  
  
• The official APAO e-mail is   a p a o l i s t . r u
  
  
• The next Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad
  
  
• The International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO)

The main points for formation of the teams

The points proposed to be analogous to ones for the 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, 13^th and 14^th Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiads. Details will be published in the 2^nd announcement.

National Astronomy Olympic Committees and interested organizations are welcome to ask more about the 15^th APAO and in 2019 may form the teams for the 24^st IAO as well as for the 15^th APAO.

The official APAO e-mail is a p a o [a] l i s t . r u .

Host

Host of the XV APAO will announced later.

Dates, deadlines and applications

Dates and deadlines for applications will be published in the 2^nd announcement.

Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Founding Chairman and Coordinator of the Asian-Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO)
ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Academician Ossipyan street 2, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia.

URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/apao/2019/
e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru
fax: + 7-(496-52)-28-160