III International Astronomy Olympiad
SAO RAS, Nizhnij Arkhyz, October, 20-27, 1998.
The III-rd International Astronomy Olympiad
took place on October 20-27, 1998 at the
Special
Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences
(SAO RAS) in North Caucasus.
There were two official languages
at the Olympiad - English and Russian.
Problems were prepared by the Organizing
Committee in these two languages but the team leaders
were responsible to translate problems to native languges
of participants (i.e. to Bulgarian
and Portuguese).
Character of the problems
to solve were analogous to ones of the Olympiads
1996-1997.
The main points of the programme of the Olympiad were the following:
- Monday October 19
- Indian and Bulgarian delegations arrive
- Tuesday October 20
- Excursions to the nearest mountains (for Indian and Bulgarian delegations)
- Brasilian, Danish, Moscow land and Russian delegations arrive
- Wednesday October 21
- Official opening ceremony, conference
- Excursion to RATAN-600
- Unofficial opening ceremony
- Welcome party
- Thursday October 22
- Theoretical round
- Friday October 23
- Practical round
- Observational round I ("Sun")
- Lecture
- Excursion to BTA
- Observational round II ("Stars")
- Saturday October 24
- Excursion to historical places near the Observatory
- Lectures
- Sunday October 25
- Excursion to Arkhyz
- Closing Ceremony
- Monday-Tuesday October 26-27
- Delegations depart
Number of Diploma:
Team 1...2...3
Brazil.......-...-...1
Bulgaria.....3...1...1
India........1...-...3
Moscow land..1...1...1
Russia.. ....1...1...4
Total.... ...6...3..10
Names of the winners to be on the Web page.
The
4th International Astronomy Olympiad
took place on September 25 - October 2, 1999 in the
scientific town of Nauchnyj, Republic of Crimea, on
a base of Sternberg
Astronomical Institute Crimean Laboratory
and Crimean
Astrophysical Observatory.
Dr. Michael G. Gavrilov, Chairman of the Coordinating Council
of the International Olympiad of Euro-Asian Astronomical Society,
ISSP of Russ. Acad. Sci., Institute avenue 15, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia.
URL: http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/1998/index_e.html
e-mail: gavrilov@issp.ac.ru
fax: +7-(096-57)-64-111
To The International Science Olympiads
International Science Olympiads 1998:
Biology,
Chemistry,
Informatics,
Mathematics,
Physics
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