IX International Astronomy Olympiad
Simeiz, Crimea, October 1-9, 2004.
Brief information - announcement
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The 9th International Astronomy Olympiad will be held
on October 1-9, 2004.
The dates are about the same as three and five years ago when the
VI IAO and
IV IAO took place
in Crimea.
Place of the Olympiad to be different from one in 1999 and 2001.
Arrival, first night (and previous 1-2 nights if necessary for some teams),
opening ceremony will be in the capital of Crimea, town of Simferopol'.
After the lunch on October 2 the teams to be delivered to the main
place of the Olympiad - South Coast of Crimea (about 105 km from Simferopol').
The duration of the Olympiad to be one day longer than usual. Day of
the official departure is October 9. Some additional programme on October
9-11 may be organized (like in 2001) for some teams. The programme of
these days may be discussed with every team individually.
Observers are welcome to the Olympiad!
Official languages of the Olympiad - English and Russian.
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 (1996-2003).
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
As an obligatory preparing for the application a short report
of National Olympiad of the current year with a set of all problems used
on the Olympiad has to be presented by the applicating team (see
the form and examples for the report 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
the students participated in the last stage of the Olympiad) should
be included as well. Necessary actual points of the report will be
announced later. It is desirable that the report to be presented
5 weeks before the application to participate in IAO, but at
least it must be presented 2 weeks before the application.
E-mail for sending
the reports.
Applications should be done in advance (not later than 10 weeks
before the Olympiad, i.e. not later middle of July for the IAO-2004)
for the Olympic Coordinating Council.
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.
IAO-2004 host and dates
The dates are about the same as three and five years ago when the
VI IAO and
IV IAO took place
in Crimea.
Town of the Olympiad to be different from one in 1999 and 2001.
Deadlines
The main feature and difference for the IX IAO is seriously
longer period of issuing invitations for visas to Crimea. The
department of visas of Crimea may give obligation to issue
invitation only within 3 months. As usual invitations are
issued shorter (within 2 months) but the department gives no any
warranty for periods shorter 3 months. So:
The recommended deadline for receiving by LOC
all personal data
of proposed participants and leaders (maybe with some extra
persons for reserve) for asking valid for Ukrainian
Consulates invitations (i.e. invitations for visas):
June 15, 2004.
May be it is the most serious problem in preparing documents
for IX IAO.
And it will be quite senselessly for the teams to send the
personal data of participants and
leaders for asking valid for Ukrainian Consulates invitations
(i.e. invitations for visas) later than:
July 15, 2004.
E-mails
for sending these data. Please, use all three e-mails.
Note 1: A team may use other way to get visas (i.e. not through
invitations of the department of visas of Crimea 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-2004 organization. As usual these
invitations are not official for asking visas in Ukrainian 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 Ukraine. The faxes with inofficial invitations
may be sent directly to the touristic company (to the company you
choose) as well.
Note 4: LOC cannot adopt team of a state with official passports
without visas if visas are necessary for the citizens of the state
with usual passports.
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:
July 8, 2004, 24 h of Crimean time (21 h UT) (84 days before
the Olympiad starting).
E-mail for sending
the reports.
The official deadline for receiving the
applications from states:
July 22, 2004, 24 h of Crimean time (21 h UT) (70 days before
the Olympiad starting).
E-mail for sending
applications.
Financial obligations
Financial obligations of the participating states (i.e. fees)
to be announced later. The Olympiad is organized in accordance with
the #9.2.Note 1. of the Acting
Statutes/Regulations of the International Astronomy Olympiad
(the case of absence other candidates-organizers for the IAO in some
year...).
States-participants
The following 19 states sent their applications and wishes for
participation:
 Armenia
 Brazil
 Bulgaria
 China
 Crimea
 Estonia
 India
 Indonesia
 Iran
 Ireland
 Italy
 Korea
 Lithuania
 Moscow Land
 Romania
 Russia
 Serbia and Montenegro
 Sweden
 Thailand
The main points of
the programme of the IX Olympiad (preliminary)
Rules and Regulations for
a participant of the Olympiad. Analogous document (with a few
modifications) for 2004 will be issued.
Personal data questionnaire and the order
of their presenting (necessary with the application for all proposed
participants and leaders)
Weather in Crimea
Weather forecast for Crimea:
Simferopol',
Simeiz
Helpful information about Crimea
Climate in Crimea
Statutes on the Olympiad
Updated 15.09.2004.
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