IUB Students rank with the best at International Physics Competition

Every year undergraduate science students match their skills at the Boston Area Undergraduate Physics Competition (BAUPC). The organisers from Harvard University published this year’s results on June 1.: The IUB-team achieved a remarkable fourth place.

[ Jun 16, 2004]  At eleven locations in the US and Germany students from different universities had to work on six questions. The participants had four hours to solve the set problems. Twelve IUB-students from the fields of physics, mathematics, and geosciences & astrophysics took part in this year’s competition. The team ranking considers the individual rankings of the three best students from each university. The fourth place for the IUB-team is a remarkable result. The IUB-team was only beaten by the teams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Harvard University. Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley were sent off to the places five to seven. IUB student Florian Ioanita came in sixth together with a Caltech student in the individual ranking.

Dr. Peter Schupp, Professor of Physics at IUB, is delighted about the impressive performance of the IUB-students. He praises BAUPC and its organisers from the Harvard Physics Department: “This competition offers an intellectual challenge for the students, participating in it is also a lot of fun. The questions are inventive and foster the interest in physics.”

Since 1995 undergraduate students match their skills at the annual BAUPC. Initially a Harvard University physics competition, over the years the Boston Area Undergraduate Physics Competition has become a renowned competition in the USA. Today many top-ranked universities in North America participate in this competition. In 2003 IUB joined joined the competition as the first European university.

The results in detail: http://liquids.deas.harvard.edu/oleg/competition/04/