IYPT

Bronze für die Schweiz beim IYPT 2025 in Lund, Schweden!

Nach vier spannenden Physics Fights sicherten Team Captain Harald Martinussen und seine Teamkollegen Mathis Banerjee, Szymon Domalewski, Csongor Muszely und Rachel Silveira Camargo mit 43.3 Punkten in der letzten Runde eine weitere Medaille für das Team Schweiz.

Begleitet wurde die Delegation von Team Leaders Jason Hu und Svenja Ruth sowie von Sam Norton, Ophélie Rivière, Malte Uthoff, Frédéric de Montmollin, Emilie Hertig, Daniel Keller und Eric Schertenleib.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle!

Das Schweizer Team gewinnt erstmals das International Young Physicists' Tournament (IYPT). In Timisoara, Rumänien, sicherte sich das Team um Jan Kamm (Captain), Anja Christina Duevel, David Fankhauser, Chengjie Hu und Joel Tan die Physikweltmeisterschaft. Begleitet wurden die Schüler*Innen von Ophélie Rivière, Jakob Storp, Daniel Keller, Eric Schertenleib und Michael Klein.

Das Schweizer Team gewann am International Young Physicists' Tournament in Kutaissi, Georgien eine Silbermedaille. Das Team bestehend aus Jan Kamm (Captain), Che Chen, Elen Flynn, Chengjie Hu und Joel Tan zeigte eine starke Leistung und sicherte sich verdient die Silbermedaille. Betreut wurden das Team von Alisa Miloglyadova.

Nach der Turnierabsage im Vorjahr und einer virtuellen Durchführung des nationalen Turniers in diesem Jahr freuten sich die Schüler*Innen, dass sie ihre Arbeit an einem internationalen Turnier durchführen konnten. Das IYPT stellte für sie einen Höhepunkt in einem schwierigen Schuljahr 2020/2021 dar.

Herzliche Gratulation an alle Beteiligten!

Der Teilnehmer, Oskari Jyrkinen, hat einen Erfahrungsbericht über seine Erlebnisse am IYPT verfasst. Ferner erzählt er wieso er sich für eine Teilnahme am SYPT entschieden hat.

Erfahrungsbericht IYPT 2019

This year’s IYPT was held in Warsaw, Poland and the students representing Switzerland were Daniel Gotsmann, Manuel Antoinette, Oskari Jyrkinen, Michael Klein and Alisa Miloglyadova. As all the students representing Switzerland, I got into the team by qualifying for the team at the qualification round where the best nine students of the national tournament participated.

There are different reasons why I decided to participate at the SYPT and eventually IYPT. First of all, I really enjoy trying to understand physical phenomena and the feeling you get when you successfully model such a phenomenon mathematically after having spent hours, days, if not weeks experimenting and pondering is just priceless. In addition, I saw it as a unique opportunity to develop my presenting and critical thinking skills, as they are an integral part of this tournament. By participating at the IYPT you also get very competent coaching which is undoubtedly very valuable.

The opening ceremony started off with lectures and speeches from IYPT officials and renowned physicists. As one might imagine, many students were very tired after the last preparations from the night before. Nevertheless, the students were woken up from their dozy state of mind when a group of dancers and singers entered the auditorium and started a traditional Polish singing and dance performance and encouraged the whole audience to dance along, cheering up the mood in the auditorium.

Finally, the time came for the forming of the physics fights. One by one the teams’ captains had to randomly pick a sculpture with a number beneath assigning each team for a fight. When it was time for our captain, Daniel Gotsmann, to pick a sculpture, the emotions in the auditorium were high as Singapore turned out to be our rival in the first fight. On our way out of the auditorium other teams wished us luck for the first fight against serial winner Singapore.

Nevertheless, we had a comparably strong first fight which provided us with a great deal of confidence. In the following days our performance and team work kept improving as we climbed up the ranking. The day before the fight against Brazil and Iran, the tension was high as we had to make sure not to be surpassed by our strong rivals and not to lose our third place in the total ranking. All three teams in this fourth fight had a strong performance which made it one of the most memorable and exciting fights.

After all the preliminary rounds the moment of truth was about to be revealed. Nervously we were waiting for the scores of the last preliminary round to be published. Great was our delight when we heard that we had won the gold medal of this year’s IYPT by qualifying for the final.

After an intense day of preparation, the day of the final came where we had to face China, Germany and Singapore. We performed well, coming third, only 1.8 points behind the winning team Singapore. Finally, all the hard work, missed excursions and lack of sleep had paid off.

After a great tournament, the whole Swiss team decided to stay in Warsaw for the weekend to enjoy and celebrate the gold medal as well as to catch up on the missed excursions.

I would like to thank both team leaders, Emilie Hertig and Markus Niese, as well as Eric Schertenleib and Daniel Keller for their competent support before and throughout the whole tournament. Their contribution and dedication undoubtedly played an immense role in achieving the results we did.

Das Schweizer Team holt Gold am 32. International Young Physicists’ Tournament in Warschau, Polen! Die Delegation bestehend aus den SchülerInnen Daniel Gotsmann (Captain), Manuel Antoinette, Oskari Jyrkinen, Michael Klein und Alisa Miloglyadova sowie die BetreuerInnen Emilie Hertig (Teamleader Juror), Markus Niese (Teamleader), Daniel Keller (Experienced Juror) und Eric Schertenleib (Experienced Juror) sicherte sich mit dem Finaleinzug die dritte Goldmedaille seit 2013. Dieser Erfolg ist der verdiente Lohn für die harte Arbeit der letzten Monate.

Der Fightplan bescherte der Schweiz eine denkbar schwierige Aufgabe zum Start: In Runde 1 traf man auf Seriensieger Singapur sowie Gastgeber Polen. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler zeigten aber eine solide Leistung und das Team lag nach der ersten Runde auf Rang 5. In den folgenden Runden konnten sie sich weiter steigern. Am Ende reichte der Schweiz die 209.3 Punkte für den Finaleinzug und der damit verbundenen Goldmedaille.

Im Finale präsentierte Oskari Jyrkinen das Problem Hurricane Balls, Daniel Gotsmann übernahm die Opposition und Michael Klein den Review. Nach einem sehr hart umkämpften Physics Fight verpasste man den Turniersieg um 1.9 Punkte und beendete die Runde auf Rang 3. Dennoch kann das Team sehr stolz sein.

Wir gratulieren unseren fünf Schülerinnen und Schüler zu ihrer ausgezeichneten Leistung!

Das 31. International Young Physicists' Tournament fand vom 19. bis 26. Juli am RDFZ Yizhuang Campus, in Peking, China statt. Am Turnier erreichte das Schweizer Team um David Tschan (Captain), Daniel Gotsmann, Daniil Lozner, Piotr Salustowicz und Jakob Storp den 10. Rang. Begleitet wurden die fünf Schüler von Emilie Hertig (Team Leader), Eric Schertenleib (Team Leader, IOC), Daniel Keller (Juror) und Samuel Byland (Juror, EC). Wir gratulieren der ganzen Delegation zu einem erfolgreichen Turnier!

Erfahrungsbericht von David Tschan (English)

After having decided to participate in the team qualifications for the IYPT, I was assigned a new problem to work on for the next three weeks: problem number three, Dancing Coin. Prior to giving my consent to keeping on the work, I had had a meeting with the principal of my school and Mr. Weiss, during which I was assured that I had the full support of GKG behind me, that I would be allowed to not visit certain classes and to work instead. Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, I was given a key with which I was able to access the school and the physics facilities. From that point onwards, I probably spent more time in the lab than in classes. The setup that I used for Dancing coin required a few tries until it worked. However, once it did, it proofed invaluable for I was able to measure all the relevant physical entities relatively easily.