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International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) is an annual astronomy and astrophysics competition for high school students. It is one of the international science olympiads.[1]

IOAA 2012 at Rio Planetarium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Olympiad was founded from a dissidence inside the International Astronomy Olympiad, in order to increase the scope of the organization.

History

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  • The first Olympiad was held in the city of Chiang Mai (Thailand) from November 30 to December 9, 2007. The International Council, consisting of team leaders, elected a president (Dr. Boonrucksar Soonthornthum, Thailand) and a secretary general (Dr. Chatief Kunjaya, Indonesia) for a five-year term.[2]
  • The second Olympiad was held in 2008, from August 19 to 28, in the city of Bandung (Indonesia). It was attended by representatives of 22 countries.
  • The third Olympiad was held in 2009, from October 17 to 27, in Tehran. An observation tour was conducted in the desert. Representatives of 20 countries took part in the Olympiad.
  • The fourth Olympiad was held in 2010, from September 12 to September 21, in Beijing. 114 participants of the Olympiad came from 23 countries.
  • The fifth Olympiad was held in 2011, from August 25 to September 4, in the Polish cities of Katowice, Chorzów and Kraków. For the first time the Olympiad was held in Europe. Representatives of 26 countries took part in the Olympiad. In Poland, the International Council elected a new president (Dr. Chatief Kunjaya, Indonesia) and a secretary general (Dr. Greg Stachowski, Poland). Regional coordinators were also elected (Dr. Thaís Mothé Diniz, Brazil, for America and Dr. Aniket Sule, India, for Asia).
  • The sixth Olympiad was held in 2012, from August 4 to 13. For the first time the Olympiad was held in America in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Vassouras. Representatives of 28 countries took part in the Olympiad.
  • The seventh Olympiad was held in 2013, from July 27 to August 4 in the Greek city of Volos. The competition was attended by 39 teams from 35 countries, including for the first time teams from the USA, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Armenia, the Republic of Macedonia and Cyprus.
  • The fourteenth Olympiad was supposed to be held in Bogotá, Colombia. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition was moved to an online format and Colombia was moved to 2021. This competition was not named IOAA, but GeCAA (meaning Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics) and did not count as the 14th IOAA. It was held 23 September 2020 to 23 October 2020. Estonia was the host country.

Summary

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Number Year Host country Host city Absolute winner Countries Represented Winner Team Website
1 2007   Thailand Chiang Mai   Thailand Suwun Suwunnarat 21 * 1st IOAA, 2007
2 2008   Indonesia Bandung   India Nitin Jain 22 * 2nd IOAA, 2008
3 2009   Iran Tehran   India Nitin Jain 20 * 3rd IOAA, 2009
4 2010   China Beijing   Poland Przemysław Mróz 23 * 4th IOAA[dead link], 2010
5 2011   Poland Chorzów / Katowice / Kraków   Czech Republic Stanislav Fořt 26 IOAA 2011
6 2012   Brazil Rio de Janeiro / Vassouras   Lithuania Motiejus Valiūnas 28 IOAA 2012
7 2013   Greece Volos   Romania Denis Turcu 35 * 7th IOAA Archived 2013-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, 2013
8 2014   Romania Suceava / Gura Humorului   Romania Denis Turcu 42
9 2015   Indonesia Magelang / Semarang   Indonesia Joandy Leonata Pratama 41
10 2016   India Bhubaneswar   India Ameya Patwardhan 42 IOAA 2016
11 2017   Thailand Phuket   Slovenia Aleksej Jurca 44 IOAA 2017
12 2018   China Beijing   Russia Stanislav Tsapaev 39 IOAA 2018 Archived 2019-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
13 2019   Hungary Keszthely & Hévíz   Vietnam Nguyễn Mạnh Quân 46 IOAA 2019
N/A[a] 2020   Estonia[b] N/A   Canada Zhening Li 40   Canada GeCAA
14 2021   Colombia Bogotá (online)   Russia Maksim Permiakov 48   Russia IOAA 2021
15 2022   Georgia Kutaisi   Romania Vlad Ștefan Oros 45   Iran IOAA 2022
16 2023   Poland Chorzów / Katowice   Slovenia Peter Andolšek 52   United Kingdom IOAA 2023
17 2024   Brazil Vassouras   Slovenia Peter Andolšek 54   Iran IOAA 2024
18 2025   India Mumbai Will be available after the event Soon Soon
  1. ^ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IOAA 2020 was replaced by an online competition: the Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics (GeCAA).
  2. ^ The GeCAA was organized by the IOAA International Board with extensive support from the Estonian Astronomy Olympiad Committee.

The 1st IOAA-Jr, for the students under 16 years of age was held in Romania from 30 October to 7 November 2022. The 2nd IOAA-Jr was held in Volos, Greece from 24 to 30 September 2023, and its age restriction was lowered to students under 15.[3] The 3rd IOAA-Jr will be hosted by Kathmandu, Nepal from 3 to 10 October 2024.

Participating Countries

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Source: https://www.ioaastrophysics.org/participating-countries/

Results

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Source: https://www.ioaastrophysics.org/results/

Prize winners

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High-scoring participants

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The following table lists multiple (triple and more) gold medal winners of IOAA with their ranks and corresponding years.

Name Team(s) Years
Peter Andolšek Slovenia 2021 (29th) 2022 (10th) 2023 (1st) 2024 (1st)
Denis Turcu Romania 2013 (1st) 2014 (1st)
Stanislav Fořt Czech Republic 2010 (8th) 2011 (1st) 2012 (2nd)
Peter Kosec Slovakia 2010 (5th) 2011 (4th) 2012 (5th)
Daniil Dolgov Russia 2016 (8th) 2017 (3rd) 2018 (11th)
Jindřich Jelínek Czech Republic 2016 (9th) 2018 (5th) 2019 (7th)

Note: Several countries (e.g. India, Indonesia, Iran, Thailand) do not allow their students to contest in IOAA more than two times, even if they are eligible. Thus, statistics from those countries is not included in the table above.

References

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  1. ^ "About IOAA".
  2. ^ "1st IOAA". ioaastrophysics.org. 2007. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. ^ 2nd IOAA JR 2023 https://ioaajr2023.gr/. Retrieved 1 October 2023. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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