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The International Young Physicists’ Tournament, IYPT, is one of the World's foremost,〔(Hugh Haskell, Charles Britton, and Ronald Edge. A different kind of physics competition—the IYPT. The Physic Teacher 38, 1, 22 (Jan. 2000) ISSN 0031-921X )〕〔(Toni Feder. High Schoolers Debate Physics at International Tournament. Physics Today, Vol. 58 of Issue 12, p. 31 (Dec. 2005) )〕 largest and influential annual physics competitions centered on 17 non-examination research problems, team work, and discussion-based sessions called ''Physics Fights'' where the performances of the teams are judged by expert physicists. The IYPT is a week-long event in which currently around 150 international pre-university contestants participate. During 1988-2013, around 40 nations with ca. 2500 students have taken part at such final events of the IYPT. The event is preceded by a variety of national competitions, conferences, and preparatory meetings, in which dozens of thousands of people are involved at various stages worldwide. The participants present and discuss their research projects at the events that share common features with thesis defense or scientific conferences. The teams switch roles and take floor as Reporters, Opponents and Reviewers, thus learning about peer review early in their career. The IYPT is well established as a global hub of physics promotion that enjoys increasing influence and outreach. It was later recognized that the IYPT-based projects often result in professional, peer reviewed publications before the authors complete a university degree, and the topics of the projects make a lasting impact on partner or rival activities in physics promotion and physics education research. Since the 1990s the IYPT is increasingly but informally acknowledged by the media as the Physics World Cup. The concept of the event was conceived in 1979 by Evgeny Yunosov who initiated the first IYPT in 1988 and was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1989. In 2013, the international organization of the IYPT was awarded the ICPE Medal, sponsored by the IUPAP's Commission on Physics Education, and the organizers of the IYPT have been awarded with a number of international prizes, including the Klaus-von-Klitzing-Preis in 2005, and the Roman-Ulrich-Sexl-Preis in 2010. ==The Problems== The International Organizing Committee (IOC) decides about 17 problems to be used for the IYPT. These problems come from different disciplines of physics and are sometimes also interdisciplinary. The problems of the IYPT are not tasks which can be solved within a short time with known methods, like in an exam. They are deliberately formulated in a more open way. They can be viewed from different angles and there are many ways to handle them. The task of the participants (together with their teamleader) during the preparation phase is to get as much knowledge about the problems as possible. There are no restrictions on how to do so. This kind of problems is intended to put the students in the same situation as a regular researcher is in. The solution to the problems and even the way how to get the solution is completely unknown. Therefore the problems for the IYPT are published more than half a year before the tournament. That gives all participants enough time to do experiments, research literature and the internet, maybe talk to some experts, etc. Teamwork and organizing ability certainly play an important role. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Young Physicists' Tournament」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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