The IPT Conference is a separate event during the IPT week, where the participants can present and discuss their solutions to the current year’s IPT problems in a non-competitive manner. It is a hybrid event, so both on-site and remote speakers are welcome participate.
Mission and selection criteria
The IPT Conference is a way to give the floor to a wider IPT community - the participants of the national selection, on-site teams, team guests etc - who worked on the IPT problems but did not have a chance to present their solutions during the physics fights. The IPT Conference became a permanent part of the IPT week schedule in 2020. This format developed from the “free presentations” informal event. It was a way to recognise the students’ efforts and achievements in physics problem-solving in a more conventional format.
Registration for the IPT conference opens in a month before the IPT week. Anyone from the IPT community can register for their 10-minute talk based on the solution of the IPT problem from the current edition. The entries are reviewed by the execom members to be relevant to the current IPT problems list. During the event, the execom nominates a few members of the IPT jury to serve as a panel for the best talk award.
According to the IPT Rules, the finalist teams do not take part in the IPT Conference. The IPT Conference cannot feature talks on problems selected for the Grand Finale to not give an advantage to any of the finalist teams. Because of that, the list of presenters at the IPT conference is finalised after the IPT semifinals and the announcement of the finalists’ problems (check the calendar page for the typical schedule of the IPT week).
After the IPT the execom collects extended proceedings from interested IPT Conference participants, and publicise an official IPT Conference Proceedings book on Zenodo.
Registration
Use this Google form to register for the IPT Conference (the form is active from one month before the IPT week to the IPT Conference itself). We encourage remote participants and attendees to register at least a week before to receive the videocall link.
IPT Conference 2025
Coming soon
IPT Conference 2024
The list of participants
Room 1
Problem 8 - Peculiar Echo, presented by Bruno Siqueira, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.
Problem 8 - Peculiar Echo, presented by Ivan Prearp, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil.
Problem 1 - Galton Board, presented by Iason Kazakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Problem 4 - Alcohol Sound Check, presented by Penelope Pouli, McGill University, Canada.
Problem 6 - Salty Shapes, presented by Mateusz Winiarski, Kraków Jagiellonian University, Poland.
Problem 8 - Peculiar Echo, presented by Amin Reza, Iran.
Problem 4 - Alcohol Sound Check, presented by Lucas Alexandre Heck, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brasil.
Problem 5 - Jumpy Hoop, presented by Zahra Hosseini, Iran.
Problem 9 - The Bright Spot, Filippos Typas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Problem 1 - Galton Board, presented by Griffin Hiscoke, Sweden.
Problem 9 - The Bright Spot, presented by Viktor Sundström, Sweden.
Room 2
Problem 14 - Unrolling Tape, presented by Anna Krasylnikova, Ukraine.
Problem 13 - Egg Fight, presented by Angelopoulou Eleni-Amaranta, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Problem 17 - Thermal Snail, presented by Yana Kalisetska, Ukraine.
Problem 9 - The Bright Spot, presented by Vinícius dos Passos de Souza, Brazil.
Problem 15 - Anti-Bubbles, presented by Daryna Sych, Ukraine.
Problem 3 - Solenoid Resonance, presented by Alexandros Desylas, Greece.
Problem 9 - The Bright Spot, presented by Wiktor Kalinowski, Poland.
Problem 5 - PVC cement droplets, presented by William Castillo Cabrera, Mexico.
Problem 13 - Egg Fight, presented by Mahan Fallahpour, Iran.
Problem 8 - Peculiar Echo, presented by Luka Čučuković, Croatia.
The IPT Conference 2024 took place on April, 5th, 2024 as two parallel sessions. You can watch the recording for Room 1 and Room 2 on the IPT YouTube channel.
The IPT Conference 2024 proceeding is coming soon on Zenodo community page.
The best talk awards were given to Luka Čučuković from Croatia (Peculiar Echo), Daryna Sych from Ukraine (Anti-bubbles), Lucas Heck from Brazil (Alcohol sound check).
IPT Conference 2023
The list of participants
Keshav Mishra - Magnetic gears
Maressa Pimenta Sampaio - Glass halo
Giovanna Fernandes do Valle - Match counting
Iason Kazazis - Pringles stack ring
Renan Gomes Alvim and Pietra Dominicini Zanni - Dancing lights
Lucas Nogueira Roberto - Glass halo
Marina Möller and Ivan Prearo - The chalk trick
Leonardo Nogueira falabella - Dancing lights
Viktor Sundström - The chalk trick
Anne Sofie Darket - The chalk trick
Ihor Sachok - Bubble love and tensions
Sumit Biswas - Fire-shot-fire
Darius CHIȚU - The chalk trick
The IPT Conference 2023 took place on April, 27th, 2023.
The IPT Conference 2023 proceeding is available on Zenodo community page.
The best talk awards were given to Anne Sofie Darket from Denmark (Chalk Trick), Maressa Pimenta Sampaio from Brazil (Glass Halo), Marina Moller Timoni and Ival Prearo from Brazil (Chalk Trick), Pietra Dominicini Zanni and Renan Gomes Alvim from Brazil (Dancing Light), Sumit Biswas from the USA (Pringles Stack Ring).
IPT Conference 2022
The list of participants
Sagnik Mukherjee from India - Filled Ball
Artem Sukhov from Russia - Filled Ball
Zitong Xiong and Zhiyu Xian from China - Chaotic Magnetic Pendulum
Saad Qasim Abbasi and Muhammad Umar from Pakistan - Flat Earth
Maxim Kleimenov and Andrey Vladychenko from Russia - Ferrofluidic Patterns
Sophia Kanyukova from Russia- Rising in the Bulk
Saurabh Gangwar from Germany - Physics of Math
The IPT Conference 2022 took place on May, 12th, 2022.
The conference and selected talks are available on the respective playlist on the IPT YouTube channel.
IPT Conference 2021
The list of participants
The IPT Conference 2021 took place on April, 27th, 2021, as online-only event in two parallel sessions. More details is on the IPT 2021 edition website.
IPT Conference 2020
The list of participants
The IPT Conference 2022 took place on Sept, 28-30th, 2020, as online-only event. More details is on the IPT 2020 edition website.