Yale Physics Olympics 2009 Saturday, October 24, 2009 For more information contact Peter Parker at peter.parker@yale.edu or the Physics Department at (203) 432-3650 [Click here to register] Article in Yale Bulletin (October 24, 2008) - Video from article Article in Yale Daily News (October 22, 2007)

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Since the Autumn of 1998, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool (U.K.), the Department of Physics at Yale University has organized an annual Physics Olympics Competition.

The theme of our event is "physics is fun!" Our hope is that the participants enjoy themselves while applying basic ideas from physics in a practical context and hopefully learn some new physics during the day. Click here for Directions.

The event takes the form of a pentathlon, consisting of five 35-minute events. Each event is a task or simple experiment which the students perform as a term and for which they obtain a result or measurement. The teams are ordered based on the accuracy of their results and prizes awarded to the winning teams.

Our event is organized in close cooperation with our friends in the University of Liverpool, who hold a similar event with the same tasks on the same day making this a truly international event!   [Liverpool Physics Olympics International]

For more information please e-mail Peter Parker at peter.parker@yale.edu or call the Physics Olympics Hotline at (203) 432-3650.

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