The registrations for the National Selections of IPT 2023 is closed (08-01-2023, 23:59 hours).

The problem list for this year’s IPT is released here. We will decide the team representing India through the submission of one solution report from the below list of problems –

P#1 Match Counting
P#5 Pringles Stack Ring
P#9 Spinning droplets
P#10 Magnetic Gears
P#11 The Chalk Trick.

Kindly note that since this year’s national selections are not going to be in Physical format, the winning team can choose P#1, P#5 and P#11 for the International preselections if it is conducted.

Deadline and report format

The deadline for registering and submitting the report is 8th January 2023, 23:59 hours (IST). Reports should be emailed online to india@iptnet.info from the email address given in the registration form. Kindly do not include any details in the report which may reflect the university affiliation, so to keep anonymity. We also recommend submitting your report in a format similar to the below preselection report by the Indian team of IPT 2020

We are providing a overleaf file for the prescribed format of the submission – Overleaf file

Logistics and contact details

We advise all the interested teams to be in touch with the Physics departments for financial support and logistics. You may also submit the report where the problem is not entirely solved.

For any further queries, please contact us at india@iptnet.info
or from our Discord : https://discord.gg/FV9nT9KYXM

This year, Association of Indian Physics Students (AIPS) is organising the National Selections for IPT 2022 for the Indian team. They are the National Committee of India for IAPS, which is an international association of Physics societies and students all around the world.

This one-day online event will be conducted on 4th February 2022 (5th February 2022). Further details on timings will be provided in the upcoming itinerary. We are glad to have three teams who will participate in the upcoming physics fights –

1. St. Joseph’s College(Autonomous), Bangalore
2. Joint team of Mohanlal Sukhadia University and University of Rajasthan
3. National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar

The registrations for the National Selections of IPT 2022 are open today. For the first time, IPT will be conducted in Columbia at Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Bucaramanga, Santander! This is, of course, dependent on the favourable circumstances because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The problem list for this year’s IPT is released here.

Due to the Pandemic. the Indian National Selections for IPT 2022 will be online. This details around this will be announced within this month.

We advise all the interested teams to be in touch with the Physics departments for financial support and logistics. In case your university is not open yet, we also kindly request to contact us so that we could provide assistance in participating in the selections.

Kindly note that National selections are also an opportunity to meet different peers around the country to meet and solve problems together, even if it is not entirely solved. We encourage collaborations from different teams and do ask for such opportunities which enable doing science together.

For any further queries, please contact us through this form or with our email addresses.

Given the Coronavirus Pandemic. the Indian National Selections for IPT 2021 will be conducted purely online. This details, of course, will be announced very soon.

There will be an announcement of a discord channel for all the IPT participants in India soon on the website. It would serve as a place for collaborating with other teams/students if possible as well as a quicker medium to answer your queries. Do stay tuned for this!

There are some responses from various teams with queries over the possibility of performing experiments during the lockdown. This is a very unfortunate scenario for which the best the teams can do is to ask for complete support from their institutions. Nevertheless, do contact us through the contact form (or with our email addresses) with your grievances so that we could reply back with any potential suggestions.

Usually, a country with a National Representative has 100 points which it can distribute it among these preselected problems as curated by the executive committee.

Interested voters must tabulate their 100 points to each corresponding problem number given from the problem list (link), following with no more than 20 points per problem and send it to this email address – india@iptnet.info.

All the votes collected from my side would be collated together and an average of all points against each problem would be taken as the final vote from India. More the people vote from a country, more valuable their votes get.

Do note, the deadline of the voting is 5th September 2020 (22:59 hours GMT) [Note the one hour buffer before the end of that day]. Also, you can refer to this google form for voting if you feel that the above process is a lot of hassle – https://forms.gle/6RYmejj67oKiVNat5 

Cheers!

Team IISER Bhopal will be the next Indian Team to represent IPT 2020! A close call with team NISER with a lead of 3 points only makes the tournament a very close fight. Miranda House also did fairly well with a score of 106, something which is very good for a first-timer. (The maximum score achievable was 180 points).

We hope to see IISER Bhopal in the Internationals! Congratulations to all three teams for their participation and we hope to see all of them again for IPT 2021.

Illustrious performances from each Team is the highlight of the event with some of the Physics fights with closer scores. All the teams are new to this tournament and have performed well in that regard.

As of now, team IISERB and team NISER are in a close call (90 v/s 89.33) respectively with a 0.66 point difference. Team Miranda House did significantly well, with an appreciable score of 68.67. The last fight will be an interesting one.

We are further pleased to identify the old participants of the IPT (Pranav Sateesh and Ajay Shanmuga Shaktivasan) to take a significant role in heading Physics Fights for a totally new audience. With that, we look forward to tomorrow to reveal who would be the Indian Team for the IPT 2020 representing in Poland.

The department of Physics of Shiv Nadar University (SNU) will be hosting this year’s Indian national selection for the upcoming IPT 2020 during 17th – 19th January 2020.

Six teams; each from IISER Bhopal, University of Mysore, Miranda House (DU), NISER (Bhubaneshwar), UM DAE CEBS (Mumbai) and the host (SNU); have currently registered for the Nationals. It is the first time that a national event for the IPT is being held in India to decide the national team who will represent IPT 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.

We hope to see all the teams at host university giving their best in the Physics Fights and presenting their month’s work on this years’ problems.

The problem list for the next IPT is released here. The interested team should start preparing for problems. You may expect another update regarding the same in the month of October. Stay tuned!

Students for NISER (Bhubaneshwar) and Shiv Nadar University (Dadri) participated in IPT 2019 by forming the second Indian team. The team was formed after the mutual agreement to collaborate over solving 17 problems and has done better from the previous edition by 20 points. It was a great experience for the new team members; from Physics Fights to the excursion to CERN and the fondue night. We hope to see the members being the part of the next edition of this tournament!