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Below are selected pieces of articles and news stories mentioning the IPT:
2025
- 30 June 2025: Participation of the Politechnico di Milano (in Italian)
- Team Greece participation announced on the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens webpage (in Greek)
- ETH student newsletter covered the Swiss team 1st place
2024
- July 2024: The Swiss Physics Society covered the IPT 2024 and their support for the international final in their members’ newsletter on page 62)
- 12 Apr 2024: Aleph and other tails wrote about the organisation of the IPT 2024 in Zurich
- 7 Apr 2024: The University of Warsaw Faculty of Physics posted a newspiece of their team taking 5th place in the IPT
2022
- 9 May 2022: Con 15 equipos internacionales, el Mundial de Física ya se desarrolla en la Universidad Industrial de Santander – With 15 international teams, the Physics World Cup is already taking place at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (in Spanish) (UIS website)
- 11 May 2022: Colombia es la sede del Mundial de Física, que se celebra por primera vez fuera de Europa – Colombia is the venue for the Physics World Cup, which is being held for the first time outside of Europe (in Spanish)
- 14 May 2022: La travesía de un grupo de ucranianas para llegar al Mundial de Física en Colombia – The journey of a group of Ukrainians to reach the Physics World Cup in Colombia (in Spanish)
- The episode about the IPT in Bucaramanga on national news (Canal TRO)
- Multiple entries on the UIS YouTube channel (about team France winning the IPT, about team Ukraine’s trip, about the opening, about the participants’ impression)
2020
- April 2020: 12th edition of the IPT is postponed because COVID-19 pandemic raises national lockdowns across the world (Official statement, AYIMI)
- October 2020: Physics in the pandemic: ‘Moving the International Physicists’ Tournament online was challenging’ (Physics World blog)
2019
- 1 April 2019: Guest post in the Nature Physics blog about the tournament. (PDF)
- 20 April 2019: Article on EPFL hosting the 2019 edition of the tournament. (PDF)
- 24 April 2019: Post in French about the 11th edition being hosted at EPFL (in French). (PDF)
- 30 April 2019: Article on Colombia reaching the semi-final in national newspaper (in Spanish). (PDF)
- 30 April 2019: Article on the victory of the French team represented by l’X (in French). (PDF)
- 30 April 2019: Article covering the IPT 11th edition on Physics World. (PDF)
- April 2019: EPFL hosts physics mundial, EPFL Magazine №25, p.29 (in French).
- 21 May 2019: Post on the 11th edition in e-EPS. (PDF)
- 21 May 2019: Post on a call to problem suggestions and the criteria in LinkedIn. (PDF)
- 1 July 2019: Information on the IPT in two articles in the SPS magazine – Switzerland. (PDF)
- 1 August 2019: Entry in the IoP’s Higher Education Group newsletter. (PDF)
- 25 September 2019: Previous participant and IOC member discusses the IPT at The Optical Society. (PDF)
- 4 October 2019: Article in the American Physical Society on work published on one of the 2019 edition’s problems. (PDF)
- 28 October 2019: Feature of the work performed by French teams on the string shooter problem in the French national newspaper, Le Monde. (PDF)
2018
- 5 February 2018: Article on the Brazilian team looking to go to Moscow (in Portuguese). (PDF)
- 9 April 2018: Brief article on Brazilian participation in the 2018 edition (in Portuguese). (PDF)
- 10 April 2018: EPFL wins the 2018 edition! (PDF)
- May 2018: Swiss team wins the IPT 2018 in the EPFL Magazine №17, p.23 (in French).
- July 2018: EPFL success is highlighted in the Swiss Physical Society communications! (PDF)
- October 2018: Announcement of the 11th IPT with EPFL as a host in EPFL Magazine №19, p.38.
- 26 November 2018: French team receives award from Ecole polytechnique.
2017
- 15 February 2017: Article about the Brazilian crowdfunding campaign on the website Ultimo Segundo (in Portuguese). (PDF)
- 16 February 2017: Article about the Brazilian team’s qualification on UOL (in Portuguese). (PDF)
- 10 March 2017: Television report of the Venezuelan participation on the national television Globovision (in Spanish).
- 22 March 2017: Article about the first Italian participation on the website of the University of Milan (in Italian). (PDF)
- 29 March 2017: Article about IPT 2017 on the website of Chalmers. (PDF)
- 12 April 2017: Article about the 2017 participation of Voronezh State University. (PDF)
- 15 April 2017: Article about the Ukrainian victory on the website of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. (PDF)
- 16 April 201: Article about the Ukrainian victory on the website Kharkiv Observer. (PDF)
- 18 April 2017: Article about the Ukrainian victory on the website Ukraine Crisis Media Center. (PDF)
- 20 April 2017: Article about the first Brazilian participation in the IPT on the website Galileu (in Portuguese). (PDF)
- 27 April 2017: Article about the Italian participation on the website of the Italian Physical Society (in Italian). (PDF)
- 1 May 2017: Article about the Italian participation on the website Fisici Senza Palestra (in Italian). (PDF)
- 25 August: Article in APS featuring a published paper from IPT 2016. (PDF)
- 30 October: Article in Prima Pagina about Italian participation (in Italian). (PDF)
2016
- February 2016: Article about the Swiss national selection in the Journal of the Swiss Physical Society (in French). (PDF)
- 8 April 2016: University of Queensland team becomes first Australian team to compete in the tournament in UQ’s news page. (PDF)
- 11 April 2016: Introducing the commencement of the IPT, in the French Physical Society’s events (in French). (PDF)
- 11 April 2016: The 8th International Physicists’ Tournament 2016, in ESPCI events (in French). (PDF)
- 17 April 2016: Mention of the first participation of a German university to the IPT on the website of the German Physical Society (in German). (PDF)
- 22 April 2016: Article about the victory of ENS Lyon in IPT 2016 on the website of ENS Lyon (in French). (PDF)
- 28 April 2016: Article about the Russian team on the Voronezh State University website. (PDF)
- 11 May 2016: Article about the participation of the German team to the IPT 2016 on the website of the Goethe University Frankfurt (in German). (PDF)
- June 2016: Article about the participation of Switzerland in the IPT 2016 in the Journal of the Swiss Physical Society (in French). (PDF)
2015
- 14 January 2015: Article about French national selection for IPT 2015, in the French newspaper Le Monde (in French). (PDF)
- 22 January 2015 : Article about French national selection for IPT 2015, by the French Physical Society (in French). (PDF)
- February 2015: Article about the selection of the French team for IPT 2015, by École polytechnique. (PDF)
- 7 April 2015: Article about IPT 2015, by the French Physical Society (in French). (PDF)
- 14 April 2015: Article about a meeting between the French team and high-school students at Warsaw, by the French Ambassy in Poland (in French). (PDF)
- 28 April 2015 : Describing the IPT experience, by a former participant from Russia (in Russian). (PDF)
- July 2015: Article about the third place of France during IPT 2015, by the Alumni newspaper of Ecole Polytechnique (in French). (PDF)
- 2 July 2015: Article about the organization of IPT 2016, by the French Physical Society (in French). (PDF)
- August 2015: Article about IPT 2015 and IPT 2016, on “Reflets de la physique” (n°44-45), the journal of the French Physical Society (in French). (PDF)
- 1 September 2015: “James Sharp says that the International Physicists’ Tournaments are a great way for students to learn physics”, First published in *Physics World.* (PDF)
- 9 December 2015: Advertisement of the 8th edition in the French academy of sciences (in French). (PDF)
2014
- 16 April 2014: Announcement of the IPT 2014 in the EPFL Newspaper №3, p.19 (in French).
- 21 April 2014: Radio interview about the IPT 2014 in RTS Radio (in French).
- 26 April 2014: Article about the French victory on the website of Ecole polytechnique (in French). (PDF)
- 19 June 2014: Acknowledgement to the participants of the IPT 2014 in the EPFL Newspaper №5, p.16 (in French).
- June 2014: Article about the first place of France at IPT 2014, in the journal of Ecole Polytechnique (in French). (PDF)
- 2 October 2014: Announcement for the IPT 2015 in the EPFL Newspaper №7, p.13. (PDF)
- 21 October 2014: International Physicists’ Tournament – the team competition in physics for university students by Vladimir Vanovskiy, secretary of the IOC, First published in IOPscience. (PDF)
- September 2017: Nottingham Students impress at tournament in the Nottingham Physics department newsletter. (PDF)
- 7 November 2014: Nottingham students head to finals in Warsaw, in the Nottingham University press. (PDF)
2013
- 13 March 2013: Announcement of the IPT 2013 in the EPFL Newspaper №3, p.16 (in French). (PDF)
- 17 April 2013: Article on the IPT 2013 in the EPFL Newspaper №4, p.14 (in French). (PDF)
- 21 August 2013: Article on the tournament on the website of European Physical Society. (PDF)
