Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad

Every year since 2014, 12–20 Latvian students who have performed well in the Latvian National Physics Olympiad have the opportunity to participate in the Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad (NBPhO). Participation in this Olympiad also serves as a competition to select the Latvian team for the International Physics Olympiad.

During the Olympiad, participants have to solve 10 problems within five hours over two days – 4 theoretical and 1 experimental problem. Before the Olympiad, the team leaders have to:

• propose a task that could be included in the set of tasks;
• during the Olympiad they have to translate the set of tasks into Latvian;
• participate in the evaluation of the Olympiad works and in the moderation of the tasks, answer the participants' questions about the scores obtained in the task.

The Latvian team is led by the faculty members and students of the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry of the University of Latvia who have been involved in the preparation of the students (since 2014): Ivars Driķis, Jānis Cīmurs, Dāvis Zavickis, Inese Dudareva, Artūrs Aizstrauts.

Latvian students' performance at the Nordic-Baltic Physics Olympiad (since 2014):

Previous years' tasks, solutions and results can be found on the Olympiad’s website.