Olympiad Exposure Camp in Astronomy 2023

Department Of Astronomy, Astrophysics And Space Engineering
Indian Institute Of Technology Indore
And
Homi Bhabha Centre For Science Education
Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research

Introduction:
Indian Institute of Technology Indore located in Madhya Pradesh, known as IIT Indore or IITI, is an institute of national importance established by the Government of India in 2009. It caters to the research and development of a wide range of areas in science and technology. The Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering (DAASE) at IIT Indore was established in December 2015 as an interdisciplinary division at IIT Indore, focusing on a wide range of research topics in the domain of Astronomy and Space weather and navigation studies.
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a national centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. The broad goals of the centre are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education from primary school to undergraduate college level. It is India’s nodal centre for Olympiad programmes in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, and Junior Science.

Applications are invited from teachers and educators for Olympiad Exposure Camps in Astronomy which will be organised at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore). The camp is not intended for students and they need not apply.

Camp Objective:
The primary objective of the camp is to spread awareness about the national and international Olympiad programme in Astronomy. An orientation towards the academic and organisational aspects of the Astronomy Olympiad will be provided. The camp also serves as a platform for productive interaction within the teacher community.

Camp Structure:
Olympiad Exposure Camp in Astronomy will be an in-person camp held entirely at IIT Indore, Indore, during 24 to 27 February 2023. The camp will consist of multiple lecture and tutorial sessions, educational visits, night sky observation and telescope handling sessions. Typical topics covered will be celestial mechanics, optics, positional astronomy, stellar physics etc.

Dates and Venue:
24 to 27 February 2023 at IIT Indore.

Travel and Accommodation:
Participants will be reimbursed to and fro travel fare as per their entitlement (maximum II-AC train fare). Food and accommodation at IIT Indore will be provided for all participants.

Who can apply?
• University/college teachers of physics or astronomy
• High school science teachers (with a background in physics/mathematics)
• Astronomy outreach personnel from scientific institutions, staff of planetaria and science museums, as well as active amateur astronomers
• Students and applicants below the age of 23 years will not be considered.
• It is preferred that the participants have a background in Physics and/or Mathematics.
• Previous participants of Astronomy Olympiad Exposure Camps will not be considered again. Previous participants of Olympiad Exposure Camps in other subjects may be considered subject to the availability of seats.

Application process:
• Click here to fill out the online application form.
• Last date of application: 4 February 2023.
• Intimation regarding selection will be communicated by 10 February 2023.
• Selected participants will be invited through an official letter sent over email.
• Any queries regarding the camp can be sent to outreach_daase@iiti.ac.in .

URGENT: Regarding clash of INO 2023 and JEE Main 2023 examinations

In case your INO 2023 dates clash with your allocated JEE Main examination date, you may send a request to NTA for an alternative date for JEE Main by filling up the form below.

https://forms.gle/oWmFirr7nrNgGYwH9

Please submit this form on or before 12 noon, Friday, January 20, 2023. No request received in any other form (email/phone etc.) or beyond this deadline can be considered.

HBCSE has agreed to forward such requests collectively to the NTA, which has offered to look into it. However, we have no information about the time taken by NTA to process these requests and the eventual outcome. HBCSE has no role in this matter other than forwarding your request to NTA.

Please note that the INO dates will not be changed, irrespective of the outcome of your request to NTA.

Please do not call or email HBCSE about this matter since we cannot provide any further information and assistance regarding this. The deadline for submission of this form cannot be extended.

Important announcement regarding INO 2023

The second stage examinations of Science Olympiads, the Indian National Olympiads (INO) in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy and Junior Science will be held on January 28 and 29, 2023.

Registration for INO will begin on 6 January 2023.

Please note that the national Olympiad examinations are linked to the international Olympiad calendar that cannot be altered.  In order to ensure that the multiple stages of selection and training of the Indian teams to the Olympiads in multiple subjects proceed smoothly, the Olympiad calendar of exams and camps is already very tight. Various administrative processes like registration of teams, obtaining official clearances, booking foreign travel tickets, and most importantly, obtaining visas for every member of the teams going to various countries must be completed by inflexible deadlines. Further, the dates of subsequent stages of the Olympiads are already severely constrained by the dates of multiple board examinations and national competitive examinations that the students are expected to take. The INO dates are fixed with minimum margins so as not to jeopardise national representation in any of the international Olympiads. These dates are final and cannot be changed.

HBCSE has made NTA aware of the potential clash of INO and JEE Main exams for some students on Jan 28/29. NTA is looking into the matter to find a solution.

List of Selected Participants for Chemistry Olympiad Exposure Camp Nov 2022

November 9 – 12, 2022

Sl no.

Name

State

1

Abhijit Appasaheb Muke

Maharashtra

2

Alpna Plawat

Uttar Pradesh

3

Amita Kumari

Maharashtra

4

Amruta Phadke

Maharashtra

5

Anand Kumar Singh

Uttar Pradesh

6

Anuradha Gupta

Haryana

7

Arif Malik

Jammu and Kashmir

8

Biswajit Das

West Bengal

9

Debajit Ghosh

Assam

10

Debdurlav Nandy

West Bengal

11

Deepika Kharb

Delhi

12

Dinesh Kumar

Uttar Pradesh

13

Divya Sharma

Uttar Pradesh

14

Gajender Kumar Gahalot

Gujarat

15

Gian Chand

Punjab

16

Gunada Das

Assam

17

Harvinder Kumar Gupta

Madhya Pradesh

18

Himanshu Agarwal

Uttar Pradesh

19

Jalaj Trivedi

Uttar Pradesh

20

Krishan Kumar

Haryana

21

Krishan Kumar Sharma

Uttar Pradesh

22

Mahalakshmi R

Tamil Nadu

23

Mahendra Kumar Chaudhary

Rajasthan

24

Malini Ramdas Mohod

Maharashtra

25

Manish Kumar Joshi

Rajasthan

26

Manmohan Tyagi

Haryana

27

Meena Verma

Punjab

28

Milan Karpe

Maharashtra

29

Mukesh Kumar Saini

Haryana

30

Nairuti Patel

Gujarat

31

Nazir Ahmad Lone

Jammu and Kashmir

32

Nilkamal Goswami

Assam

33

Pooja

Himachal Pradesh

34

Poonam K Khedar

Haryana

35

Prabhu Dan Charan

Rajasthan

36

Prem Chand Saini

Rajasthan

37

Premsheela Singh

Uttarakhand

38

Punita Sharma

Uttar Pradesh

39

Rabia Amin

Jammu and Kashmir

40

Raj Gaurav Jha

Gujarat

41

Raj Kumar

Uttar Pradesh

42

Rajasekhar Behara

Andhra Pradesh

43

Ramanuj Kumar

Jharkhand

44

Ranjana Choudhary

Rajasthan

45

Ranjeet Kaur

Punjab

46

Riyaz Ahmad Wani

Jammu and Kashmir

47

Saba Hyder

Karnataka

48

Sandeep Kumar

Himachal Pradesh

49

Sanjay Jawal

Jammu and Kashmir

50

Sanjay Singh

Uttar Pradesh

51

Sarita

Rajasthan

52

Sarita Mol

Kerala

53

Senthamizhselvan B

Karnataka

54

Shames Ud Din Shah

Jammu and Kashmir

55

Shiv Narayan Paliwal

Puducherry

56

Shubha Tiwari

Madhya Pradesh

57

Simon K

Tamil Nadu

58

Srinivasan R

Puducherry

59

Tara Chand Saini

Delhi

60

Vikram Sharma

Haryana

Physics Olympiad Exposure Camp 2022-2023

Introduction:

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a national centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. The broad goals of the centre are to promote equity and excellence in science and mathematics education from primary school to undergraduate college level. It is India’s nodal centre for Olympiad programmes in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy, and Junior Science.

Applications are invited from teachers and educators for Olympiad Exposure Camps in Physics which will be organised at HBCSE. The camp is not intended for students and they need not apply.

Camp Objective:

The primary objective of the camp is to spread awareness about the national and international Olympiad programme in Physics. An orientation towards the academic and organisational aspects of the Physics Olympiad will be provided. The camp also serves as a platform for productive interaction within the teacher community. The camp will also have a focus on Physics Education Research.

Camp Structure:

Olympiad Exposure Camp in Physics will be an in-person camp held entirely at HBCSE, Mumbai, during 16 to 20 January 2023. The camp will consist of a number of lecture and tutorial sessions on the theoretical and experimental components in the Physics Olympiad programme. There will be a special focus on improving the teaching methods and use of demonstrations in a class.  Eminent scientists/speakers will interact with participants on various interesting topics, giving them a flavour of Physics Olympiad activity.

Dates and Venue:

  • 16 to 20 January 2023 at HBCSE, Mumbai.

Travel and Accommodation:

Participants will be reimbursed to and fro travel fare as per their entitlement (maximum II-AC train fare). Food and accommodation at HBCSE will be provided for all participants.

Who can apply?

  • Educators from different sectors, i.e., university/college teachers of physics, high school/secondary science teachers with background in physics/mathematics, personnel from scientific institutions, staff of science museums are encouraged to apply.
  • Applicants below age of 23 years will not be considered.
  • It is preferred that the participants have a background in Physics and/or Mathematics.
  • Previous participants of Physics Olympiad Exposure Camp will not be considered again.
  • Previous participants of Olympiad Exposure Camps in other subjects may be considered subject to availability of seats.

Application process:

  • Click here to fill out the online application form.
  • Last date of application: 16 October 2022.
  • Intimation regarding selection will be put on the HBCSE website by 31 October 2022.
  • Selected participants will also be invited through an official letter sent over email.
  • Any queries regarding the camp can be sent to physics@hbcse.tifr.res.in

 

National Olympiad Programme 2022-2023

HOMI BHABHA CENTRE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION

TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

National Olympiad Programme 2022-2023

in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Junior Science and Mathematics

All students wishing to participate in the programme must appear in corresponding National Standard Examinations (NSEs) (for science subjects) on November 26 and 27, 2022 and in Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics (IOQM) (for Mathematics) on October 30, 2022.

Qualification in NSE/IOQM is the first step towards participation in the corresponding International Olympiads of 2023.

To enroll:

NSEs: https://www.iapt.org.in (Aug 21 – Sep 14, 2022)

IOQM: https://www.mtai.org.in (Aug 8 – Sep 8, 2022)

Click here for more details

राष्ट्रीय ओलिंपियाड कार्यक्रम 2022-2023

होमी भाभा विज्ञान शिक्षा केंद्र

टाटा इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ फंडामेंटल रिसर्च

खगोल विज्ञान, जीव विज्ञान, रसायन विज्ञान, भौतिकी, जूनियर विज्ञान और गणित

कार्यक्रम में भाग लेने के इच्छुक सभी छात्रों को विज्ञान विषयों के लिए 26 और 27 नवंबर, 2022 को संबंधित राष्ट्रीय मानक परीक्षा (एनएसई) और गणित के लिए 30 अक्टूबर, 2022 को भारतीय ओलंपियाड क्वालीफायर (आईओक्यूएम) में भाग लेना अनिवार्य है।

NSE/IOQM में योग्यता 2023 के संबंधित अंतर्राष्ट्रीय ओलंपियाड में भाग लेने की दिशा में पहला कदम है।

नामांकन करना:

एनएसई (NSEs): https://www.iapt.org.in (Aug 21 – Sep 14, 2022)

आईओक्यूएम (IOQM): https://www.mtai.org.in (Aug 8 – Sep 8, 2022)

अधिक जानकारी के लिए यहां क्लिक करें

Announcement regarding National Olympiad Programme in Science subjects for 2021-2022 (updated 30 June 2022)

International Olympiads in 2022

The earlier announcements regarding International Olympiads of 2022, made on 12 May 2022, have been revised as follows. Two students have been disqualified for malpractice in one subject, causing the composition of some teams for international Olympiads to change. Also cutoff scores in three subjects (see above) have been lowered as a result of this.

International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA 2022)
The 15th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) will be held at Kutaisi, Georgia from August 14 to 22, 2022. The following students have been selected for the Indian team, based on their performance in the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Astronomy (IOQA) Part II and other eligibility criteria, as decided earlier, and availability for the international event:

ATHARVA NILESH MAHAJAN (MP11-1100-126792)
RAGHAV GOYAL (SR04-2110-108964)
MEHUL BORAD (SR26-2111-124217)
MALAY KEDIA (UP01-2110-147119)
MD SAHIL AKHTAR (WB16-2110-120531)

These students will be contacted by HBCSE separately with detailed instructions regarding their participation.

International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2022)
The 33rd International Biology Olympiad (IBO) will be held at Yerevan,  Armenia from July 10 to 18, 2022. The following students have been selected for the Indian team, based on their performance in the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Biology (IOQB) Part II and other eligibility criteria, as decided earlier, and availability for the international event:

ROHIT PANDA (CG00-0111-113149)
AMRITANSH NIGAM (DL00-0011-150999)
PRACHI JINDAL (DL00-0111-110106)
MAYANK PANDHARI (KA00-0111-136668)

These students will be contacted by HBCSE separately with detailed instructions regarding their participation.

International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO 2022)
The 54th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), organised by China, is announced to be held in the online mode during July 10 to 18, 2022. The following students have been selected for the Indian team, based on their performance in the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Chemistry (IOQC) Part II and other eligibility criteria, as decided earlier:

NIVESH AGGARWAL (CH04-1110-108970)
TANISHKA RAMESHCHANDRA KABRA (GJ00-1110-160224)
CHINMAY KHOKAR (SR04-1110-108973)
MAHIT RAJESH GADHIWALA (SR09-1111-143597)

These students will be contacted by HBCSE separately with detailed instructions regarding their participation.

International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO 2022)

As of now, there is no confirmation of the International Junior Science Olympiad scheduled to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine during December 2022. The following students have been selected for the Indian team (in case the event takes place), based on their performance in the Orientation-cum-Selection Camp held at HBCSE in June 2022:

ARITTRA MALHOTRA (DL00-3000-104837)
RAJDEEP MISHRA (GJ09-3000-144334)
DEVESH PANKAJ BHAIYA (MH08-3000-129832)
VASU VIJAY (RJ10-3000-129856)
BANIBRATA MAJEE (TS00-3000-123512)
AVANEESH BANSAL (UK03-3000-103929)

These students will be contacted by HBCSE separately with detailed instructions regarding their participation at an appropriate time, once the event is confirmed by the organisers.

International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2022)
The International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), organised by the Physics Olympiad Association of Switzerland, is announced to be held in the online mode during July 10 to 18, 2022. The following students have been selected for the Indian team, based on their performance in the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Physics (IOQP) Part II and other eligibility criteria, as decided earlier:

HARSH JAKHAR (CH04-1110-108944)
ANILESH BANSAL (HR00-1110-119021)
DEEVYANSHU MALU (OD00-1110-133470)
ABHIJEET ANAND (RJ00-0110-131743)
DHEERAJ KURUKUNDA (TS00-1110-124037)

These students will be contacted by HBCSE separately with detailed instructions regarding their participation.

Performance Cards for IOQ 2021-2022 Part II

Students who have qualified for the Indian Olympiad Qualifier 2021-2022 (IOQ) Part II in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Junior Science can download their Performance Cards from
https://secure.hbcse.tifr.res.in/ino/

INO Certificate of Merit

The students who would have qualified for the OCSCs in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, as per previously announced criteria, will be awarded the INO Certificate of Merit by HBCSE. The subject-wise cutoff scores are as follows:

Astronomy (Group A) : 46.
Astronomy (Group B) : 36.50
Biology : 187.5
Chemistry : 25.50
Physics : 34.00
Junior Science : 48.75

Students who have secured scores equal to or higher than these cutoff scores can download the certificate from https://secure.hbcse.tifr.res.in/ino/