A brief history…
The International Physicists’ Tournament was born in Ukraine in 2009 as a continuation of a long tradition of physics competitions in the USSR. It brought together 16 teams from the leading universities of Ukraine and neighboring countries. The two first editions of the tournament took place at Kiev University, and the third and fourth editions occurred at the Moscow Institute of Technology in Russia. In 2013, the tournament moved west, to Switzerland where the fifth and sixth editions took place at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The tournament stayed in Europe for the subsequent years, until in 2022 the IPT got to South America, and was hosted in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Over the years, more and more countries took part in this event. In 2022, the tournament brought together fifteen countries (despite the pandemic-related drop): Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Romania, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the UK.
In the rightmost column of the table, you will be able to see detailed results and individual performances on our tournament management system. Note that results are usually updated live here during the tournament!
* hover your mouse over to see the list of participating countries
Participating Institutions
Below is a list, along with country of origin, of the institutions that have and currently are participating in the IPT. This may be either through only the pre-selection or the final tournament. Alongside is also indicated past victories with a ★. Hover over a team to also see the year (s) in which they participated. If your university/institution is missing, do let us know! And, if you want to be part of this list, also send us an email.
- Federal University of ABC
- University of Campinas
- University of Queensland
- Nankai University
- Universidad de los Andes
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Universidad Industrial de Santander
- Universidad del Valle
- University of Zagreb
- Technical University of Denmark
- Paris-Saclay University
- ENSTA Paris
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon★
- Ecole Normale Superieure Ulm
- Ecole Polytechnique★
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Freie Universität Berlin
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- University of Crete
- Politecnico di Milano
- University of Milan
- University of Bologna
- Aymi
- IISER Bhopal
- Shiv Nadar University
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Andrei Saguna National College
- University of Ljubljana
- University of Madrid
- NUST
- University of Warsaw
- Science Club Fenix
- Chalmers University of Technology
- KTH royal institute of technology
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne★
- ETH Zürich
- Voronezh State University
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- University of California: Berkeley
- William Marsh Rice University
- Harvard University
- Dartmouth College
- Columbia University
- Oklahoma State University
- University of Nottingham
- King’s College London
- UCL
- Lviv Polytechnic
- Kharkiv National University★
- Kiev National University
- Universidad Simon Bolivar