The Physics World Cup The Physics World Cup - 25. IYPT Bad ...

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ear Participants
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37° 34’ N, 126° 59’ E; 43° 30’ 58” N, 16° 14’ 59” E;
39° 8’ N, 117° 11’ E; 48° 12’ N, 6° 22’ E; 35° 42’ N,
51° 25’ E… 48° 1’ N, 9° 30’ E, or in other
words after Seoul, Trogir, Tianjin, Vienna,
and Teheran, Bad Saulgau is the venue for
the 2012 IYPT .
We owe this to the Schülerforschungszentrum
Südwürttemberg (SFZ) whose center
is here in Bad Saulgau . Their outstanding work and excellent success have
brought the IYPT 2012 here to the heart of Upper Swabia .
I hope the IYPT 2012 will be a fantastic event not only for the participants,
but for those accompanying the teams and guests as well . I would like to
take this opportunity to express my thanks to the SFZ organizational team
for planning and preparing this competition .
I would like to welcome all of you to Bad Saulgau and wish you an unforgettable
stay, and the participants the best of luck for the competition . I
am certain that you, the participants, in spite of, or perhaps because of the
enormously challenging problems set to you will be able to prove untrue
a statement made by the German mathematician and theoretical physicist,
David Hilbert, that “Modern physics is much too difficult for physicists .”
Doris Schröter
Mayor of Bad Saulgau
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