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See below a photo of our 2025 Team Canada, our National Physics Olympiad team, who will be competing in the 2025 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) in Paris, France, this July. [from left to right: back row: Wuhua Zhu, Hongi Huang, Zander Li, Robert Yang and He Gong; front row instructors: Simin Bhageri-Najmi, Joanna Karczmarek, Lior Silberman and Andrzej Kotlicki]

And here are our 2025 UBC National Physics Olympiad Training Camp participants! [from left to right – back row: Hongi Huang, Jishnu Jetwani, Wuhua Zhu, Juntian Ye, Parth Sheth, Zander Li and Warren Bei; middle row: Anton Lazarchyk, William Ma, Frang Fang, Julia Lin, Robert Yang, and He Gong; front row: Nick Kamali]

Thank you to our instructors: Andrzej, Joanna, Lior, Simin, Samin and Abhisek; staff: Chloe; and UBC PHAS department and Faculty of Science members Fiona Beaty, Mark MacLachan, and Jeremy Heyl.

National Training Camps

2025

Some photos from this year’s camp!

2024

Photos from this year’s camp!

2023

See below a photo of Team Canada, our National Physics Olympiad team, who competed in, and received four Bronze Medals and one Honourable Mention at the 53rd International Physics Olympiad in Tokyo, Japan. Congratulations, team!

UBC hosted the National Olympiad Training Camp in May, 2023. See gallery pictures, below for activities, tours and people!

Thank you to our instructors: Andrzej, Joanna, Lior, Shovon and Emilie; tour guides Callum, Abhishek, Cole, James and Niclas; and UBC faculty and staff Colin Gay, Sajjan Grewal, and Fiona Beaty.

Team Canada, 2023

See some photos from our training camp and competition!

Lab tests
TRIUMF: Canada’s particle accelerator tour led by Callum
Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (SBQMI) tour led by James Day
Instructors: Andrzej, Joanna, Lior and Shovon (see Emilie in ‘Lectures’ above)
Quantenkoffer demo with Niclas
A successful lab!
Camp finale dinner with UBC Department of Physics & Astronomy Head, Dr. Colin Gay

53rd IPhO, Tokyo, Japan