We are happy to announce the Seventh International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics for secondary school students, which will take place from 26 July to 31 July 2009 in the city of Wroclaw, Poland.
The world's Sixth International Olympiad in Linguistics was successfully held in August 2008 in the seaside resort Sunny Beach,
Bulgaria. (More information about this event can be found at the address
http://iol6.linguistics-bg.com).
We invite the participation of teams of up to four contestants who must be students of a school for secondary education and younger than 19 years at the time of the Second International Olympiad. No more then two teams per country are allowed to the Olympiad. Those requiring a visa to enter Poland will receive assistance with the formalities.
Competitors will need no special knowledge to solve the problems offered at the International Olympiad. Each linguistic problem is dedicated to some interesting phenomenon in one or several languages. There will be two contests: an individual and a team one.
For preliminary registration for participation in the International Olympiad, write to Michal.Sliwinskimath.uni.wroc.pl (Michal Sliwinski) and tchervenkovgmail.com (Todor Tchervenkov) no later than 31 April 2009.
If possible, indicate the approximate age of the contestants and their experience, if any, with solving linguistic problems. Teams which fail to meet this deadline are not guaranteed the right of participation. The final application must be sent by the team leader by a date which will be communicated later; it will have to contain the list of team members together with the language in which each of them wishes to have the problems of the individual contest, as well as the language in which the team will receive the problems of the team contest.
The Organising Committee also invites cooperation towards obtaining financial and media coverage support of the International Olympiad from academic, educational and commercial institutions, as well as all those involved in linguistic research and development who are interested in attracting young talent from all over the world into this discipline.
Sincerely,
Todor Tchervenkov
Chair of the Problem Committee
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