Within 40 Teams Participating in The PLANCKS22 International Exam Program Students of the Department of Physics at UoB Excel in Classical Mechanics

Sakhir – University of Bahrain (Khadijah Abdusalem)
3 July 2022
A team of students from the Department of Physics at the College of Science at the University of Bahrain (UoB) managed to obtain an excellence degree in one of the branches of physics “classical mechanics”, outperforming the team from the University of Cambridge, Britain, in the international exam program for Physics PLANCKS22, which was held recently in Munich, Germany.
Four students from the Department of Physics participated in the annual PLANCKS22 international competition in theoretical physics, organized by the German Physics Society, which included 40 teams from forty of the most prestigious universities around the world.
Dr. Jawaher bint Shaheen Al-Mudhahki, President of UoB, congratulated the College of Science, its Physics Department, and the students and professors on this honorable achievement, and stated this achievement is not unusual from the students of UoB in general, and the students of the College of Sciences, especially those who have always excelled in international competitions. She also pointed out the importance of these competitions for students, as they stimulate the spirit of competition and create a global network of acquaintance between them and their peers from students belonging to the participating universities.
While Dr. Hanan Mubarak Buflasa, Head of the Physics Department at the College of Science, said the participation of the Physics Department student team is an opportunity to put the Physics Department at UoB on the platform of participation with the best physics departments in the world, which is a great achievement, expressing her hope to continue this challenge in the coming years.
Furthermore, she added that the PLANCKS22 exam this year was hybrid, as part of the teams came to Munich to take the exam, while the rest of the teams were allowed to take the exam remotely due to the conditions of the Corona epidemic (Covid-19).
The exam organizing committee in Germany assigned Dr. Mohammed Yousif Hussain, assistant professor from the Physics Department, to be the supervisor of the exam in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Dr. Hussain confirmed the Physics Department team passed the challenge and placed the Physics Department among the top forty physics departments in the world, noting that the Department’s team – made up of students: Ali Muhammad Redha, Asif Ayoub Mohammed, Sayed Ali Madan, and Kamil Abdulaziz Radhi – is the only team representing the Middle East in the exam.
The International Physics Exam was held for advanced-stage physics students and master’s students from various universities around the world and included solving 10 complex physics problems in various topics (such as classical mechanics, cosmic scales, general relativity, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and theories of the creation of the universe).

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