7th INTERNATIONAL STUDENT OLYMPIAD ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL (BOAC'99)
                         26th - 28th May, 1999
       http://www.rus.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/EDCOM.html#Olympiad


                   
ORGANIZED BY
 Ministry of General and Professional Education of Russian Federation
       Committee on Science and Higher School of Administration
                       of Saint-Petersburg
         St.Petersburg Informatics and Control Society
     St.Petersburg State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics
        Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering of 
                   Russian Academy of Sciences

IN COOPERATION WITH
    IFAC   Technical   Committee  on   Control Education  (EDCOM) 
    of  the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

SCOPE OF THE OLYMPIAD
The aims of the Olympiad are to promote human and professional contacts
of  students  from  different  countries  and  to support gifted young
researchers in the field of Automatic Control.
The program of the Olympiad includes:
- tasks solving contest (Educational Section);
- student papers contest (Research Section);
- tutorial lecture for participants;
- cultural events including sightseeing tours and evening parties.

REGULATIONS
The  Olympiad  is open for all students  undertaking an  undergraduate
or  postgraduate  course  in  Automatic  Control  and  related  fields
(Electrical/Electronics    Engineering,   Computer   Science,   Signal
Processing and so on) as well as to young researchers (younger than 30
in 1999).

Educational Section is open for undergraduate students only. The parti-
cipants of the section will receive a set of tasks from the fields:
- Control Theory;
- Digital and Analog Electronics;
- Information Theory.
The  results  will be evaluated by a jury and winners will be awarded.
The official languages of the Section are English and Russian.

Research  Section  is  open  for  both  undergraduate and postgraduate
students  as  well  as  for young researchers. The participants of the
section  will be invited to give an oral presentation  (15-20 min)  of
their  research   results.  Significance of the results and quality of
presentation will be evaluated by a jury and the winners will be awar-
ded. The official language of the Section is English.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS and REGISTRATION FORMS
To participate in the Olympiad, please send a registration form (enclo-
sed below) to the BOAC'99 Secretariat before February 1, 1999.

To participate in the Research Section a one-page abstract or the draft
version  of  the paper  should  be submitted to the BOAC'99 Secretariat
before February 1, 1999. E-mail submission is encouraged.

After notification of acceptance the camera-ready copy of the full paper
(up to five double spaced pages typed within the frame 240x165mm,   font
size  not  less  than 10 points, one column) should be also submitted to
the  BOAC'99 Secretariat  before April 10, 1999 (e-mail paper submission
in LATEX or Word 6.0 formats is acceptable). The Proceedings volume will
be distributed while registration on May 25-26, 1999.

PAYMENT
The  registration  fee  of the Olympiad  (partially covering the costs of
Olympiad Proceedings, participation in the social program, breakfasts and
lunches during the Olympiad and accommodation in the University hostels)
will  not  exceed US$ 100. It can be paid in cash while on site registra-
tion on May 25-26, 1999.

WHERE TO SUBMIT
Submission of papers, applications for participation and further
information, please send to:

Dr. V. Nikiforov, BOAC'99 Secretariat
Dept. of Automatics and Remote Control
St.Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics
Sablinskaya str. 14
197101 St.Petersburg, RUSSIA

E-mail of the Organizing Committee: olymp99@ait.beam.ifmo.ru

More information can be found on the WEB:
http://www.rus.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/EDCOM.html#Olympiad

              INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

   Co-Chairmen:       A.L. Fradkov (Russia)   L.Ljung (Sweden)

   Members: Representatives of the Universities sending their students
            to the Olympiad

              NATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
                 V. Grigoryev - Chairman
                 V. Nikiforov - Co-Chairman
                 A. Lyamin - Olympiad Secretary
            G. Boltunov         A. Ushakov
            V. Korolev          V. Vasiliev
            Yu. Kotelnikov      N. Zotov