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  • Monday, 9 October 2017
    • 08:00 - 18:00
      • 08:00 Registration / Administrative Formalities 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )
      • 09:00 Welcome & Opening 15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: George Thompson, Erika Coppola, Elizabeth Simmons, Shobhana Narasimhan
      • 09:15 Women in Physics: Context, Challenges and Changes 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons (Univ. California San Diego & Michigan State Univ., USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee Break / Registration 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 10:45 Ice Breaker Activities 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Maitri Gopalakrishnan (Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai, India)
      • 11:45 The sky is not the limit: A journey from Zimbabwe to the outer reaches of space 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Shazrene Mohamed (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
      • 12:45 Lunch Break 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:45 Workshop: Clear, Concise, Compelling: How to present your science to best effect 1h45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Allison Hatt, Sinead Griffin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A.)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 16:00 Workshop: Clear, Concise, Compelling: How to present your science to best effect (cont'd) 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Allison Hatt, Sinead Griffin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A.)
        Material: Slides
  • Tuesday, 10 October 2017
    • 09:00 - 20:00
      • 09:00 Information about ICTP activities 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Erika Coppola (ICTP)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:30 Information about TWAS-OWSD 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Tonya Blowers (TWAS-OWSD)
      • 10:00 Coffee 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Terrace )
      • 10:30 Workshop: Strategies for encouraging inquiry-based active learning in an undergraduate physics classroom 2h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Nelson Coates (California State University Marine Academy, U.S.A.)
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:45 Workshop: Publishing withouth Perishing 1h45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Shobhana Narasimhan (Jawarharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Workshop on preparing an effective CV (Part I) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons, Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:30 POSTER SESSION 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - (Lower Level 1) )
        Speaker: ALL
      • 18:30 RECEPTION 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
  • Wednesday, 11 October 2017
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 World Cafe Format Discussion (coffee served during discussion) 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
        Speaker: Anuradha Srinivasan
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Panel discussion on How to Combine Career and Family 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Allison Hatt, Atish Dabholkar, Marcello DalMonte, Y. Edith Sanchez Mendoza (LBNL, ICTP High Energy, ICTP Condensed Matter, Nat'l. Univ. of Colombia)
      • 12:00 How to prepare successful grant proposals 45' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Joe Niemela (ICTP rep. to SESAME)
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:45 Workshop on Challenges in the Workplace (Group A) 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Maitri Gopalakrishnan
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 15:30 Workshop on Challenges in the Workplace (Group A) cont'd. 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Maitri Gopalakrishnan
  • Thursday, 12 October 2017
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      • 09:00 Multiferroics and Me 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Nicola Spaldin (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule - ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Proactive Measures for Gender Equity at ICTP 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Fernando Quevedo, Ali Hassanali, Antonio Celani, Nadia Binggeli, Riccardo Farneti, Stefano Luzzato (ICTP: Director, Condensed Matter, Qualitative Life Sciences, Applied Physics, Earth System Physics, Maths)
      • 11:30 Workshop on preparing an effective CV (Part 2) 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons, Sekhar Chivukula
        Material: Slides
      • 12:45 Lunch 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:45 Workshop on Challenges in the Workplace (Group B) 1h15' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Maitri Gopalakrishnan
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 15:30 Workshop on Challenges in the Workplace (Group B) cont'd. 2h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Maitri Gopalakrishnan
  • Friday, 13 October 2017
    • 09:00 - 16:30
      • 09:00 Panel Discussion on Women in Physics in Africa - Chair: Ali Hassanali, ICTP 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Shazrene Mohamed, Winfred Mulwa, Rim Cherif, Redrisse Djoumessi (Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tunisia, Cameroon)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 10:30 Workshop on Negotiation Skills 1h55' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons, Sekhar Chivukula (Michigan State University, USA)
        Material: Handout Slides
      • 12:25 Lunch break 55' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:20 Summary and Discussion of World Cafe' 20' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Elizabeth Simmons
        Material: Slides
      • 13:40 Where is the opportunity: it is here and now 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Arti Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India)
      • 14:10 Concluding Session 30'
        Speaker: All
      • 14:40 Transfer to Leonardo Building 50'
      • 15:30 ICTP COLLOQUIUM: From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope 1h0' ( Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall )
        Speaker: Nicola Spaldin (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule - ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)