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ICTP will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Postgraduate Diploma Programme with a three-day event (mostly online) aimed at Diploma alumni who want to reconnect. The goal is to foster regional networks of alumni. The event will feature discussions on the history and the impact of the programme through the voice of the students and more in general the theme of high-level education in the developing world. The celebrations will take place from 23 to 25 August 2021.

The keynote speaker for the event will be 2020 Nobel Laureate in Physics Andrea M. Ghez, professor of physics and astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine chair in astrophysics at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is one of the world's leading experts in observational astrophysics and heads UCLA's Galactic Center Group. She is best known for her ground-breaking work on the center of our Galaxy, which has led to the best evidence to date for the existence of supermassive black holes. Ghez earned her B.S from MIT in 1987, and her PhD from Caltech in 1992 and has been on the faculty at UCLA since 1994.


Activities will include:

  • Ceremony for the graduation of the 2021 class
  • Colloquia by role-model Diploma alumni
  • Talks by prominent figures in science and education
  • Discussion about Diploma and Women in Science
  • Parallel sessions in various regions of the world to foster the creation of networks

Event Information

As this is an online event, feel free to use the coffee breaks as a pause from the online activities. You can use the breaks to chat with fellow participants through the platform wonder.me. Simply click the link, add your name, and find friends and colleagues in the virtual coffee break https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7c64f0e5-e72c-476e-921a-5508914beaba room. The platform will open 30 minutes prior to the beginning of the event and close 30 minutes after the end of the last session.

Sessions will be open to registered participants only. Some sessions will be livestreamed and available to the general public on ICTP’s YouTube Channel.

Pre - Events

Regional Networking Meetings will be held the week before the Diploma 30th Anniversary, on 19 and 20 August.
 

Material

Graduation for the Diploma Class 2021 in Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the ICTP Diploma | (smr 3595)
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  • Monday, 23 August 2021
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Monday 23 August 2021: Building ICTP Alumni Connections Globally 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
      • 14:00 Welcome Ceremony 15'
        Speaker: Atish Dabholkar (ICTP Director)
      • 14:15 Welcome Ceremony 15'
        Speaker: Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi (Retired Deputy Director of ICTP, co-founder of the Diploma Programme)
      • 14:30 Icebreaker Activity 20'
        Speaker: Paolo Creminelli (Researcher, HECAP, ICTP)
      • 14:50 Alumni Networking: A Case Study 25'
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf Zahid (ICTP Associate & Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
      • 15:15 Coffee Break 15' ( wonder.me ) 
        https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7c64f0e5-e72c-476e-921a-5508914beaba
      • 15:30 Diversity and Barriers in Science 45'
        Speaker: Sylvester James Gates (Jr, President, American Physical Society, Brown Theoretical Physics Center Director, Ford Foundation Professor of Physics & Affiliate Professor of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, USA)
      • 16:15 Fighting Systemic Gender Discrimination in Science 45'
        Speaker: Shobhana Narasimhan (Professor of Theoretical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India)
  • Tuesday, 24 August 2021
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Tuesday 24 August 2021 - Alumni Careers: In Research & Beyond 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
      • 14:00 Regional Networking Reports 45' 
        Regional Coordinators:
• Africa: Chimene Laure Daleu, Maryse Nkoua, Angela
Tabiri
• Latin America: Daniele Alves, Pavel Fileviez Perez,
Yannet Interian, Javier Montoya, Mayly Sanchez
• Far East: Narayan Adhikari, Sarah Jaye Oliva,
Reinabelle Reyes, Manjil Saikia
• Near East: Muhammed Alhroob, Imrana Ashraf, Fawzy
Hegab
      • 14:45 Group Photo 15'
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 15' ( wonder.me ) 
        https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7c64f0e5-e72c-476e-921a-5508914beaba
      • 15:15 Careers Roundtable 1h15' 
        • Freddy Cachazo ‘97,
Gluskin Sheff Freeman Dyson Chair in Theoretical
Physics at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Reinabelle Reyes ‘06,
Associate Professor, National Institute of Physics, University
of the Philippines-Diliman, Head of Analytic
at the Ayala Corporation, Host of tv show “Science
Says,” Manila, Philippines
• Ntoi Paul Rapapa ‘95,
Member of Senate, and former Minister of Education
and Training, Government of Lesotho, Maseru, Lesotho
• Mabouba Diagne ‘98,
Vice-President, Finance and Corporate Services,
ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)
• Rondrotiana Barimalala ‘07,
Department of Oceanography, University of Cape
Town, Cape Town, South Africa
        Speaker: Moderated by alumni Nushkia Chamba ‘17 & Stephane Kenmoe ‘11
      • 16:30 Panelist Breakout Rooms 30'
        Speaker: Moderated by Cachazo, Reyes, Rapapa, Diagne and Barimalala
  • Wednesday, 25 August 2021
    • 13:30 - 14:30 Wednesday 25 August 2021 - Celebrating the class of 2021
      • 13:30 Awarding of 2021 Class Diplomas and Graduation Speeches 1h0' ( Zoom meeting & livestreaming )
        Speaker: Atish Dabholkar & Diploma Coordinators, Patrizia Passarella, Sandra Alimanovic
    • 16:15 - 19:30 Wednesday 25 August 2021 - Celebrating 1000 Graduates & 30 Years 16:15 - 18:30 CEST
      • 16:15 Event Overview and Moving Forward - Interactive Session 15'
        Speaker: Paolo Creminelli (Researcher, HECAP, ICTP)
      • 16:30 Event Overview and Moving Forward - Presentation of QLS Diploma Programme 15'
        Speaker: Antonio Celani (Researcher, QLS, ICTP)
      • 16:45 Event Overview and Moving Forward - Future Alumni Ideas 15'
        Speaker: Fernando Villegas (Senior Researcher, MATH, ICTP)
      • 17:00 Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes 1h0' 
        KEYNOTE SPEECH
        Speaker: Andrea Ghez (Professor of Astrophysics at the University of California - Los Angeles, USA & 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner)
      • 18:00 Closing Remarks 30'
        Speaker: Atish Dabholkar (ICTP Director)
      • 18:30 Class of 2021 Graduation Reception 1h0' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
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