 Okay, so welcome everybody, it's really wonderful to see all of you here, I think for the first time in fact in the last year that I'm seeing so many people in this hall, I have to say that I'm incredibly proud of this particular year that we succeeded in continuing with our program, this was a difficult decision for ICTP but we were really determined to bring all our students from all over the world here, I know that it was a very difficult year for you also and you should be proud of yourself for you know coming out of it successfully, I know that the difficulties were from of all kinds being away in this very strange times in a new country in a way being confined to the guest house and if it has been a success it's really thanks to the great colleagues that we have at ICTP and especially the coordinators, as you know Professor Chalani, Professor Guarce, Professor Farnetti, Professor Criminally and Professor Kishilev and of course Patritsia and Sandra, they have been together with the medical section and all the other team that actually worked here quite hard just to keep the COVID regulations in place, there was a COVID response team, they were meeting every week to really make sure that your safety is guaranteed, I know that many people had dietary restrictions or all kinds of personal difficulties and I hope that ICTP really supported you and I hope you had a good time here, it is difficult to connect with your friends also here which is one of the best aspects of ICTP's life but I think I do hope that you made good friends here and as some of the speakers said as you must have seen your ear is special for two reasons, one is that of course we are living through this strange time so you had the COVID year in a way, second COVID year but also because of the 30th year and you have seen how deeply people feel connected to ICTP even those who have left 20 years ago, it was really wonderful to see people who have gone on to become and some of you will, I'm sure all of you will flourish in your own chosen field but you saw that a whole broad spectrum of people going from work in theoretical physics to becoming a minister in their own country or being the vice president of a finance company so all these doors are open to you and I do hope that you will, ICTP will remain in your hearts and we will remain connected, I think that was part of the reason for this reunion that we really want to build this community and keep it as a community as a family for the years to come so that you have friends, colleagues and mentors you know to guide you to support you throughout your career. So I would like to give now the floor so thank, so congratulations first of all I have to say to all of you I guess we will congratulate each of you individually and I have to say that this is this is one of the most personally for me also of course my own research is important but when I see the graduation ceremony and how diverse is our student body it's one of the moments when I really feel proud of ICTP's mission so congratulations once again I would like to give the floor to Professor Misha Kisilev particularly because of the role that he has played unfortunately Professor George Thompson could not make it today he will also represent George but also he played a very important role in coordinating all these activities during the COVID times so please Misha I would request it to thank you thank you very much can you hear me yeah well I'm going to be short it's sort of improvised speech and first of all I would like to congratulate all of you with your success this day is very important for you you are graduated today and you are heroes of this day so it was difficult here indeed I remember that students start to arrive middle of September and start arriving can arriving can arriving stay staying self-isolation learn many things in this self-isolation then we started program and some of students were still connected being in their home countries and you know we you I think learned many things the year was difficult and my feeling is more difficult than the previous one but as you learned something from your senior colleagues we also learned a lot this year we learned how to teach in this hybrid form when part of the audience is online and part of the audience is present we learned how to increase the interaction between students and lecturers because interaction is very important you know science in general and theoretical physics in particular is based on personal context so people learn more through the personal context so with my congratulations I would also like to thank you all students for your devotion and your patience most of the time you were staying in one of the guest houses you were using ICP facilities but it was really unusual both for you and for ICTP second I would like to personally thank Patrice and Sandra and I think they deserve applause and I would like to thank all ICTP team I apologize if I forgot to mention some people or offices but I'm thankful to housing because they provide for you very friendly and very efficient environment to live and work I would like to thank ICTS our computer section for providing you constant support in the time when you learn things I would like to thank all the lecturers who helped you to learn theoretical physics and in particular I would like to thank supervisors those who are present here in this budinich lecture hall and those who are not present for their personal help to you to mature in physics I would like to thank your tutor our young generation our postdocs and also to thank your family members for your support during this difficult time and of course I would like to thank the ICTP director for constant support and a very efficient way to solve problems in particular problem with food and other problem so thank you very much now we start with high energy I think good to see you so I join the congratulations by the way I am not the coordinator of the high energy diploma but Giovanni Villador could not be here so I'm a substitute team okay so we're going to hand one by one the diploma let me start with Abdullah Rahman Almagari he's from Palestine and the title of his thesis was top core peer production with the ATLAS experiment under the supervision of Bobby Acciaria who is not here today so that the process is that the director will give the thesis and and that's it and then there is a photograph at the center and the student come down yeah we can do namaste since we cannot shake hands sorry congratulations the next person already left for the United States so he's now joining hopefully on zoom Eric are you there maybe it's it's muted so the anyway the second student is Eric Arguello from Ecuador the title of this thesis was anti the sitter traversable war moles under the supervision of Kiriakos Papadodimas and I see Eric on zoom so let's congratulate congratulations Eric then we have Samir Belalui from Algeria the title of this thesis was evolution of the cosmic microwave cosmic I apologize a neutrino background and physics beyond the standard model under the supervision of Alexei Smirnov Samir in a ill boot Pakistan her work was about action a dark matter under the supervision of Giovanni Villador graduation then we have Carlo Cruz Sanchez from Peru his thesis was about the quantum field theory is a consistency from scattering amplitudes under the supervision of John Elias Miro wait a second wait a second the supervisor is coming okay great you go that way no you go there yeah he's in the middle yeah yeah you can come a bit closer congratulations so we now have Ahmed El Sherbini from Egypt his thesis was about cosmological perturbations and inflationary theory under the supervision of Paolo Creminelli with myself and Vicciarit Hintiaroenrat congratulations Paolo also oh we go to Mongolia we have Erdene Bulgan Lagvadori and her thesis was about sterile neutrino dark matter and neutrino mass generation under the supervision of Alexei Smirnov correct the next one is Arpon Paul from Bangladesh is already left for the United States so it should be on zoom let's wait if he appears in the meanwhile I read the thesis semi-classical ground state wave function using three level written diagrams under the supervision of Merdad Mirvabai congratulations Arpon the last but not least we have Safran Yakub from Bahrain I think he's not present but anyway so congratulate anyway and his thesis was about reconstructing black hole interior from the CFT under the supervision of Kiryako Papadodimas congratulations also to Safran it's quite amazing that we have not repeated a country so far right all the countries have been different okay we continue with condensed students so I would like to congratulate miss Julia Basila from Kongan she did her diploma work entitled lipid bilayers as model plasma membrane experimental theoretical synergy to tactile increase in complexity under supervision of Ali Hassan Ali and Loredana Kazalis so the next is Joshua Kassapal from Philippines he defended his thesis multi-partite entanglement dynamics across a superfluous later phase transition under supervision of Alessandro Silva Joshua next is miss Maha Sunan from Tunisia and she did her diploma work entitled control of the exchange coupling in graphene based synthetic antifer magnets a density functional study under supervision of Natasha Stoic thank you Maha thank you Natasha so the next is miss Piliushka Barakoli from Uganda and her post graduate diploma work entitled monolayer of molybden diesel feed for the hydrogen evolution reaction perspective based on density functional theory is done at the supervision of Ralph Gibauer the next is miss Lien Le from Vietnam and her thesis a hetero junction of transition metal halkogenites a computational view on interface was done at the supervision of Ralph Gibauer and the next is Valerius Liga Setiavan from Indonesia he did his thesis entanglement detection utilizing moments of partial transpose under supervision of Marcella Dabonte Victoria Vitale and Giuseppe Santorum so Marcella and Giuseppe are here next is Jonach Nagura from Nigeria and his thesis optical properties of organic dice the role of salvation is done under supervision of Ralph Gibauer so the next is Rolander Amiris Kamaska from Peru he did his thesis transport properties of disordered SU2 symmetric spin chains under supervision of Antonella's Cardicum and you have miss Pugetapa from Nepal and her thesis interaction of water molecules with two-dimensional materials density function approach is done under supervision of Ralph Gibauer thank you very much my congratulations so we proceed with our system physics so I'd like to start by congratulating all of you it's been a difficult year but we made it together and we're all very happy for you so we can start with Grace Afram who's in the US I believe and she's joining us on zoom she did a work on our monthly and interana cloud radiative forcing variations good proxies for long-term cloud climate feedbacks supervised by agent Tompkins she's not connected it would look like it's your thesis you finally made it okay next also on zoom is Aminat Ambelaroon the the thesis on covariances between Barrens Cara December CS anomaly index and atmospheric circulation anomalies on interanial scale supervised by freco husky congratulations Aminat and the next one is Coyote Ayetbusi with the thesis on investigating the impacts of El Nino southern oscillation on monthly extreme climate conditions in Africa supervised by freco husky next is with a thesis on a new look at sea surface temperature hotspots convective organization and the diurnal cycle in tropical western pacific observations supervised by agent Tompkins and she's present next is Alejandra Quintanilla the thesis on study of improvements and persistent biases in the modeling of the humble current system analyzing the simi 5 and simi 6 supervised by myself congratulations to the next is Amelia Sanchez the thesis on atlantic won't pull in simi 6 models and observations against supervised by myself and next is Dungvu with a thesis on measuring group velocity dispersion curves using ambient noise cross correlations supervised by Karim Audia and Sadegi and finally Tophic Yakubu with a work on application of receiver function technique and ambient noise tomography in central apennines supervised by Karim Audia and Daniel Manu Morph good afternoon and congratulations to all of you so the first one is Rahama Sani Abdullah he from Nigeria she's he's not home he's not here she did the whole program from home in Nigeria and so the title of her thesis is towards the sharp house dwarf young's inequality and the supervisor was Emmanuel Canelo congratulations Rahama thank you so now we have Jones Ben-Yahia from Algeria and the title of his project was vector bundles and the turn 5 theory and the supervision of Pavel Putrov oh he should be here he should be here but yeah anyway i'm sorry okay what should we do i should we can take the photo later maybe next one is Ajay Gautam from Nepal and the title of his project was an introduction to Hilbert schemes of points under my supervision sorry we hold it together we hold it together like this congratulations Ajay yeah uh we'll keep now uh we have uh Huba Hossain from Egypt the title of her the title of her thesis was a study of us srb measures on action a attractors under the supervision of Stefano Luzato who is not here i don't know what the this was Huba and i had already done Gautam welcome yes yes i've done so anyway she's not here so okay the we'll go ahead so the next one is Min Haolin from Malaysia and he did his thesis on block structured random matrices under the supervision of Jacob O'Grillie so now comes Mir Muxin Makhmudov from Uzbekistan and he did his project with Stefano Luzato on topological pressure and its relationship with invariant measures okay now comes uh Tolovani Okunula from Nigeria and she did her project again with Stefano Luzato on the existence and approximation of the unique physical measure of the Manneville map okay uh next comes uh no okay so next comes von von Pytak Trakuldik uh from so i mean i think that doesn't work uh no i mean von Pytak Trakuldik who is uh not here he also did his project from home i mean his whole year from home except um and his project was on spaces of constant curvature under the direction of Claudio Arezzo and Alessandra Ottiman anyway i mean me so um before we we also have Unite Ratsak from Pakistan who did his project on link invariance and hop algebra under the direction of Pavel Kutte okay thank you very much now we proceed with quantitative lights life signs Antonio you made it finally right great so let's start with Said Azizi from Afghanistan who made his final project on invariant object recognition based on pixel representation under the supervision of Jean Barbier and David Zoccolan Dionys Bitton from the Philippines worked on all-factor research with reinforcement learning using long short-term memory networks under my supervision and with the help of Anna Forero Pinto from Colombia mathematical models of proliferative control under my supervision and next we have Idris Quadri from Algeria numerical study of stochastic belief propagation under supervision of Jean Barbier next Boris Nafak from Cameroon investigating the emergence of convolution from invariance under the supervision of Alessandro Ingrosso and we have Ivana Rondon from Venezuela cell size control in non-stationary conditions under the supervision of Jacopo Grilli thank you next is Yonatan Sarmiento from Venezuela stochastic models of stem cell division under the supervision of Edgar well done congratulations thank you we close with Kaira El Verano from the Philippines a reinforcement learning approach to spider ballooning uh under my supervision and congratulations to you all you all students you should be exceptionally proud to have made it in such a extenuating circumstances so so difficult okay so we are really really very proud of you stay there how does it how do they so now it's time to award the best students of the year in each section so we first start with high energy there are two best students Eric Aguela congratulations Eric congratulations and the best student is up on pole the best high energy student so he's also connected by zoom our congratulations are upon this year is really exceptional we also have two best students in condensed matter section so i would like to call Joshua Kassapao from Philippines and we call Rolander Ramirez Kamaska from Peru as the best condensed matter student of 2020-2021 our system physics we call Nishiyanka De Vera from Philippines the best 2020-2021 students in mathematics is Ajay Gotam from Nepal Ajay connected by zoom congratulations Ajay congratulations and in 2085 science the best students for 2020-2021 academic year is Kirill Verano from Philippines okay um and i think now it's time for students to say and share with us your experience good experience bad experience share your impressions as usual we start with high energy um if there is someone from high energy who wants to say something to everybody please everyone good afternoon i'm not preparing anything so bear with me a little bit uh most of you know me not because of my cuteness of course but because most of the Adriatico warnings was because of me sorry about that uh this year have been really hard and really difficult on all of us in many aspects uh assignments exams running after pass number six a lot uh many many many aspects and if i talking about the hard times of course i cannot uh ignore Giovanni's oral exam like no one can ignore that uh lots lots lots of hard and difficult times but personally this year was hard for me for for a couple of personal reasons one of them is that i i lost one of my family members and also my my professor uh but instead of finding the pressure instead of finding people who are uh eager to get the assignment actually the coordinator asked me to come and he asked me what what we can do what the ictb can offer that is really important to mention because this reflect is what the ictb is really is it is not just a place where you go and have some lectures and do some assignments it's much more than this it's a home it's a home for science and it's also home for scientists it is really important to mention that so from here i want to thank all of the ictp members all of the ictp stuff i don't want to forget anyone and um for sure uh for sure my supervisor just about uh thank you for standing by me all all day all in the darkest hours and in the hardest days uh i remember in the first meeting of the thesis it was really bad uh that professor bowler was like uh uh not too bad but of course his face was like he was having a stroke so thank you for surviving through all of this uh it is really hard to be a brilliant scientist but it's even harder to be a good man so thank you for being a good man as you are a brilliant scientist for sure um and if i really wanted to say something that is what that i want to be here to be the following for the upcoming students for for all the people hearing me now uh always be fearless never be afraid of anything never be afraid of lose anything uh most of the cruel and the brutal deeds in the history of mankind have been done uh out of fear and weakness not out of the person who have done it is a bad person always try to be the best version of yourself uh always try to be yourself because that is the most noble thing you can do enjoy the journey don't just stuck to the list of of targets that you set and forget to enjoy the journey because at the very end if you achieved all of your goals uh and you didn't get to enjoy the journey i doubt you will you would be satisfied and of course uh i can't thank much my my wolf pack the hiccups section all of my friends who made this year especially more than i can imagine thank you all all of beautiful memories well crazy memories not just beautiful i mean guys jumping in in the middle of december in a frozen water that's crazy it's just crazy lots lots of memories thank thank you for all of this and uh maybe i i want to say this from rhodiot kibling uh one one of rhodiot kibling quotes was what is moral who rides may read when the night is thick and the tracks are client a friend at a bench is a friend indeed but a fool to wait for a lager behind down to jinn or up to the throne i travel the fastest when i travel alone congratulations to you all and uh go conquer the world thank you more speech from from py energy please don't don't be shy if you want to say something please so can then smetham yeah this is your chance to get back to your professor so lian wants to say something please good afternoon professors staff families connecting online alumni my friends and my colleagues of diploma 2021 it's my honor to to stand in front of you today when i first came to ictp like other students i was driven to excel to be the best in academics and the diploma programs really brings me of the competitive side our independence and the drive to push our boundaries we may see how those qualities serve us well by looking at the success of diplomat alumni but is that the success in academics is all we need to have a happiness in life it's not until recently that i realized happiness is doesn't just come from academics achievements but mainly from the relationship with people around us to let them into our lives and reaching out to support the community feeling at home is not what i expected when i first came to ictp which is more than 5 000 miles far away from my home country vietnam but this happened to me i still remember the first day cmsp students attend the class in person professor kiss a lap went to the galley little guesthouse to take us to the leona door building this was really a warm and touching moment which reminds me of the past when my parents took me to the school let me ask you some questions how many of you still feel sad now because of getting c in the course or the sadness just just lasts for some days and then it fades away but how many of you regret losing the the the contact with a close friend or missing the chance to continue collaborating with a friendly colleague if i have the chance to meet noble laureates i'll ask them whether the noble prize is the motivation for them to work happily with full of joy every day i guess the answer is no then i'll ask them whether the beauty of science is the only motivation that drives them to work tirelessly every day against all the difficulties that they encounter while conducting research or is that the boundless inspiration warm in encouragement sense of optimism from their colleagues play a bigger part in motivating every day working day the covid pandemic somehow illustrates how important it is to have your colleagues be signed research will go much smoother when you usually exchange ideas with your colleagues even some jokes friendly smiles encourage you to continue working when you are stuck it is of enormous important to to for someone to let in a community and at ictp i do believe no one has the feeling of an outsider the covid pandemic also allows us to to see how people in ictp community taking care of others i still remember it was in only 2020 i was still a bachelor's student and hadn't had any chance to come to ictp however one day i saw a call for donation spreading out almost all the groups of vietnamese scientists with the tire donation to ictp with the hope to relive the negative impact of covid pandemics the list of donors are public it's a long list including associate professors long-term visiting scientists postdocs diplomats students or visitors with many well-known names such as downtown sun dirac medalists joe field medalist i was more curious about ictp since then because i was wondering how an institution has been affecting the development of science in vietnam throughout many generations like that and why people once has been being at ictp has such sense of strong bonding to it and now i can confidently say that i know the reason vietnamese scientists at ictp is just a representative sample of the of the ictp community in any other countries and i do believe ictp community in any other countries also share that spirit ictp is really an ideal community where people can let in and reach out to others this kind of model is attached to everyone once you was at ictp you may see this by also looking back the 30 years and university these days people even spreading out all over the world once at ictp all connect and reconnect to class of diploma 2021 i firmly believe we can let in ictp whenever we are in need and that's our honor and our responsibility to be the ambassadors of building the community stronger and stronger thank you thank you so much again anybody else who wants to speak from condense madam then assistant physics good afternoon everyone it is an honor to be here at our graduation and celebrating the 30th anniversary of the diploma program it is weird to be here in front of all of my colleagues and authorities for the first time after a year of being here and almost the last year of our diploma i still remember the first time that we get out of the galeo guesthouse and start walking around looking for the cafeteria and how we start meeting each other that same day we have to go to the postal office to get the permit of stay which was our first task and it was tricky because of the language a new city a different culture we get lost in the bus and having no clue who was the sportel amigo still in the end we managed to discover how it was how it was working as a team this year was challenging for us for all of us but i'm glad that that we spend it together i'm always going to be grateful to all of you because no matter how different we are or think you always had a smile on your face and give some words of motivation thank you the ictp for taking the challenge that means having the diploma this year we know how difficult it was trying to make all the activities trying to be as usual as they can be given the situation the circumstances well um someone said in your oloyola sense say it's once when you get it when you get the excellence you must share it and i think that's the spirit of the center and what they try to share with all of us and with the word i want to thank all our all our teachers because having online classes is not an easy task in every lesson we need we notice the hard work that you put on into it and we really appreciate that you always try harder to make us be involucrate in the different subjects and it really works but more importantly i want to thank all my classmates all of you have been wonderful and i'm really going to miss you i will never forget our reunions and parties and how we how we reunion to work together for a study for exam on make or making the assignments i'm looking for i'm looking for the moment that we all made me together and i'm pretty sure all of you are going to have a bright future finally i want to share some words a phrase from a mexican composer Juan Gabriel which is in spanish la vida nos da la oportunidad de superarnos y si llegamos a ser grandes entonces nunca moriremos which literally translate to life give us the opportunity to improve ourselves and if we become great then we will never die so let's work very hard so that our work life forever thank you somebody else from earth system physics or mathematics who is going to say something other volunteers well many people are connected by zoom maybe somebody wants to speak by zoom if so please unmute your microphone harpoon can you hear me yes we can please yeah so it was great to be a part of this ictp diploma program and basically in my first first first term of this diploma program i had to attend this program from my home because there was some cobit restriction and i came in at ictp in january this year and i should say like the first first four or five months continue this program from home it was totally different when i came to ictp because the environment of ictp was really great to like to be with the professors and my wonderful classmates and also the phd students postdocs to have lunch with them to talk about physics and also for example because all the diploma students we have been at the adiote cookies house it actually helped me help us to have a wonderful bonding for example we went to dinner together and after the dinner we used to play ping pong for for an hour maybe sometimes and it was great actually and i mostly miss the people i i met there at ictp and it was a wonderful one year and thank you for being such a such a nice community i hope to see you again in future sometime and thank you very much thank you arcon i would like to give a floor to students from quantitative life science who is going to speak kerel good afternoon everyone and for those connected in zoom to the families and friends of my colleagues good morning or good evening whatever is the time there so my speech is a little bit different because i would just want to express my gratitude and share not only my experience but my colleagues also from qls so i'm very happy to nervous but happy to be here today to to say our thanks first of all we want to thank ictp for giving us this wonderful opportunity uh some people uh when i was traveling here some people would tell me uh are you crazy why are you moving to a country uh in a foreign country in this time for for some it would be a crazy idea but for each of each one of us it is a risk that we were willing to take because we want this opportunity to to to grow or to to learn more and to advance our studies in science so thank you very much ictp that despite all the challenges you managed to bring us all here or most of us here thank you also for the wonderful um provision for us for uh for doing your best also to to make our life more manageable in this pandemic so i wouldn't imagine how i would study in a foreign country if if i don't have an ictp family so thank you for providing us a family far away from home uh thank you we won't like also to thank our director for uh sometimes checking up on us and asking us what we need during our zoom meetings we want to take thank also our secretary at Miss Sandra and Miss Patricia thank you very much for always being able to uh respond to our request sometimes silly requests but thank you very much for your patience for all the staff from visa to medical office everyone in ictp was very uh helpful and we thank you so much and for our professors and tutors they are here i'm so happy that you are all here today almost uh thank you so much for uh imparting us not just out your knowledge in in quantitative life sciences but also your passion in science and in doing research uh it wasn't uh the normal setup but i i i really think that you really did the great job to prepare the lessons to to record the lectures in advance uh and it was very helpful for us uh how you have provided us a lot of opportunities to to learn in different ways uh through the for example through the recorded lectures and then we had a question and answer it was very helpful for us to to give us time to think to give us time to to process the things that you taught us and for us to really critically think it was it was a different experience from mine because we usually sit in the classroom and just listen and i before i came here i barely asked questions from my professors and i just sometimes i'm just so shy to to ask questions but here during our lessons uh it it pushed uh the way they taught us it pushes me to to think more and to really ask if i didn't understand something so thank you very much for your all your effort it's super great and thank you also for our families who are supporting uh from all over the world hello to everyone thank you for for your support for sending us here with your love also and i i can imagine how how difficult it is for for them also for you also for us to be away from you and i we would like to thank you for your patience for supporting our dreams and our aspirations in our pursuit in science and to my fellow diploma students thank you very much for everything so i just i didn't just gain colleagues during this day but we have made friends and family so i think all of you as a part of my family now thank you very much and uh as i as i am i always joke to some of you or one day if i if i work in a university in the philippines i will i should know your research and i will invite you to speak in my university because that would be a great inspiration for for for the philippine youth also so i hope you would grant my request in the future so thank you very much for for supporting each other thank you for saying hi even the simple act of saying hi is is is is so warm in our hearts because we have been staying a lot in our rooms but whenever we go out we we joyfully say hi to each other and to my creveless family thank you for all our ups and downs we are we are always there for each other trying to help each other in all our struggles not just that but in in our learning in our in our in our courses i really think that i have you as my colleagues because um we have always this healthy conversation not healthy sometimes we argue but it's a good argument because it pushes us more to think if what we're telling our ideas are right or wrong so thank you for for for learning for being for for for being in this learning journey together okay so just to share also my colleagues um experience i asked them one word so that you'll also learn one word from our native language to uh to describe somehow not not fully describe but somehow describe a part of our experience here in ictp so first one i i apologize if my pronunciation is wrong okay first one is zabardast which means fantastic from urdu my colleague says i entered the program to continue my studies to learn more skills but i ended up learning the true essence of research which is collaboration and i will be learning as a better version of my i will be living as a better version of myself with skills that will help me in the future and with that i hope will be lifelong friendships a qls family a second word is cinco estrellas from spanish which means five star she said that this is what you usually say when you really like something and your rating is five stars so her her rating of her ictp experience here is five stars and uh another spanish word is calido which means warm in spanish so i i think she explained it to be having the warmth uh as a family that ictp provides all the professors all the staff and the colleagues uh third spanish word we have three spanish speakers in our group is cooperation or in english it means cooperation so he said it was it was a good experience to have a cooperative learning in all our courses um another word in french uh la la resonement sorry it means the reasoning he said that the learning the ways to approach a problem is more important than achieving the result so we have been in in in our problem says we have been challenged to approach the problems in different ways and uh in persian we have uh kelly cop which means very good so is so so we hear this a lot from our professors and we really feel so happy when we when we hear this and at the same time it's a very good experience for us very good program and very good very good a nice collection of very interesting topics that we learned in a short time in arabic this is so difficult la air which means in english great so it's a great experience for us and our professor also always say this uh to us and yeah this comments from our professor is is is a good motivation for us to continue to really push to learn more and their feedbacks are very good they help us a lot to improve for for for all the things that we lack before they give um constructive criticisms to really improve us not just in science but also our attitude and how we present and how we write things uh in filipino uh is the word makabuluhan which means uh significant or insightful it says here the diploma program has been very insightful we just didn't learn the courses as if in a book but also the professors have given us so many creative insights on why studying such topics is very important also the hardships in this year the challenges that it uh it made us reflect that science still progress despite the difficulty and in general we in our life should continue as well and the last story from me is paglago which means growth so as we have grown so much in in many aspects for this year we think our professors we think the ictp community but we also hope that this will jump start our of this will jump start our full growth in our future careers as we promote promote scientific scientific excellence in our home countries or wherever uh our future leads us thank you very much and lastly i want to thank my family the philippines they are watching and thank you to everyone who is in here and last of all i would like to bring back all the glory to god our creator thank you girl so we also have our distinguished guests um alumni former stp students connected by zoom maybe somebody wants to say something to us if so please unmute your microphone maybe there is somebody from audience who wants to say something if not hi sorry yes this is gbfall uh i did the diploma in uh 2000 2001 and i wanted to to thank all the organizers of this great celebration for having this event this reunion which has been a wonderful reunion a lot of reconnections and uh thank ictp for everything they're doing for the whole for the whole world uh just as i wrote in the chat yesterday ictp made a big impact in the world and has changed the world or has contributed in changing the world through educating and promoting research and through bringing people together and uh making the brainstorming even more more diverse just like uh to quote uh james gates to quote abu salam through uh dr james gates uh this is a kind of a lot of DNA coming together to bring something like jazz into the into the into the not only physics but into the the sciences so i wanted to take that opportunity to thank ictp for everything they are doing and they continue to do and also to congratulate the new diploma students and tell them uh the the sky is the limit and they have uh they have uh they have the word they can change the word they can contribute to change the word just like ictp's mission change the world thank you for this event and thank you for these three three wonderful days thank you so much dr paul um thank you uh so maybe paul i will say a few words about uh oh atish you go ahead i just want to say a couple of words afterwards no i just wanted to just wanted to congratulate you all of you again i think it's uh it's it's has been a very uh nice ceremony for the last two days and today we have as you know uh as a commencement speech a lecture by the 2020 physics Nobel laureate andria gaze we all look forward to it and i hope i'm not sure you will be around and then we get some time to have a party a little bit on the terrace one thing i want to note note is that this year we are particularly happy because about 47 percent of the students are women so this is perhaps first time in the history of ictp that we have reached almost 50 percent gender balance which in the hard sciences i think like physics is an achievement so congratulations to all of you thank you okay so we now take a break so there is a coffee break i think so please come back so we reconvene for the program at 4 15 and then we have the commencement speech by professor andragets at five so please come back to the room thank you and congratulations