 Nobel laureate in 1964 and then it was always dedicated to combine research with the mission of building science and capacity building in the developing world. We are under a tripartite, so we are under the Italian government UNESCO and EIA. This means that our funds comes from these three sources. What we do as I already mentioned we do research, education and outreach and as you see by chance we are here the picture of our new director that just started this week as you know so it's a very good picture to show it again. What we which kind of research we do I think we are almost the only one UNESCO category one institute that really does research under the UNESCO umbrella. We do research in high-energy condensed matter mathematics applied to earth system physics where I come from and quantitative life science. We have several Nobel laureate connections in ICTP so there are several research at the CTP that has contributed to five Nobel Prize and we divided our activity in all this and I will be more specific later. So we try to support scientists in all stage of their career. So the red one below are the program that are stable in ICTP so the program that we have here so people that are working here, the Chayan one are the one that we run here in collaboration with our partner institute and with our with our with other institute all around the world. Let's start with the degree program. We do have a several degree program PhD in several of our specialty in collaboration with the University, with the UNESCO and with other university around Italy and Europe because we need another institute to be able to grant the PhD because we are we cannot under the UNESCO umbrella. We are not entitled to do this. Then we have a very successful program that is a postgraduate diploma program so what we do since 1991 we managed to bring over thousand diploma student and 70% of these managed to get PhD or they are working towards a PhD. What does this program does? We pick up 10 students for each of the research area we have and we try to help them to get to the market of the PhD for the Western country and for the for Europe and the Western for the other Western country and we do this because we realize that for them is very tough coming from a developing country to access the PhD market so it's one year intensive program in that we call master so they get a little bit of everything in their field and this is like the breakdown in the several field we have per year. You see that some program like condensed matter energy have been always there and also mathematics then we started the system physics we started in 2005 because we are a younger section and now this year also the other section started. Then this is not the only program we have but it's one of the most successful one but then we have another program that allow us really to share and collaborate with the developing country. This is called the step program and it's basically is a co-supervising program so we co-supervise a student or a role in a PhD program in our or his own country and then we allow the student to to spend some time here in STP for the world duration of the PhD and we kosher the supervision and the responsibility. This is quite successful program as well and is mostly sponsored by the the atomic energy agency Indiana but we also are prone to encourage brain grain so we try to also work a lot in conference and workshop so this is why we organize more than 60 conference and workshop like this every year. We have been we have been able to welcome up to 5000 scientists from 145 nation each year and and attract this number of scientists true hosted activity. If you want like a map displacement of where all the scientists come from this is the map in a glance since 1970 but we also have more applied opportunity for applied physics like for example laboratory opportunity. We have agreement with the Italian research laboratory in the nearby like Slovenia and the Austria in which we try to enroll this student working with us in a program that is called trail so we are able to offer them a fellowship and to spend some time they need in the lab because maybe for their research they need a specific lab that is not available in their country and so we look for that in a they look for that and we help them to find what they need and they are another scheme that is very successful it's the associate scheme so we have the opportunity to work with our associate so there are there is a number of associate scheme so you have the senior the young one and the regular one by which the scientists working in developing country can apply and can ask to be our official associate so they are entitled to visit ICTP in a time span of six year and they can come every time not longer than three months and during this collaboration we can share we can work together we can do research together but we hope that once they go back they kind of cultivate their own garden and try to be a source for us for students and for other future associates this this is something that is very successful and is dedicated to more senior people but also we have a tradition of long tradition of capacity building in developing country and in fact we do have an office of external activity that just take care of those things like how to collaborate with the with the Institute abroad we have part an Institute one in Brazil one in China one in Mexico and one in Rwanda so they are really ICTP little clone around the words but they they try to repeat I mean what we do here in their own country then we have a program that is called physics without frontier that goes really to bring the basic physics knowledge to some university that require and then we have also a science team semination unit now summarizing this only in a glance this is the map and this is all the place where you see to be its present here with an affiliate center with the network hub scientific workshop school and the partner institute South America Africa China and Central America we do also have some more senior program like the salam distinguished lecture where we host every year like a noble laureate or something like that to give us for a week lecture on a on a topic of relevance and then also we have some success story where our for example post post graduate diploma student or associates made a career also thanks to ICTP how does this translate for women numbers so thanks to all this program we managed to have 18,000 visit from 170 country including 27 last developing least developed country 22% of these are women and 51% are from developing country this number is growing because we had 25% in 2018 and 20 25% in the last five years if we want to look again in a glance which are the top 10 countries that contributing women scientists to a CTP this is the special displacement and again if we want to break down this per region and per research area this is the breakdown so you see this there is a higher number in applied physics in almost all the nation and that is followed by the her system physics and then he goes down when you go to the more theoretical field now going back to all the program I mentioned so the step the post graduate the tree and the associate this is the background per country per continent and and this is what I want to highlight the red number is the percentage of women as you can notice in this summary as we know already the famous the famous sister program problem in the youngest in the youngest stage of the career so for step and postgraduate we have usually the highest percentage but then we when we go to the associate program that is more for senior scientists we start to see that the number is going down also for our statistics so we are perfectly in line with the word statistic what what else we have also paying attention to awards so these are all the awards given to women related to the ICTP so we have several ICTP price direct medal Ramanujan and ICO ICTP awards and is always with a particular attention to women to try to follow the Petra suggestion like give awards to women and we are trying to do this and then we also have to we want to increase the number the visibility of women for this colloquium like we did yesterday before yesterday with this colloquium and we always try to search for very excellent and prominent women what else we do we do have we have started a website so if you go on the ICTP website there is always a web page dedicated to women in science in which you find the the latest the latest news what is going on related to women which are the activity which are the statistic which are the useful information links and pointing to other activity around and then last not least we have a little summary of what has been done since 2013 in a CTP because we started to have a kind of a gender balance committee so we started so to have a website by another workshop for women in physics that Shobana will talk to you about that is very successful we celebrate the international events like for example the International Day of Women and Girls we have a ministry person to take care of issue of family coming with children and we also have a small budget to support now this and to encourage people family with children and women but also men to come around we have get ready we got ready family rooms to to be able to welcome family with children there is a UNESCO gender focal point that the moment is me but I mean it can change and also one important thing that is an Britain policy to look at gender balance in whatever we do so if we do the selection of diploma PhD student associate we always look at the gender balance if we organize a conference we try to have at least one woman speaker among the invited speaker if possible and in every in every other activity we do we try to put a special a special weight on the gender balance this is because our like going director was very keen on this so it was always very supportive of this initiative and hopefully we will keep doing this with the new director that we know that is really very very concerned about this issue with this I thank you and I give the word to Tonya that will can you hear me yeah thank you so much Erica for giving me some time just to talk about the organization for women in science for the developing world I don't have much time but you can catch me in the coffee break and also come upstairs on the seventh floor if you need any more information about anything we were also more or less founded by the same founder Abdul Salam it was his idea to host a conference here 1987 because he realized that there weren't enough women in science so invited lots of women scientists to come here they created a working group from that conference and that was the beginning of us we are now growing at a very rapid rate I'm just going to take you through the main programs that we do so that you have an idea I can't go into many details and I've tried to focus on the things that I think are most relevant to you here just briefly you've all seen this diagram I'm sure scissors diagram totally reflects for most countries the situation for women coming into universities so more women tend to come in undergraduate level as they go through their careers they tend to drop off this is often described as the pipeline very often described as the leaky pipeline for women and there are kind of pressure points where women will drop out and it's really hosts job to identify those places try and find very good practices for encouraging women from specific least developed and technologically lagging countries so the poorest countries in the world in the belief that science can really provide solutions to the main challenges that those countries face and that if women as many women as possible are included in designing and implementing those challenges the better the results will be so the premise is the more women in science the better the science very important it's not just about increasing numbers it's about improving the science and we we do this in these four different main areas the one I'm going to focus on is networking because again it's most relevant to all of you here second just to let you know and please come and find us up on the seventh floor afterwards to get more information to let you know that we have a wonderful PhD and early career fellowship programs we do many career development training programs to and we have prizes the PhD fellowship program briefly is funded by Sweden it focus on women from 66 countries the idea is to encourage mobility so by definition women in the poorest countries do not have enough resources they need to leave their countries to do their PhDs we provide that opportunity we also give the possibility of a sandwich program which means that they're based at their home institute and they can go up to three visits of at least six months each visit just to give you an idea what the disciplines are from we don't we don't have any requirements for discipline except it's in stem all in stem and the women choose where they want to go and study they must go and study in another developing country it's a south to south program this has been proven to assist the counteract brain drain for many different reasons which I can't go into now but here you can see I don't know how this compares with all of your figures but it's not such a bad number for example 9% here of all of our women in are in physics chemical science is 14% that's quite a good number I think we always have most of our applications and awards in agricultural sciences not surprisingly over 30% engineering sciences there 18% computing only 5% astronomy space and earth sciences 4% you may notice that there is no maths at all this year sorry the yellow is biological systems and organisms and it's 9% but we also have yeah that's very low this year usually we have much higher numbers in in biology but mathematics is definitely definitely an issue for us and we're trying to work with ICTP and the math department at ICTP and with the the International Mathematics Union to try and work out exactly what's going on there and what we find is that most of the women who apply in maths are really working in mathematical modelling and that tends to be interdisciplinary and and what what what our ICTP scientists are very disappointed is not to find any what they call real mathematicians like pure mathematicians and again that's another argument about the basic sciences and their relevance to development as well and you'll find very interesting arguments made by ICTP about that and by nationality just to give you an idea of what how it looks this year most of our applicants come from Africa at least 50% and most of them will go to institutes in South Africa which has excellent institutes in Asia for example we get a lot of applications from Bangladesh and Myanmar and they will tend to go and study in Malaysia we have very few applications from Arab countries we only have three eligible countries but Sudan has exceptional women scientists particularly for whatever reason and I would love you to do some research on this in physics don't know why but extremely good women scientists from Sudan in physics we can't give all of the awards we want to give to them you can have a look at this more closely you'll have a copy you can see the eligible countries but you can see that we only have very few in the Arab region Djibouti Palestine only added last year Sudan Syrian Arab Republic only added last year Yemen we also have very good record surprisingly good record with Yemeni graduates over 260 fellows have graduated I think that number has now gone up to 270 because we just managed to get on board some of our older PhD fellows and we have a newsletter that comes out four times a year with lots of stories of success stories and this is a young woman from Bhutan who went to study in India and she's working on issues of climate change hydropower development and water research management on ecology and the environment in Bhutan just to give you an idea of her working environment I thought as a lovely picture just she's going out in the field these are the challenges that women face she has to find ways of communicating and working with a group of male farmers in the countryside that's quite typical this is a brand new fellowship program and it's very prestigious it's funded by Canada the International Development Research Center this again was a joint kind of proposal between IDRC and OST where we identified what's really needed so a big problem is for women who have their PhDs who by definition as we said before have had to leave their countries to get the expertise but they do want to go home they do return home when they get home no resources no contacts lots of teaching will coincide with their family requirements they're back where they started in some ways and that's a crucial moment where they will drop out of that pipeline so we've created this amazing fellowship high-level fellowship to allow women to stay at home in these under-resourced countries to build up laboratories build up equipment to invite international scholars to come and talk for them to go and visit other countries if they need to they get it's a very flexible grant if they need to spend a lot of that money on childcare assistance they can do that the important thing is that they are enabling themselves to continue with their research at a high level and maintain that so crucial network we've had our second cohort of 20 fellows just selected and we're doing a workshop in Tanzania in two weeks time there's a big focus on linking with industry which was a requirement of the Canadian funding to try and make that research sustainable to try and encourage researchers to find ways of supporting their research afterwards again this is not easy to do many researchers don't know how to do transference to industry and we are exploring this and running new training programs around this and I'd love to talk to anybody who has some ideas about how we might do that more effectively sorry I'm going to run through this this is our wonderful awards program the impact of our awards program just to say briefly we have five awards each year this young woman from Bolivia received her award at during the American Association for Science conference where there are thousands of delegates and they give a presentation on their research we visited the embassy Bolivian Embassy in Washington with her as a consequence as she was on the front page of the Bolivian newspaper the Prime Minister of Bolivia Eva Morales invited her to come and visit him and as a direct consequence they will now be the first International Day of Women in Science in Bolivia on February next year so this is what I think you mostly be interested in because it's most relevant to all of you we have this membership program now the great thing about the membership program is it's not a selection it's not an elite organization this is any woman from developing world who has at least a postgraduate degree in a science subject including social science you can go on our website you can click become a member and you you need to just you need to have ready your PhD certificate or your master's certificate to upload and and they will come into our into our office upstairs and it will get approved if everything is is correct in terms of it's just about eligibility we have over 8,800 members and you can see in all of these different countries and you can go on our website and you can see for each country who the members are and what they're what their discipline is if there are more than 20 members in any country they can set up a national chapter and I think I am gonna have to finish it but you can catch me during the coffee break and also Fiona Fiona can you stand up Fiona works in the office upstairs on specifically on the membership and national chapters and she would love to talk to any of you who are interested thank you Erica and Tanya thank you so much and there's a lot of information I think if you wish to engage please do so over coffee and it's a delight to tell you a little more about Shobana Narasimhan who you have been talking to probably