 Okay, so I'm here with Adel Gadir, who's a postdoc at ICDP and just recently came back from an activity in Ghana. So maybe you could start with a little bit of a background of how you came to mathematics and you ended up here at ICDP. So I'm from Sudan, but I lived quite a lot of my life in the United Arab Emirates and then most of my mathematical education was done in the UK. And yeah, I was lucky enough to sort of come to the ICDP for a postdoc. I mean, it happened in a really strange fashion. I mean, I came through Barbara Fantecki told me about ICDP at the conference once and then she said, yeah, after you finish, you have to apply to the ICDP for a postdoc. Oh, I see, I didn't know that. I'll put it for her. So that's how I came to the ICDP. And they've been going through UK accounts for your accent. That's very true. And the mathematics, I mean, I was always at school until very late. I didn't know it was an option to even study mathematics further. I mean, I come from a background where it's engineering versus medicine. That's the choice you make. But I had a very good maths teacher and that was a big influence back in the UAE. And then I read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time and I was like, oh, some of it. I mean, I've done it. One of the few people that read it in the end. No, no, no, I didn't finish it. But then I was like, yeah, I might want to do this. I did maths and physics at university. And then it was... University in... In Bath. No, in Bath. I really had to graduate in the UK. And then it was clear to me that maths is what I wanted to do. And yeah, I'm so happy. It's such an honour to be able to do this for a living. And you're now going to Sydney. Yes, I moved to the University of New South Wales in Sydney for a postdoc. Yes, it's... So you're just checking all continents? Yes, yes. Yeah, I think I guess I did a postdoc in Korea before being in Korea. Oh, that's true. Korea as well. Yeah, let's see here. One by one. That's one take. And so tell us about this activity in Ghana, which partly you were together with your colleague Uli Kremer. Kremer. The main sort of instigators and organisers. So I know Uli Kremer through my time in Glasgow during my PhD there. And he was a freshly appointed lecturer there when I was doing my PhD. And the story of how this came about is completely ridiculous for me because it was just a coincidence. Uli came to Trieste to... I thought for a while. No, to PhD defence in CISA. And then he wrote to me, he was like, how do you want to go for a pizza? And we started speaking. And he was telling me about how he teaches at Ames once every year for the first three weeks. And I was like, oh, great. You should come meet Fernando because we're also interested in things of that form. And from that meeting, two of his students came to the diploma programme. Two students from Ghana. From Ghana, yes. From Ames. From Ghana. Came to the PhD. To Angela. To Angela. Prosper, yes. And Angela went on to do a PhD with him, in fact. And you suggested that we should maybe, if there's a possibility of organising something. We applied for the money and we got the money and with Ames we started this project. So it was just a complete coincidence that Uli happens to be in Trieste. We happened to go for a pizza and we happened to so and so on. Okay, I'm glad to know that. Yes, yes. And so this was in homological algebra. Yes. So we tried to find a broad sort of title. And it's called Homological Methods in Algebra and Geometry. And it was, yeah. I think every talk had some homological methods and we had three main streams of talks. The first was in Kovanov homology. So, not homology and its relation to representation theory. And the second one was in cluster algebras. Again, very sort of booming area in representation theory. And the third one was in non-commutative algebraic geometry. So pretty modern cutting edge topics. And very homological, very algebraic geometry. So it was very nice. And luckily we had Aaron Lauda from University of Southern California come give a talk. And his talk just was an overview talk. And it made sense of the fact that we had these three streams in. So combined all of them in one talk and how they're all related and why people care. And you were telling me about 40-something participants. 40-something participants. Mostly from Africa. Mostly from Africa. I think we had 15 speakers and lectures and the rest were from Africa. Quite a lot from Ghana. I mean, this was the most represented African country. This was in Ghana. It was in Ghana. Two from Burkina Faso, Burundi, Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, and Senegal, South Africa. It was very... It was interesting to see people from different countries in Africa meeting. Yes, yes. And part of the reason why we wanted to do this was that algebra and algebraic geometry were underrepresented in Africa. I mean, there are many sort of strong researches in Africa. But they tend to be more on the analysis side maybe or something of that form. And there's not much algebra and geometry going on. And we wanted to help the people who were there to sort of flourish a little bit. And maybe encourage students to pursue the area. So the students' backgrounds was mostly not in algebra? Mostly not in algebra. Or some of the younger ones did these mathes and aims and had some little background that were taught by either Uli or Brent at some point. So they had a little background. But the point was to expose them to what the cutting edge is and to show them that there's something if they wanted to pursue. And so overall the experience was... The experience was very, very pleasant. Obviously, it was like two weeks of being on, which is hard. Being an organizer, the first time for me to do such a thing, you have to be alert all the time. Make sure anything that goes wrong, you have to... All the practical matters as well as the scientific ones. Exactly, exactly. So we had... Unfortunately, one of the speakers fell ill. One of the letter speakers fell ill in the last weekend. And so we had to somehow cover his lecture course. And thankfully, the people were great. The speakers of the second week filled in. One of his master's students filled in. And so I'm very grateful for the people who are there. You were saying as well that many... Most of the non-Africans came with their own funds? Yes, yes. I mean, I think it's half the participants... Half the speakers, sorry. Just maybe that's an exaggeration. Just a little less than half were on their own grants. And they were so wanting to help. I mean, they felt the need to speak to the students and share what they had. Including someone who came from Japan. Including somebody who came from Japan. They had their own funds. From the UK we had three or four people come with their own funds. From California somebody paid half of this flight. And so it was really nice. It was a very pleasant experience. So it reminds you that the smart community is a very pleasant place to be in. I mean, people really want to help and very humble and always wanted to give something. Fantastic, very good. Thank you very much. Thank you. Until next time. Thank you.