ICTP Welcomes Postgrad Students

Encouraging the latest group of ICTP's Postgraduate Diploma Programme students to mix learning with fun, Centre Director Fernando Quevedo officially welcomed a class of 53 young scientists from 28 developing countries to ICTP's intensive, one-year study course.

"We are honoured that you are here with us and hope that you will remain a part of our community for a long time to come," said Quevedo in his address to the group.  He added, "This is an intense course, but it is also an opportunity for people from different cultures to get to know each other. Establishing these relationships and friendships is an important part of your career."

For more than 20 years, ICTP's Postgraduate Diploma Programme has enabled students coming from developing countries, where opportunities to learn from active researchers are rare or non-existent, to interact with and learn from some of the best minds in the fields of physics and mathematics. Areas of instruction include high-energy physics, condensed matter physics, mathematics, and Earth system physics.

Applications for the Programme starting in 2012 are due by the end of 2011; for more details, visit the Postgraduate Diploma Programme website.