During summer 2007, I went to Italy for attending “Conference on Quantum Phenomena In Confined Dimension” held by International Centre For Theoritical Physics (ICTP) for two weeks. ICTP is one of the world’s foremost centres for scientific training and research. It is especially noted for helping scientist from the developing world. Several well-known scientists such as Prof. S. Tarucha from Tokyo University, Prof. Philip Kim from Columbia University came as invited speaker. Prof. Tarucha, for instant, gave a lecture about his recent research namely Kondo Effect In Quantum Dot while Prof. Philip Kim presented his current research about Electric Transport In Graphitic Carbon Material. The number of participant totally was 89 persons, including 4 persons as the steering committees. The participant mainly come from European and Asian country. Actually, it was the first time I went abroad and it was my pleasure to attend such scientific occasion altough as listener participant and I had to confess that I didn’t understand very well what the speaker talked about. Dr. John Peter and Dr. Vincent said to me, when we walked to the main building together, that I was too “young” to attend this conference since it was arranged for post-graduate student and experienced-scientist. However, it is good for me to know and interact with scientific community earlier since undergraduate level.
During the stay I met two Indonesian persons there (Gee…I was very happy since I could speak Indonesian with them), Mas Ryan (graduate student of Trieste University) and Ibu Pudji (the visiting researcher at the centre). They gave me a lot of advice concerning with my future study and they were pleased I came to the centre earlier. I still remember when we were taking dinner at Adriatico Guest House and talking much about Indonesia and physics lecturer at ITB, we talked much about Dr. Erwin Sucipto at that time and suddenly, the chinese person came to us and asked Ibu Pudji “what are you talking about” and she answered “We are talking with Indonesian languange” [we were laugh at that moment afterward].
I went to the downtown of Trieste almost everyday in the afternoon (indeed after the program was over), what a beautiful scienery and sculpture!
After “farewell party”, I and Gugu, my pal from Lisbon, went to unveiled city venice (see: Journey to Unveiled City Venice). It took two hours from Trieste Centrale to Venice by train. And a day before going to venice, I went to visit Grotta Gigante which is the giant Glatsier on earth [it was awesome].
