Call for Mentors – ICTP PWF Bangladesh Internship Program

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Dear colleague,

I hope this message finds you well! We are writing to you from ICTP 
Physics Without Frontiers Bangladesh to ask if you would be interested 
in an initiative that is now in its second year.
In Bangladesh we find ourselves with a lot of extremely talented and 
motivated students who would benefit from mentorship and the opportunity 
to work on advanced topics. Last year we started the *ICTP PWF 
Bangladesh Internship Program:* the idea is to match advanced 
undergraduate or Masters students to mentors living abroad and connected 
to the scientific community (e.g. you 😊 ) who supervised them in a 
small project over the summer. Last year was a great success, with ~45 
students successfully completing projects with mentors all across the 
world.
The project can vary in scope and difficulty depending on the interests 
of the student and supervisor: it can be entirely a reading project, or 
perhaps doing numerical simulations of a system of interest, or perhaps 
even doing a novel theoretical calculation of interest. If things go 
very well they might lead to original research and maybe a publication; 
but we actually expect that most projects will not end in this, but 
rather in creating motivation for the student, giving them a concrete 
goal and some research experience, and building connections to actively 
practicing scientists.
 From the side of the mentor, we would hope for an online meeting 
roughly every two weeks (or every week if you like) to help guide the 
student, for a total project length of roughly three months (i.e. the 
summer). All timelines are flexible.
If you’re interested, please fill out this form:

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ICTP PWF: Physics for Bangladesh Summer Internship Form for mentors 
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by the *5th of June*. This doesn’t commit you to anything at all: once 
students also register we will then allow students and mentors to take 
part in a process of mutual selection. We warmly encourage postdoctoral 
researchers and senior PhD students to participate as mentors.

*Also please forward this opportunity to any colleagues who you think 
might be interested in mentoring a student! *We would like to enlarge 
this program and include as many enthusiastic students as possible. **
I very much hope that you’re interested! Let me know if you have any 
questions about this.
Best,
Nabil Iqbal
  (on behalf of the organizing committee for the PWF Bangladesh 
Internship Program)
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