well it gives me a very great pleasure
to welcome you here today for the RMIT
three minute thesis competition finals
but before we get our three minute
thesis business underway we we're in the
habit at RMIT of paying respect and
acknowledgement to the traditional
owners of the country on which we do our
business and so it's my honor to
acknowledge the Woi wurrung and
Boon Wurrung language groups of the Wurundjeri
people of the Eastern Kulin
nations. These are the traditional owners
of this land on which the University
conducts its business and all members of
the university community recognize
Elders past, present and emerging. So for
those of you..um.. I have to say I've had a
little talk with some of the judges and
I've got some real three-minute thesis
fans and junkies on the judging panel so
I'll talk a little bit more about that
later but but some of you may not have
been to a three minute thesis event
before so I'll just give you a little
bit of a background. The three minute
thesis competition has been running now
for probably around a decade or a decade
and a half, initiated by some bright
spark at the University of Queensland
recognising that excellent research
skills are obviously very important for our
research students but equally important
excellent communication skills. You can
have the greatest research idea or the
greatest research project in the world
but unless you can compellingly tell the
story of that research to someone who
will A- publish it,  or B- fund you to do it,
your research isn't going to go very far
so skills in communication, skills in
speaking to a range of audiences
including generalist audiences who may not
have all the technical or specialist
jargon are absolutely vital tools in trade
for researchers,  and I think at this
showcase event we... I like to think we... we
display just what terrific researchers
our HDR candidates at RMIT are, but also
what outstanding research communicators
they are as well. In fact I sometimes
think when I listen to these students
speaking so economically and succinctly
about their research in three minutes
using one slide, that every member of the
university executive should put
themselves through this training. You've
got an important message, get it out in
three minutes and on one slide because
that's what these students do. I realize
I actually haven't introduced myself my
name is Denise Cuthbert and I'm the
Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor for
Research Training and Development. So
that's a little bit of background for
the three minute thesis competition, now
it's my very great pleasure to introduce
our judges and I'll ask each judge to
stand as I introduce introduce them and
tell you a little bit about their
background. So first off we've got Josh
Gordon who's the Economics and Finance
editor for RMIT ABC fact-check. Josh has
spent 17 years reporting on economics
and politics in Canberra and Melbourne.
He has an honours degree in economics
and worked in the banking world and the
federal bureaucracy before turning to
journalism. He worked with Fairfax in
2000 in Canberra as The Age's Economic
Correspondent and then moved to the
Sunday Age as the federal political
editor. His journey  - his career journey -
took several more twists and turns along
the way. Josh pulled up one...four Melbourne
Press Club quill Awards so he does know
a little bit about communication,
including best columnist and best news
reporting... news reporting writing.
He retains an interest in economics and
politics and also in communication and
is eminently qualified to serve on the
panel today. Thanks so much
welcome Josh. Next I'd like to introduce
Claire Russell who's the Director of
Research Engagement and Business
Development here at RMIT. Claire is an
accredited international partnership
broker and leader in building
collaborations for industry, community,
researchers and government. She has a
strong track record in national
consortium creation and management.
Supporting strategic University industry
engagement, she is passionate about the
changing role of universities and the
value that university researchers can
deliver to the economy and to the
community. And I have to say Claire's got
some credentials in research
communication herself because she's
constantly pitching and... and with some
success
so please welcome Claire. It's now my
pleasure to introduce Mike Lansing who
is the self-confessed Three minute thesis
junkie. He's been to 12 competitions so
far this year and I think we'll have a
presence in more including the the
national finals because of course he
represents Unibank and Unibank is a
major sponsor, and we're very very
grateful to Unibank for their support
of this event. Mike is passionate about
ensuring that Unibank is the financial
institution of choice for the university
sector and he has substantial experience
across both mutual and listed banking
institutions having worked in senior
business development roles with AMP,
Bank West, the Australian Military Bank
formerly the Australian Defence
Credit Union and now of course with Unibank.
Mike is an alumnus of Sydney
University, graduating with an economics
degree. In his spare time he likes to
play a round of golf and spend time with
his two daughters.
Does that have to be on a golf course Mike? okay
welcome Mike and thanks very much for
giving of your time this afternoon. Our
next... our next panel member was the
runner-up at in the 2018 RMIT
three-minute thesis
her name is Wenyue Zou and she is
currently... Dr. Zou is currently a
postdoctoral research fellow at the Sir Ian
Potter nanobiosensing facility at RMIT.
She has a PhD in applied chemistry,
graduating last year under the
supervision of Professor Bansal and Ramanathan
Her research focus is on the
discovery of light active materials with
multiple applications to improve human
health and quality. She has been named
among the 10 top innovators under 35 by
MIT Technology Review in the
asia-pacific region.
Please make Dr. Zou welcome. Now our
final panelist but by no means least
eminent is Professor Jason Potts who's a
Professor of Economics here at RMIT. He
specializes in the economics of
innovation and new technologies. He's the
director of the blockchain innovation
hub and the first social science
research...which is the first social
science research institute on blockchain
in the world. I think that Jason has
engaged in some pretty skilled
communications to get the blockchain
innovation hub up and running. Jason and
his team are
pioneering new approaches in crypto
economics to help us better understand
the economic impact of blockchain
technology. His latest book is Innovation
Commons - the Origin of Economic
Growth, which is out with Oxford
University Press.
Please make Jason welcome.
I'm just going to loop back again with a
with a further vote of thanks to Unibank
for their generous sponsorship of
this event. The School of Graduate
Research and indeed other parts of RMIT
have had now several years association
with Mike and his team at Unibank and
it's it's simply no exaggeration to say
that Mike is committed to higher
education
deeply committed to women in higher
education and deeply committed to
research and he's a great partner and if
you're looking for a bank to do your
business you can go no further than Unibank.
There you go I'm giving you a plug
Mike. Alright I think we are now at the
point where we will begin our actual
competition. We have several finalists
today so what's going to actually happen
is that I will introduce each of the
finalists as they come up onto the stage.
Each finalist has three minutes in which
to make their presentation. Our judges
will be scoring and ranking the
finalists as they go and you should all
have on your seats ballot paper for the
people's vote and hopefully the
pencils have now been distributed so at
the end of this competition we will end
up with an RMIT finalist, an RMIT
runner-up and a People's Choice Award. So
I'm just going to talk to my people.
Are we all ready to go? okay. So our very
first finalist today is a candidate from
the College of Business, Emma Rae. She's
undertaking her PhD in the School of
Accounting and... please walk across and
make yourself comfortable
Emma, while I introduce you. Emma is a PhD
candidate in the School of Accounting
she is passionate about contributing to
progress on gender equality in organised
organizations and society. She's a board
director of WIRE which is the
Women's Information Referral Exchange
and the former chair of CPA Women's
Committee.
She teaches accounting and auditing. Her
research topic is reporting on gender
equality in the big four accounting
firms in Australia but the title of her
presentation this afternoon, which I
imagine is a component of that that
research, is Accounting for Gender
Transparency. So please make Emma welcome.
My first day working at an accounting
firm, I felt out of place. I noticed that
there were no female partners, and I
wondered why? A decade later as chair of
the Women's Committee of a large
professional accounting body, members
told me about the discrimination they
faced. Their experiences were common and
they were frustrated that there had been
so little progress on gender inequality
which is widespread in Australia. Top
accounting firms have stated the
business case. They say it's important,
that it's ethical. A McKinsey study has
shown that by advancing gender equality
we could add 12 trillion dollars to
global GDP by 2025. It's been suggested
that public reporting of progress will
help make the firms accountable and the
issues visible, and increase the
likelihood of positive change but more
needs to be done. In my research I was
curious to find out if Australia's top
accounting firms were actually walking
the talk and had transparent reporting
especially since advising clients on
gender issues and reporting is a key
source of income. I adopted a qualitative
research approach and analyzed documents
on the firm's websites and reports to
the government.
What I found is that gender equality
disclosures were poor quality. It was
difficult to assess performance and the
firm's often didn't follow recommended
reporting guidelines. The issues were not
visible which makes accountability
challenging. There were creative ways of
accounting, for example gender pay gap
calculations that excluded partners and
made the firms look fairer than what
they really were. The next stage of my
research will involve over 25 interviews
with those in government research and
reporting roles, and partners at the
accounting firms. I want their views on
how mandatory reporting could be
improved to be more transparent. So...
future forward, where young people
starting their careers can see female
role models in senior leadership
positions and not have to wonder where
all the women are. Where all people can
feel included, inspired, and know that
they belong. A world in which this
research is no longer necessary because
gender inequality is no longer an issue.
Thank you very much. Please now welcome
our second finalist who is Neng Zhang
from the School of Engineering in the
College of Science, Engineering and
Health. The title of Neng's presentation
is "Vibrations can be a killer". His
research is to investigate the effects
of physical vibrations on driver
drowsiness and its prevention. Eventually
an innovative active vibration system to
counteract vibration-induced drowsiness
will be developed. So over to you Neng.
Vibration can be a killer. Each year many
people die and more than 2,000 are
seriously injured in road accident in Australia because of the driver fatigue. Many
believe that such a fatigue is due to a
long drive without good rest, but it's
not just lack of sleep make people
driver drowsy my research has found
vibration transmitted through the car seet
can make drivers sleepy in just a few
minutes and it's not the size of
vibration but it's the frequency that
really matters. I and my teammate are
recruiting 15 volunteers to drive in a
simulator which replicates the
experience of driving on a highway for 60
minutes with exposure of normal road
vibration. By looking at the volunteers
heart rate, brain wave, eye movement and
driving behaviour I was able to get the
objective measure of how drowsy they are
feeling as a 60 minute test progressed.
The result was quite significant. Within
15 minutes of starting the vibration test
test the volunteers are showing signs of
drowsiness. Within 30 minutes the
drowsiness become so significant
requiring substantial effort to maintain
alertness and safe driving performance.
This effect was particularly obvious
when the vibration occurred at the rate
of four
to seven times per second. So it comes up
with the question that why such
vibration make drivers sleepy? well it
turns out that when we start going to
sleep our brain wave oscillate at four
to seven times per second. We believe
what is happening is drivers brainwave
become synchronized to the vibration and
putting them into the early stage of
sleep. So what is a good thing this
research can bring to us? Well although
the technology of the ruling vibration
there the transportation industry only
use it for the purpose of improving the
comfort, never for preventing drowsiness.
The exciting thing of this research is
I identified specific range of vibration
that cause drowsiness, so it can be used
as a new guideline for vehicle design to
simply remove or isolate this bad
vibration, and help keep driver more
alert. Not only that, if the vehicle can
be redesigned it could potentially save
hundreds of lives each year in Australia
and thousands worldwide. I believe that
my research can help for a safe
journey and safe journey is what
everybody's should have. Thank you very much.
I think anyone who's driven in a car
with a baby trying to get them to sleep
knows that there's there something in
that research because it does work. Our
third finalist is Nilmini Weerasinghe
from the School of Property Construction
and Project Management.
She's a doctoral candidate in that
school working under the supervision of
Dr. Rebecca Yang, Dr. Eric Too and Dr.
Tiendung Le. The topic of her research is
deployment of building integrated
photovoltaic a dynamic socio-technical
technological perspective and the
presentation today is "To make every
building a clean energy provider". So over
to you Nilmini
Do you know every every day buildings
are becoming responsible for climate
change? Buildings and the construction
sector has account for 40 percent of the
total carbon dioxide emissions globally.
Guys  - we need a change, we need a change.
Because we are... we need a... we need a
change. Of course we can do from one of
the easier and accessible energy source
that we all know - that's Solar. Solar...we
can integrate solar panels into a facade
like this and into our walls same as
building element. We call it building
integrated photovoltaics but I wonder why
but we are still at the back... we are
still at the back. There are only 2% of
PV...BIPV systems on only 2% of total PV
generation and in Australia they are on
less than 30 non-domestic buildings. So I
wonder why building professionals
reluctant to such multifunctional
technology? Then I realize it's not only
because of technical advancement but
climate but the quality, cost, everything
matters. So in my research I used to
understand them, so I used to understand
the house or technical elements elements
intro the system uptake so in my
research it's very complex process if
multiple stakeholders and technical
elements govern diverse decision choice
to ship system uptake so I simulate the
decision making process using 60 BIPV
projects in Australia... in Australia and
international countries. so I found
realistic information the results show
that the building owners have accept the
system because they want to have a...
under three criterias, because they want
to have a sustainability status, they
want to have an economic benefit, they want to have a structural value. So the now
the BIP projects are becoming economically viable and contributing majority of the
energy demand so it may be the right
time to accept the BIPV systems. Next in
mind I will guide stakeholders to
accelerate the BIPV penetration so we
can make every wall to a clean energy
generator. Thank you. Our fourth finalist
this afternoon is Charlene Trestrail
from the School of Science. Charlene is a
doctoral candidate under the supervisor...
supervision of Associate Professor Jeff
Shimeta and Professor Dayanthi Nugegoda. The topic of her
research is microplastic induced
changes to energy acquisition and
expenditure in marine...marine organisms.
The title of the presentation this
afternoon is "The microplastics
menace".  So please make Charlene welcome
Raise your hand if you brushed your
teeth this morning? Yeah, yeah, most of us
and you probably feel good about
brushing your teeth but would you still
feel good if you knew that brushing your
teeth has actually created the worst
pollution crisis this planet has ever
seen?
you see lurking inside your trip of
toothpaste a millions of tiny pieces of
plastic called micro plastics. But don't
let their tiny size fool you, these micro
plastics are a big menace because after
you flush them down the sink
microplastics
end up in the ocean and together
Australians throw 13 billion micro
plastics into the ocean every day.
That's enough plastic to cover the MCG.
These micro plastics are eaten by ocean
animals like fish and I wanted to know
how the health of those animals is
affected by having a belly full of
plastic. So in the lab I watched to see
how the cells in the stomach respond to
eating a meal of micro plastics, and what
I found was that micro plastics act like
a foreign invader, forcing the stomach
cells to produce a lot of defensive
enzymes. You can think of these enzymes
as tiny biological fighters that flooded
the stomach trying to find and
neutralize the microplastic threat. But
to make these defensive enzymes the
animals had to spend a lot of energy and
after a hard day of fighting the micro
plastics in their belly they just didn't
have any energy left over to reproduce
so they actually made fewer offspring.
Understanding how micro plastics affect
animal health is a powerful tool that
can help us manage the problem.My
results can help us predict how micro
plastics will shrink the population of
ocean animals like fish that we need for
food and if you're a little bit nervous
about
brushing your teeth tonight you'll be
glad to know that my results can benefit
human health as well because by showing
us what health affects to look for we
are now ready to check if microplastics
harm the human body. But the most
exciting part of my research is that by
now understanding the link between
microplastics and animal health we can
now design materials that don't cause
these negative effects, materials that
would be more environmentally
sustainable to use and that can help us
replace plastic in our lives and
eventually eliminate the microplastic
Menace. Finalist number five is Muhammad
Faisal from the School of Management in
the College of Business. Mohammed is a
doctoral candidate in that school and an
awardee of a joint scholarship from RMIT
University and the Higher Education
Commission in Pakistan. He's working
under the supervision of Professor
Pauline Stanton and dr. Michael Muchiri
and his research topic is "Transforming
Pakistan Hospitals: are high-performance
work systems and ethical leadership the
answer?" His topic... the title of his
presentation this afternoon is
"Transforming public hospitals". Please
welcome Mohammed
I am feeling unwell and I'm poor, my
doctor is in a public hospital. I wake up
at 4 a.m. in the morning to walk many
miles to join the long queue hoping that
I might be seen that day. The
appointments do not start until 8
o'clock and the waiting area is already
full. After 4 hours I finally see a nurse
and I'm given a token to get my blood
collected but I have to queue again to
get another token for an x-ray ,and
during the process I am verbally abused
and really annoyed to see people getting
fast-tracked because they've got contacts
amongst the staff. It is unethical. Finally
8 hours after I left home, I'm in the
queue to see the specialist. Would you
agree, this is an unacceptable journey?
Yet this is typical for a majority of
207 million Pakistani people being
denied of basic health facilities
because of poverty and inefficient
systems. This situation is not very
different from more than 3 billion
people across the world. I wanted to find
out why is this happening, why the
healthcare system has fallen apart in
Pakistan. Why the government cannot
provide efficient health care. Through a
mixed method I interviewed 30 world
leaders from senior hospital management
and union representatives to get their
insights. Then, using a perception survey
I collected over 1400 responses from
frontline doctors and nurses I found
four important factors. Firstly
increasing population and low budget.
Secondly shortage of health
professionals. Thirdly poor human
resource management practices, and
finally high prevalence of unethical
behavior. I found that more than 90% of
the hospital administrators are not
qualified to lead a hospital as they
come from the clinical background and
there is a conflict of interest being an
administrator and a highly paid specialist.
Therefore they are not capable of the
strategic planning and implementation
My study found that the hospital
performance can be improved through a
combination of strategic HRM and
ethical leadership. So to transform there
is a need for this HRM planning and
implementation, especially recruitment
and training. Through this everyone will
benefit - doctors, nurses and especially
poor patients across many regions. So in
future if these people will get sick,
they will be treated more efficiently in
ways, which we in Australia take for
granted. Thank you. Thank you Mohammed. now
this leads us to our sixth finalist
Chunyan Zhang from the School of
Education in the College of Design and
Social Context. Chunyan is speaking this
afternoon... the title of her presentation
is "China as method: learning to see
multiplicity". Her doctoral work is being
conducted under the supervision of
professor Professor Peter Kelly and Dr.
Emily Gray and the larger project from
which this presentation is drawn is
entitled "China: a hybrid assemblage
identity symbol and metaphor in a
language program in Australia".
Please welcome Chunyan.
When you look at this presentation slide
you might get some understanding about
my research. In the last seven years I've
been teaching and researching in a local
primary school in Melbourne using autoethnography I look at cultural practices
in teaching and learning. I want to find
out how China is assembled and
represented in Australian classrooms.
There are two very important
observations that I'd love to share
with you. The first, most of my students
are from multicultural backgrounds it's
interesting to notice that most of their
cultures are silenced.
apart from Multicultural day or Harmony
day there's a little space for them to
present their voice in public. Meanwhile
I also discovered most of my
Australian students are constantly
referring back to their cultural or
ethnic background when they try to
understand what China means to them.
Based on this observation especially
understanding a culture by referencing
another culture inspired me to develop
this concept - China as a method. From
educational perspective China as method
invites all students from diversified
cultural racial background to share
their cultures beliefs and values. By
doing this the their cultures become
visible and they have their voice in
this multicultural society. And this
presentation slide shows my ultimate
goal is to help young learners learn to
see multiplicity in our globalized
the society. Therefore from my research I
proposed China as a method is providing
space for young learners learn to seek
out others not only differentiating
cultural stereotypes but understanding
and differentiating and respecting
cultural differences. Second China as a
method is also applicable to
any other second language teaching such
as Japan as a method, Indonesia as a
method, these ideological shifts reignite
the old debate on how second language
should be conducted in today's
globalized world when cultural, racial, or
religious conflicts are constantly arise.
Thank you. Which brings us to our seventh
and final finalist this afternoon it's
my pleasure to introduce to you Charitha
Harshani Perera Withanage
from the College of Business RMIT
Vietnam
Charitha is a doctoral candidate in the
School of Business and Management at
RMIT Vietnam under the supervision of
Rajkishore Nayak and Dr. Nguyen Van Thang Long.
Her doctoral research
investigates the impact of social media
marketing on brand equity related to
higher education institutions in
emerging countries. The current focus of
her research is on comparing the social
social media marketing adoption among
emerging countries in branding their
higher education institutions. The topic
of her presentation this afternoon is
"Social media marketing and branding for
universities in developing countries"
Please make Charitha feel welcome.
As I scroll through my social media
pages multiple times every day I
consistently notice new post and stories
by different universities. I have been a
fan of the comments under the news but I
also love the content shared by the
universities on their official social
media pages. Nowadays universities are
using social media not only as an
information provider but as a marketing
tool also. In an increasingly competitive
environment universities are trying to
adopt social media as their marketing
strategy to brand themselves in order to
attract more prospective students. But
however, the studies on social media
marketing in creating a brand name for
the universities has been very
controversial and limited. Further the
previous studies on social media
marketing have mainly focused on
developed countries and this is where my
PhD research comes in. My study is trying
to identify the impact of social media
marketing in creating a well known brand
name for the universities in developing
countries. So my study is focusing on
five aspects - social media marketing,
branding, private universities,
undergraduate, developing countries Sri
Lanka and Vietnam. In order to truly
determine this impact I conducted a
survey with 800 undergraduates from Sri
Lanka and Vietnam, gathering their
real-life experiences with universities
on popular social media platforms and I
found three interesting findings. First,
social media marketing is extremely
important in creating a well-known brand
name and Facebook is the ideal place for
it. And second, prospective students are
highly influenced by the information
shared by their friends on social media
than the University created
content on their official social media
pages. Third, Vietnamese are highly
engaged with social media marketing
activities but Sri Lankans are still in
their early stages in adopting social
media as their marketing strategy. So do
you think social media marketing
influences undergraduates perception in
accepting universities in developing
countries? Yes it is effective, and yes it
is impactive and this were the research
questions my study answered. Thank you.
Thanks to all of our finalists for...
nobody went over the 3-minute margin, in
fact quite a few came in well under, and
someone came in nearly twenty seconds
under so well done. I should have made an
observation earlier, this event is being
filmed, you'll notice that they're out
there.. there are there's a film crew here.
Excerpts of the competition will be
on the RMIT website in due course. I
guess the other observation that I would
make I'm just going to ask for a show of
hands from our finalists - how many
finalists for whom English is not their
first language? 3....4... is English is English
your first language or the second
language? Yeah five...five of our finalists
speaking articulately in a language that's
not their mother tongue and I'm just going
to ask - any Australian born finalists? Two...
- so our international, we have a very
international cohort but our
international students and I really I
take my hat off to you for for the
courage as speaking a language that's
not the mother tongue at such a high
level and every year
it is our international candidates who
get through to finals and it's a real a
real real credit to
you for every... it should, it should be
called out. Now our judges are working
away on their scoring sheets, not to put
any pressure on them because what we're
going to do now is have a...a break for
some afternoon tea and I think there'll
be refreshments in the room outside
which will allow our judges to consider
continue with their deliberations and
come up with some winners for us. Now is
the time for our audience members to
fill out their ballot forms for the
People's Choice and where... Louise where
do you want those ballot forms left? oh
okay
just leave them with Louise on the on
the way out to get your refreshments or
hand them in to Sam and before we go I
think just another warm round of
applause for all of our fantastic
finalists this afternoon.
okay now thanks so much for curtailing
your afternoon tea by about five minutes
so we can get this underway. The food
will still be available when you leave
this hall so you can continue eating and
refreshments after we make these
announcements. So we had...the judges have
been very busy and have reported to me
that they had a great deal of difficulty
selecting the winners because the
quality the quality at the top of the
competition very very high indeed and
the People's Choice also many votes were
cast and I am very pleased to announce
that the winner of the RMIT People's
Choice for the three minute thesis 2019
is Mohammad Faisal
Well done Mohammed a great communicator
and very popular. Well done! We don't
usually do a runners-up for the People's
Choice but there was really only a
whisker in it this year and the runner
runner-up for the People's Choice 2019
was Charlene Trestrail so well done for
that Charlene. I don't want to keep you
in suspense forever but you know... I'm
gonna just delay the announcement of the
winners for a moment because I would
really like to give certificates of
participation to all of our finalists. I
don't do that now oh okay that's a good
point
yes someone's thinking. All right, so
coming in second place in the 2019
competition our runner-up is Neng Zhang.
just maybe stay up there Neng Zhang.
And it now gives me great pleasure to
announce our winner, from the College of
Science Engineering and Health for her
important work on micro plastics
Charlene Trestrail. Woohoo!
You've got some very excited fans out
there! And now I'd like to call on our
remaining finalists to receive a
certificate of participation. So
beginning first with I've just got to
find my list again with Emma Rae
yeah well we have some will end up
having some photos as well so and I'll
call on Nilmini next. Nilmini Weerasinghe.
Chunyan Zhang
Charitha Harshani Perera Withanage
from RMIT Vietnam
so just looking at my checklist the
People's Choice Award
the winner will be presented with an
Apple iPad - have we have we got that here
now or is that.... yep so come on up Faisal
thank you now our runner-up who has
received her award envelope just for the
benefit of the audience
she's been granted a $1,000 travel grant
for to be used towards travel for
research related purposes hopefully to
attend a conference or something
worthwhile thank you.
and our winner is presented with a
$3,500 travel grant towards their PhD
and flights an accommodation to
represent RMIT in Brisbane at the 3MT
Asia-Pacific finals to be held at the
University of Queensland later in the
year so a big round of applause to.. we'll
get all of our winners up on the stage
their winners and finalists up on the
stage. A big round of applause for our
winners
and a very big round of applause to all
our finalists recognizing that it is a
really significant achievement to to be
able to talk compellingly about your
research in... in three minutes with the
assistance of only one or a slide and I
think we only have a couple of winners
but all of our finalists have really
excelled and they deserve our our 
applause so please give them a big round of
applause. Now members of the audience are free to go and avail themselves of the
refreshments. I think I need to confer
with the photographer there may be more
photographs that you require? so please
everybody else the the the proceedings
are formally concluded, take more
refreshments please eat, eat as much as
you wish and we'll get these photos done
and you can join your friends who are
finalists then. Thank you very much and
thanks to again to our judges.
