The 28 July edition of Physical Review Letters featured an article by Ignacio Franco, a former ICTP Diploma student in condensed matter physics. The article, “Laser-Induced Spatial Symmetry Breaking in Quantum and Classical Mechanics,” co-authored by his colleague Paul Brumer, was based on a research that they did at the University of Toronto, Canada. A figure from the article was featured on the cover. Franco, who is from Colombia, graduated from ICTP Diploma Programme in 2002. He is a PhD student at the University of Toronto.