<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Sir/Madam, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like to<b class=""> strongly support </b>the reduced fee request of the PhD student <b class="">Jorge Baeza Ballesteros</b>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> He started his PhD in the fall of 2021 under my supervision. During the first year he completed the first </div><div class="">study of the large N dependence of pipi scattering, resulting in a publication just approved in JHEP. </div><div class="">He presented this work in last year conference and gave an excellent talk. During the past three months </div><div class="">he has done a secondment at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Prof. Max Hansen </div><div class="">and in just three months he has achieved resultson three particle scattering that are ready to be presented </div><div class="">at the lattice conference this year. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He has limited funding resources for travel, so I strongly support his request for a reduced fee. He is totally </div><div class="">worthy of this partial support !</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sincerely, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prof. Pilar Hernández</div><div class="">University of Valencia</div></body></html>