Aki Photo Diary 2005

Visit Jie Zhang, IOP and NSF of China February 27- March 2, 2005 Institute of Physics, Beijing
●February 27, 2005 at Inner-Mongolian Restaurant with from left Feilu Wang, Jie Zhang, and Gang Zhao. All these friends are from Inner Mongolia Province and they took me to their native restaurant. Milk tea and so on are all very fine with me.
	●February 28, 2005 at Campus of Tsinghua University, the best in Engineering in China. Dr. Jing took me to Tsinghua University he graduated. After the meeting on collaboration, I visited here to give a talk at Department of Astronomy. I was surprised that the professor appointed is a guy who I met in National Taiwan University on February 3 in the office of Pauchy Hwang.
●February 28, 2005 See-food noodle (25 RBM) + Asahi beer (5 RBM) at downtown (1RBM=15JPY).
	●March 1, 2005 visiting National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in the same district as IOP. I visited here to talk with many science officers. I had three meeting including discussion with Director of Asia Core Program for promotion of laboratory plasma astrophysics among Asia-Pacific. Feilu came with me as translator. She is almost professional as translator of complicated science policy making process.
●March 1, 2005 at NSFC. Mr. Chen Lesheng, Vice-Director, Chinese-German Center for National Natural Science Foundation, Beijing. I enjoyed talking with him including history between Japan and China and future of us.
	●March 1, 2005 at NSFC. I had a time to talk on Asia CORE Program with Prof. ZHANG Yinglan, Director of Division, Bureau of International Cooperation (right). ZHAO Gang, Deputy Director, National Astronomical Observatory, China (right) joined me to talk with her on the CORE Program. She is a science officer of NSFC and got PhD of Mathematics at Univ. Michigan. Her English is of course perfect.
Visit for Preparing 5th Handai-Forum 2005 to Ho-Chi-Ming City and Hanoi February 20-24, 2005 Hotel Bon-Sen in Ho-Chi-Ming City and Hotel Horizon in Hanoi Web-site of Forum: http://osaka-hanoi-forum.org/
●February 20, 2005 at Vietnam National University, Ho-Chi-Ming. Faculties of Ho-Chi-Ming welcomed our visit and Prof. Onuki stands to introduce the delegations from Osaka University. The visit is for coordinating the 5th Handa-Forum to be held for September 27-29, Hanoi. I am in charge of Secretary General. 14 faculties from Graduate school of science, Osaka University visited here and Hanoi.
	●Big fruit at a restaurant in Ho-Chi-Ming city.
●February 21-23 Hotel Horizen we stayed. It is very nice five stars hotel, while the price is discounted down to 55 USD per night. This hotel is just it that we used for AAPPS council meeting and APPC banquet last October.
	●February 21, 2005 with Japanese I met in a restaurant in downtown of Hanoi. The man stays in Hanoi over one and half years to study the agriculture economics of Vietnam and works for JETRO, an organization of Japan government. I was lucky so that I could get a lot of information from him on Vietnam. The lady is back parker wondering from Ho-Chi-Ming to here and finally to Bangkok. She was his colleague in JETRO. I could enjoy the dinner with them.
●February 22, 2005 at Campus of Vietnam National University (VNU), Hanoi. The man at the center with black leather jacket is Prof. Luong, the Chairman of Vietnam side and his right is Prof. Onuki, Chairman of Japan side.
	●February 22, 2005 at the front of Restaurant, Nam-Fu, with two ladies from the headquarters of Osaka University. Prime minister, Koizumi, took dinner at this restaurant when he visited here last October. The tree of orange is very typical in Vietnam for celebrating New Years ( Feb. 9 was it this year). This is like Kado-matsu in Japan and usually two trees are at a gate.
●February 23, 2005 at a barber in the downtown, Hanoi. I could not have a time to cut my hair in Japan because of busy schedule in the last couple of months. When I walked at a road near the place where many ambassador buildings you find, I was called and decided to get service. She was very nice skill and the total cost of cut and shampoo and razor was three USD. She did a nice job.
Summit of Physical Societies of Pan Pacific Region and 14th AAPPS Council Meeting January 30-February 4, 2005 The Ambassador Hotel and National Sun Yat-Sen University, KaoShiung（高雄）, Taiwan Web-site of AAPPS:http://www.aapps.org/
●January 31, 2005 in front of the Hotel. The summit was arranged just the beginning of Chinese New Year, February 5-13.
	●January 31, 2005 Memorial picture of 14th AAPPS Council meeting. Delegations from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Thai, Phillipinne, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Hong Kong. In this Council meeting, Join of Mongolia as a new member is approved. Now the 18 Physical Societies from 15 countries are members of AAPPS.
●January 31, 2005 Walking along the canal is of very nice atmosphere. Our hotel is located on the left in the picture.
	●February 1, 2005 Summit of Physical Societies at National Sun Yat-Sen University We had four panels on Tomorrow of Physics, Physics Education, Women in Physics, and Role of AAPPS. I gave a talk about the role of AAPPS.
●February 1, 2005 At the private beach of National Sun Yat-Sen University at KaoShiung. The place was originally a villa of President Chang Kai-Sek. The building behind is a part of the university.
	●February 2, 2005 With Nobel Laeurate Prof. and Mrs Esaki. Prof. Esaki was invited to give a plenary talk in Taiwan Physical Society held for February 1 ? 3 at National Sun Yat-Sen University at KaoShiung. His talk was very attractive with a lot of materials on his personal history and motto.
●February 2, 2005 View from my room of Hotel Howard at Kenting（墾丁） National Park, the most south of Taiwan Island.
	●February 3, 2004 With secretaries of Prof. Pauchy Hwang, National Taiwan University, Taipei. I was in Taipei in order to have a time for discussion to improve the web-site of AAPPS . The web-site is managed by me and the modification and renewal are carried out by these secretaries. From left, Denny, Irene, and Larisa.
Memorial Party for Renewal of ILE, Osaka University January 12, 2005 Senri-Hankyu Hotel, Osaka
●January 12, 2005 with Mr. Takashi Tachibana. He is one of the most famous critics in Japan. He gave a memorial speech on “Expectation from the frontier of science to the renewal ILE”.