Photographs from a few recent conferences.

Wlodzislaw Duch | Department of Informatics | Nicolaus Copernicus University


Polska wersja tej strony (podpisy pod zdjeciami tylko po angielsku) - version in Polish.

Other interesting photos:
Flight over Siberia, 3 May 2000 | A few strange photos |

Unfortunatelly I am accumulating photos much faster than I can display them here ...


Bangkok, Dec. 2009

Soon (?): Shanghai and Hangzhou, China, Nov. 2009 |

Workshop in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Oct. 2009 | auto slide show, workshop organized by Crystal group, University of Malaysia.

Singapore, Oct 2009 | Cyprus, Sept 2009 | Portugal, Sept 2009 |

Maldives, August 2009.

Yunan, China, July 2009: Kunming | Kunming Minority Village | Kunming Western Hills | Kunming Minority Museum | Stone Forest near Kunming | Xinhuangbana | Dai Minority Village | Botanic Garden | Elephant Valley | Jungle walk |

Soon (?): Bruksela, June 2009 | Berlin, May 2009 | Leuven, April & June 2009 | Cincinnati, Feb 2009 | Luxemburg, Jan 2009 |


Soon (?): New Zealand/Singapore, Dec 2008 | Gent, The Netherlands, Nov 2008 | Porvoo, Finland, Sept 2008 | Prague, Czech Republic, Sept 2008 | Marsa Alam, Egipt, July 2008 | Jena, Germany, April 2008 | Memphis, TN, March 2008 |

Hong Kong, June 2008

Xinjang, China, 8/2008: Urumchi | Kashgar | Karakorum Highway | Heavenly Lake | Turpan | Dunhuang |

Russia, Moskov, January 2008: Several pictures from Moskov |


Florida: Orlando, Everglades, Miami, Key Largo and Key West, August 2007

Spain, San Sebastian, September 2007 | Portugal, Porto, September 2007

Tokyo, Kitakyushu and Aso-san, December 2007.

Canary Islands, Teneriffe, Puerto de la Cruz, December 2007.

Egypt, August 2007: A few underwater pictures |

Tibet, 29.06-12.07.2007: Various pictures from Lhasa | Potala and Norbulinga - Dalaj Lama's abode | Chagpo Ri hill near Potala | Jokhang temple | Ramoche temple and Drolma Lakhang | Sera monastery | Drepung monastery | Ganden monastery | Thurphu monastery | Nam-tso lake |

Kathmandu, July 2007: Kathmandu | Buddhist places | Hindu places |

Hawaii Sharks, April 2007.

Ice storm in Ohio, Feb 2007.

Switzerland and Florence, Italy, April 2007 | Visiting RIKEN, Japan, Jan 2007: soon ... |


Cruise on the SuperStar Virgo, Dec. 2006

Travelling in Java, Dec 2006: soon ... | ICONIP'2006, Hong Kong

Diving in Aur, Malaysia, 11/2006

ISABEL'2006, International Symposium on Artificial Brain with Emotions and Learning, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 24-25.08.2006.
ISABEL Conference | Seoul - coming |

Siem Reap, Campuchea, 8/2006

ICANN, Athens, Greece, Sept 2006: soon ... | Diving in Tioman, Malaysia, Aug 2006: soon ... | WCCI Vancouver, July 2006: soon ... | ICAISC Zakopane, June 2006: soon ... | Travelling in Japan, Dec 2005/Jan 2006: soon ...


ICONIP 2005 in Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 2005

Cognitive Science Symposium, Singapore, Sept 2005

The 15th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), an official yearly conference of the European Neural Network Society, Warsaw, 10-14 Sept. 2005, co-chaired by Janusz Kacprzyk and myself.
Pictures from Sunday (tutorial day) | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday, workshops in Torun |

Travelling in Yunan, China, July 2005: Kunming, Dali, Shangri-la: People | Nature | Strange things | Cities, temples, buildings |

IV Konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Kognitywistycznego, Torun, 23-25.05.2005

Travelling in the Philipines, Dec 2005: soon ... | Travelling in Ohio, USA, June 2005: soon ... | A visit to Zurich, June 2005: soon ... | Bachotek workshops, Poland, May 2005: soon ...

Bali: Menjangan - North Bali | Nusa Dua and Ubud, Central and East Bali


Manado, Northen Sulawezi, Sept. 2004 | few underwater photos

A trip to Tamil Nadu, South India, January 2004: Chennai and Mahabalipuram | Chidambaram | Thanjavur | Madurai | Kodaikanal | back to Chennai |

Japan, October 2004: Tokyo, Yokohama and Fuji area, family photos |

IJCNN/FUZZ/ICANN, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004, soon ... | 7th Int. Conf. on AI and Soft Computing (ICAISC), Zakopane, June 2004, soon ...

A trip to Calcutta, India, November 2004

Travelling in Myanmar, January 2004: Yangon, Shwedagong pagoda | Bago | Mandalay | Amarapura, Sagaing, Mingun | Inwa | Bagan | Kalau | Pindaya caves | Inle lake | Inle to Yangon |


Singapore 2003, many photos

Thailand, May 2003: | Bangkok | Many faces of Bangkok | Summer palance and Ayuthaya |

Japan, May/June 2003: Kyoto | Imadate | Eiheiji | Osaka | Nara

South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference, Johanessburg, 17-21.09.2003
University of Pretoria | Lion and rhino safari | Lesedi village | Monte Cassino | Varia |

IJCNN 2003 Conference, Portland, 20-24.07.2003, coming soon ...

ICANN-ICONIP 2003 Conference, Istanbul, 26-29.06.2003, and the IFSA 2003 Conference welcome party, 29.06.2003


Conference of the Polish Cognitive Society, board meeting, Toruń, 16-17.09.2002

Neural networks in supervised classification and regression - summer school in Porto, Portugal, 8-12.07.2002

15 Int. Conf. on Industrial & Engineering Application of AI & Expert Systems, Cairns, Australia (IEA2002AIE), 17-20.06.2002
People at the conference | Kuranda trip | Cairns | Outer reef | Rain forest |

International Conference on Neural Networks and Soft Computing
Zakopane, June 11-15, 2002

BIT'02, BioInformatics Workshop, Torun 5-7.06.2002

World Congress of Computational Intelligence, Honolulu 14-17.05.2002
WCCI photos | Some fun on Oahu | Some fun on Big Island |

USA visit, May 2002
Visiting Children's Hospital Research Foundation | Visiting Bayer Diagnostics lab in Terrytown, near New York |

Bayer Diagnostics Symposium, Berlin 7-9.04.2002
Mostly the fun part ... |


ICONIP'2001, Shanghai, China, 14-18.11.2001
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore |

ESANN'2001, Brugge, Belgium, 24-27.04.2001
Brugge - Old City | Brussels |


ICONIP'2000, Dae-jong, South Korea, 14-18.11.2000
Flight to Korea, hotel and Expo93 | welcome reception | speakers and participants | banquet | after hours |

Kurumba, North Male atol, September 2000:
Well, not quite a conference ...

IJCNN'2000 (International Joint INNS/IEEE Conference on Neural Networks), Como, Italy, July 2000:
Como, opening and evening reception | Garden Party | Poster sessions and some participants | TNN meeting | and NNTC meeting | Como and Lugano area |

Intelligent Information Systems Conference, Bystra, June 2000:
Opening | and banquet |

Neural Networks and Soft Computing Conference V, Zakopane, June 2000:
Opening and plenary session | Discussions and rainbows | Evenings | Posters | Banquet | Babia Góra (after the conference) |

Japan in April 2000
Hanami time | Tokyo and Yokohama | Kamakura | Hakone | Hakone sculpture garden |

60 birthday of Jacek Karwowski, 23 March 2000


ICONIP'99, Perth, Western Australia, 16-20 November 1999
Opening and some participants | some pictures from the conference | weekend off | Melbourne | John's family

EANN'99, Warsaw, 12-15 September 1999
Participants lecturing and sightseeing tour

IJCNN'99, Washington D.C., July 1999
The biggest conference on NN this year.
Some participants | more participants | time off in Washington

Norway, April-May 1999
At the end of April 1999 I was invited to Norway.
Oslo, and driving around in Norway.


Japan, October/November 1998
In October/November 1998 I have visited Japan, taking part in the ICONIP'98 Congress in Kitakyushu.
After ICONIP I have visited RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Toyohashi Univeristy, Nagoya University, Meiji University,  and Kyoto University.
Some photographs from the flight | life in Japan | Tokyo - life in metropolis | Eiheiji branch, famous temple in Tokyo | Toyokawa - famous temple near Toyohashi | weekend (14-15.11) in Mojiko (near Kitakyushu) | weekend (14-15.11) in Kyoto.

NN and B, Beijing, China, October 1998
At the end of November 1998 I have visited China, taking part in the Neural Networks and the Brain '98 Conference in Beijing.  First I took a ship  from Shimonoseki to Quingdao, than a train to Beijing. More pictures from China are here.

Toruń, Poland, September 1998
Pictures from "American Neopragmatism: A Conference Honoring Hilary Putnam's Philosophy"

WCCI'98, Alaska, May 1998
In May 1998 I have visited Alaska, taking part in the WCCI Congress. Take a look at a few pictures from this trip: WCCI'98 in Anchorage, Alaska | Polish connection | discussion panel, | Other People | People-1 | People-2 | People-3.

Toruń, Poland, March 1998
Many pictures from FAMO and special session "Fizyka u progu III tysiąclecia".

A few pictures from special session  on neural networks and machine learning, a part of the "Open systems and Information Dynamics" conference.


Munich, Germany, October 1997
A few pictures  from our October conference at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Germany

ICONIP'97, Antipodes, November/December 1997
In November/December 1997 I have visited Australia and New Zealand, taking part in the ICONIP'97 Congress. Take a look at a few pictures from this trip: Welcome reception | At work: lecturing | More lecturers and our special session | Next ICONIP organizers


Japan, Fall 1996
I have spent the last 3 month of 1996 at the Kyushu University of Technology (KIT), Iizuka, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. You can take a look at a few pictures: in the 5-minutes-on-bike neighborhood of the KIT | Views from KIT building and photos of Ishikawa's group | Views from the Iizuka Valley


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