Photographs from selected conferences and journeys.

Wlodzislaw Duch | Department of Informatics | Nicolaus Copernicus University

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

Unfortunatelly I am accumulating photos much faster than I can display them here ... Some photos on my Photobucket account.

Singapore

Main attractions: Botanic Garden | Chinatown | Chinese Garden | Jurong Bird Park + more bird photos | Sentosa Island | ZOO
City views: | City panoramas | Singapore City | Bonsai in Suntec City | Bugis + more Bugis | Bukit Timah park | Dempsey Road antiques | Jungle | Raffels Marina | Lian Shan Shuang Lin Si Monastery | Jungle Pottery
A few events: | Chingay Parade | Taipusam celebrations | Night Voyage concerts and shows (Aug. 2011) |

  1. 2011: photos on Facebook | February and June-October | June - seefood in Orang Asli restaurant, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, just accross the strait
  2. 2010: Singapore, July-Sept 2010 and more on Photobucket, with special section on Marina Sands Integrated Resort.
  3. 2009, Oct | 2008, Dec | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 ... still only on my disk.
  4. Cognitive Science Symposium, Singapore, Sept 2005
  5. 2003, my first year in Singapore on sabbatical. NTU Campus: NTU Campus | Polish prime minister 2003 visit.
  6. 2001: few selected photos | a few more | and the rest.

Japan

  1. 2010, July: RIKEN BSI, Uni Tokyo, TIT, Tamagawa Uni, Hitachi Advanced Labs...
  2. 2007, Dec: Tokyo, Kitakyushu and Aso-san, Visiting RIKEN |
  3. 2005 Dec/Jan 2006: soon ...
  4. 2004, Oct: Tokyo, Yokohama and Fuji area, family photos
  5. 2003, May-June: Kyoto | Imadate | Eiheiji | Osaka | Nara
  6. 2000, April : Hanami time | Tokyo and Yokohama | Kamakura | Hakone | Hakone sculpture garden |
  7. 1998, Oct/Nov: 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.
  8. 1996, Fall: I have spent the last 3 month of 1996 at the Kyushu University of Technology (KIT), Iizuka, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan. 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
  9. 1994, Fall: I have spent the last 3 month of 1994 in Tokyo

China

  1. 2010, Dec: Third International Symposium on Information Science and Engineering, Shanghai(ISISE 2010); IISA 2010, Ganzhou, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology,; Fudan University; Jao Tong University
  2. 2010, August : Urumchi, Xinjang, Western China
  3. 2009, Nov: Shanghai and Hangzhou.
  4. 2009, July: Yunan trip, Kunming | Kunming Minority Village | Kunming Western Hills | Kunming Minority Museum | Stone Forest near Kunming | Xinhuangbana | Dai Minority Village | Botanic Garden | Elephant Valley | Jungle walk |
  5. 2008, Aug: Xinjang, Wester China, Urumchi | Kashgar | Karakorum Highway | Heavenly Lake | Turpan | Dunhuang |
  6. 2007 June: Tibet. 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 |
  7. 2005, July: Yunan, including Kunming, Dali, and Shangri-la. People | Nature | Strange things | Cities, temples, buildings |
  8. 2001, Nov: ICONIP'2001 in Shanghai. Hong Kong and Shanghai |
  9. 1998, Oct: Beijing, 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.

USA

Not too many photos form USA any more ...

  1. 2011, July: Silicon Valley
  2. 2009, Feb: Cincinnati
  3. 2008, March: Memphis, TN
  4. 2007, Aug: Florida: Orlando, Everglades, Miami, Key Largo and Key West.
  5. 2007: Hawaii Sharks
  6. 2007, Feb: Ice storm in Ohio
  7. 2005, June: Ohio, USA
  8. 2003, July: IJCNN 2003 Conference, Portland
  9. 2002, May: Visiting Children's Hospital Research Foundation | Visiting Bayer Diagnostics lab in Terrytown, near New York |
  10. 2002, May: World Congress of Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, Hawaii. WCCI photos | Some fun on Oahu | Some fun on Big Island |
  11. 1999, July, IJCNN'99, Washington D.C. The biggest conference on NN this year. Some participants | more participants | time off in Washington
  12. 1998, May: 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.
  13. 1988, Los Angeles ...
  14. 1980-82, Los Angeles ...

Poland

  1. 2011: April, Neurorehabilitation, Torun, April 2011.
  2. 2010: Nov. Współczesna nauka a nowy ateizm. KUL, Lublin, Poland;
  3. 2010: June, Bioinformatics in Torun, BIT 2010;
  4. 2010: June, Welt ohne Grenzen, SHP Congress;
  5. 2010: June, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Zakopane.
  6. 2010: May Argumentation as a cognitive process, Toruń, May 2010
  7. 2010: April, Mirror Neurons, Toruń, April 2010
  8. 2006: June, ICAISC Zakopane,
  9. 2005: May, IV Konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Kognitywistycznego, Torun,
  10. 2005: Sept, 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 are on Photobucket and here: Sunday (tutorial day) | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday, workshops in Torun |
  11. 2005: Bachotek workshops, Poland, May 2005: soon ...
  12. 2004: 7th Int. Conf. on AI and Soft Computing (ICAISC), Zakopane, June 2004, soon ...
  13. 2002: Conference of the Polish Cognitive Society, board meeting, Toruń, 16-17.09.2002
  14. 2002: June International Conference on Neural Networks and Soft Computing, Zakopane
  15. 2002: BIT'02, BioInformatics Workshop, Torun 5-7.06.
  16. 2000: Intelligent Information Systems Conference, Bystra, June 2000: Opening | and banquet |
  17. 2000: 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) |
  18. 2000: 60 birthday of Jacek Karwowski, 23 March 2000
  19. 1999: EANN'99, Warsaw, 12-15 September 1999, Participants lecturing and sightseeing tour
  20. 1998: Toruń, Poland, September 1998 Pictures from "American Neopragmatism: A Conference Honoring Hilary Putnam's Philosophy"
  21. 1998: Toruń, Poland, March 1998 Many pictures from FAMO and special session "Fizyka u progu III tysiąclecia".
  22. 1998: A few pictures from special session  on neural networks and machine learning, a part of the "Open systems and Information Dynamics" conference.

Other countries (alphabetic)

Australia:

Belgium:

Campuchea: Siem Reap, 8/2006

Canada WCCI Vancouver, July 2006: soon ...

Cyprus: Limassol, ICANN2009 in September and on Photobucket.

Czech Republic: ICANN2008: Prague, Sept 2008, check also sub-albums.

Egipt,

Finland:

France:

Germany

Greece:

Hungary: IJCNN/FUZZ/ICANN, Budapest, July 2004, soon ...

Hong Kong:

India:

Indonesia:

Italy:

Korea:

Luxemburg, Jan 2009 |

Macedonia:

Malaysia:

Maldives:

Myanmar

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

The Netherlands: Gent, The Netherlands, Nov 2008 |

New Zealand:

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

Philipines Dec 2005: soon ...

Portugal

Spain:

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

South Africa: 2003: Sept. South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference, Johanessburg. University of Pretoria | Lion and rhino safari | Lesedi village | Monte Cassino | Varia |

Sri Lanka: 2010, Sept: Tour around the island, a few panoramas.

Switzerland:

Taiwan: 2005: Oct. ICONIP in Taipei

Thailand:

Turkey:

Cruise on the SuperStar Virgo, Dec. 2006

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

Last modification 10.09.2011, by Wlodzislaw Duch; my local homepage