Interstitital-Free Steels, Jamshedpur, India

Harry attended this conference organised by Tata Steel and held at Jamshedpur in India. The meeting was exicting with a lot of new information not just on physical metallurgy but also the manufacturing processes.

It also provided a wonderful opportunity to get together, albeit briefly, with a lot of colleagues and friends. Those who were in the vicinity but could not attend, we talked on the telephone.

The journey was from Pohang by air to Seoul, followed by a flight to Singapore, on to Kolkatta, by train to Tatanagar, return by train to Kolkatta, flight to Dubai, from Dubai to London, by train to Cambridge. And then back to Seoul and by bus to Pohang.

• Conference brochure
• Conference programme
• Harry's paper
• Harry's presentation

At Seoul Incheon Airport after the flight from Pohang	Nice wheel
Notice the snow in the background
Snoq
All the security staff were dressed in traditional costumes for the new year celebrations
Arrival in Singapore
Singapore airport	Singapore airport
Singapore airport	Singapore airport
Singapore airport	Singapore airport
In the Taj Hotel in Kalkota	In the Taj Hotel in Kalkota
In the Taj Hotel in Kalkota
	Notice the bats on this tree
Bats, presumably sleeping
Gardening in action	Marking the reopening of Taj Mumbai
What matters in life	At the Taj Hotel in Kolkatta. Toshihiko Kuwabara (TUAT, Japan) on the right and Kwansoo Chung (Seoul National University) on the left.
Elena Pereloma (Woolongong University, Australia)
ON the left is Jai-Hyun Kwak of POSCO, Republic of Korea
	This photograph is of the food eaten by Elena Pereloma
	The gang arrives from Kolkatta to Tatanagar station in Jamshedpur
Debanshu Bhattacharya of Arcelor Mittal nad Leo Kestens (Ghent and Delft Universities)	Sourav Das, who now sports a beard, really looked after all of us foreigners.
Inside the Tatanagar statation	On the way to the Tata Steel Guest House
In Harry's room. Sourav asked to spend 10-15 minutes for a discussion which lasted for more than 40 minutes
	At a reception in the evening. Sumitra was in good form.
	In the centre is T. Ramasami, the Cheif Scientific Advisor to the Government of India
T. Venugopalan (Chief Technology Officer of Tata Steel) on the left, Arunansu Haldar (Chief Chief Organiser, Tata Steel), Debanshu and Tridibesh Mukherjee	Tarashankar DebRoy of Pennsylvania State University
	The Guest House flowers
	The Guest House flowers
Sourav looking especially smart, and standing next to his pride and joy
Masato Enomoto of Ibaraki University getting into his transport at the Guest House
	Inside the conference centre
Professor Enomoto getting ready to deliver his plenary lecture
	Tridibesh chaired all the plenary lectures
At tea (Marimuthu Murugananth in the centre)	Ohmkar Mohanty, Vice Chancellor of Anna University on the right
An artistic shilloutte
Professor P. C. Chakraborty of Jadavpur University on the left
Mukhopadhyay on the left
	The dilatometry problem
Sourabh Chatterjee turned up, hoping to raise quality standards	Shubankar came to see me at the Tatanagar station while I was waiting for a train to Kolkatta
Shubhabrata Datta, currently at the Bengal Engineering and Science University and soon to head the Materials Programme at the new campus of the Birla Institute of Technology in Deoghar accompanied Harry	Met Partha at Howrah Station.