This is the Saturday before departing again for Leuven, for the Belgian Francqui Lectures. It was raining and hence the Mittal cap
Went in for lunch at Darwin College and was surprised to meet David and Jennifer Edmonds. David was Harry's Ph.D. supervisor and Jenny a Research Fellow at Darwin.
Steve Freeman at Darwin College. He wrote several papers with the late Professor Robert Honeycombe on the subject of interphase precipitation.
On Sunday, the train journey from Cambridge to London begins. The taxi to the station was late, and reached just 10 s before the train departed
The closed case.
The stations on the way to London: Letchworth Garden City
The stations on the way to London: Hitchin
The stations on the way to London: Stevenage
Through a tunnel
The stations on the way to London: Finsbury park
In London King's Cross
Walk to St Pancras International Station
Catch 1404 train to Brussels
Nous arrivons à Burssels
A convertor for molten steel, at KU Leuven
A convertor for molten steel, at KU Leuven
Harry gave a course of lecture on solid state phase transformations in steels. This is the audience.
On two of the days, he talked for four hours (with breaks)
On Tuesday, went the Ghent University to listen to talks on collaborative projects between five Belgian Universities. There I met this wonderful student who used to be at GIFT in POSTECH, South Korea, but after completing her Masters degree, is doing a Ph.D. in Belgian.
Ghent is a beautiful city, where the established church and ordinary people competed to build the tallest towers.
A perfect day, a walk through the city at lunch time.
The river
This is Professor Bert Verlinden, one of Harry's hosts at KU Leuven, who gave the opening lectures at the inter-university meeting in Ghent
Amazing door in the background
Modern architecture mixing well with the ancient buildings
Commemorating the folly of war.
A memorial to Portugese soldiers who died during the first world war
A. Q. Khan, who led the nuclear weapons programme in Pakistan, did his Ph.D. at KU Leuven on martensite
How to handle stress in daily life.
Really nice dinner at the Faculty Club in KU Leuven
Some of the students who attended Harry's lectures
A view from the top of the castle at KU Leuven
A view from the top of the castle at KU Leuven
Professor Jan van Humbeek, Harry's Promoter at KU Leuven
Jan, collaborated with an artist to produce jewellery, that can be deformed super-elastically. TWEE is the manfacturer.
There are two beautiful jewels, surrounded by a shape memory material net that readily accommodates large elastic deflections
