
Room service at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver |

View at night. |

Macintosh in hotel in Vancouver |

Kaneaki Tsuzaki and a colleague. |

Professors Furuhara and Naoya Masahashi (PT Group member, now at Tohoku University. |

Professor Franck Tancret on right (PT Group member, now at Universite de Nantes) |

The opening ceremony. |

Kaneaki chaired the ceremony. |

John Vitek (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Mehran Maalekian (PT Group member, now at TU Graz). |

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Young-Sang Na from Korea |

Sweet dreams |

Lars-Erik Svensson, Volvo Trucks and long-standing colleague. |

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Professor Elena Pereloma, Monash University on the left |

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Professor Clement Imbert, ACTT, Trinidad and Tobago (he knew Jason Mohamed, 1990 PT Group member from Trinidad) and Prof. Tara Chandra, who organised the THERMEC meeting. |

Professor Maryan |

Professor Ikeuchi, editor STWJ, JWRI, Osaka University |

Franck Tancret and Joe Robson (PT Group members) |

Professors Yang and Chang (PT Group members) |

Lars-Erik |

Professors Toshihiko Koseki (Tokyo University) and Horst Cerjak (TU Graz) in the background |

Priti, Manabu Takahashi (first Japanese student in 1987 PT Group, now at Nippon Steel), Yang and Chang |

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The bed |

Professor Rian Dipennar |

Heung-Ju Kim from RIST (Korea), and colleague, working on friction stir welding |

Beatrice (left) and Amaia Izia (standing, PT Group member, now at CEIT, Spain) |

Peter and Ernst, TU Graz |

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On the way to Chang's Canadian home |

Chang's car and beautiful home |

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The view at the waterfront, Vancouver |

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Conference dinner |

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Professor Tony DeArdo (Pittsburgh) and Brian Wilshire (Swansea University) |

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