This conference was held in honour of Professor Ulrich Dilthey's retirement after many decades of leadership in the field of welding.

Air Berlin |

Dusseldorf Airport |

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Dusseldorf Central Railway Station |

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Can't see this getting around a corner in Cambridge - but then again, it is German engineering and anything is possible |

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Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |

Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |

Professor Ulrich Dilthey - this meeting is to clebrate his achievments |

Professor Ulrich Dilthey - this meeting is to clebrate his achievments |

An inspiring lecture by Dr Fiegel of Daimler. Really makes one want to buy properly engineered cars (German cars). He showed a ballet of laser-carrying robots. |

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engine valves (hardfaced) |

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Electron beam welder for minature components |

Welding in action |

Welding in action |

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Some nice students and a visiting scientist, working with Professor Ulrich Dilthey at Aachen University. |

Vitali Pavlik, an old friend, expert on phase field modelling and generous with his movies |

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Lunch |

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Harry |

Vitaly Pavlik |

Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |

Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |

Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |

Stainless steel architecture at the Euro Congress Centre in Aachen |

Welding torches |

Welding torches |

Stainless steel double helix |

Stainless steel double helix |

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Minature component electron beam welded |

The exhibition |

Dr Ing. J. Pieschel and Professor Horst Cerjak |

Dr Wolfgang Jansen, with whom we collaborated during the days of Chris Downs and Roger Conroy in the welding of steam turbines. |

Professor Wolfgang Bleck, Aachen University, being congratulated after his lecture |

Professor Konstantin Yushchenko, Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine |

with Professor Konstantin Yushchenko, Paton Electric Welding Institute, Ukraine |
 This place has taste. |

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The Prime Minister (Mr Singh) of India and The Chancellor of Germany (Mrs Merkel) |

Drs Pavlik and Beck |

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Professor Horst Cerjak |

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The restaurant that Professor Bleck took Harry to, was created in the 19th century by a man called Reuters, who founded the now famous Reuters news agency. His first service operated via pidgeons between Brussels and Aachen, and he then moved to London. |

At the Reuters restaurant. |

One of the gates to Aachen |

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At the Institute for Ferrous Research in RWTH Aachen. Huge tensile samples. |

The machine used for the large tensile samples (could not get the whole machine into the picture. |

The foundary. |