The opening ceremony for the new Graduate Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy building at POSTECH was held on the 30th of June 2009. A breathtaking achievement since the Institute was conceived in late 2005. There is now no excuse for not achieving the best research in steels. 
    
        
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 Tony DeArdo in Harry's new office
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 Waiting at the lift
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 On the roof garden
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 Roof garden
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 Looking down at the blast furnace from the fifth floor
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 The lifts
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 Tony, in a pensive mood
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 The wonderful auditorium designed by Professor Sung Mo Jung
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 This is where the opening ceremony of the new building began
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 The blast furnace, looking towards the top from the ground floor
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 Professor Sung Mo Jung in Harry's new office, which itself was made ergonomic by Sung Mo
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 Peter Hayes (University of Queensland), Bart Blanplain (University of Leuven), Hae Geon and Emeritus Professor Henri Gaye socialising in Harry's new office
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 ....later to be joined by In Gee and Rongshan
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 The blast furnace and anvil from the outside
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 full of admiration for the new building
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 In the library
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 John Speer (Colorado School of MInes) and Bruno de Cooman in the library
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 The formal opening ceremony began on Tuesday
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 Pedro Eduardo Jose Rivera diaz del Castillo (Delft University)
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 Philosopher Professor J. R. Yang (National Taiwan University)
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 Professor Rob Boom (Corus-Tata)
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 Henri talking to the Head of the Korean Institute for Welding
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 Yang and Han Soo Kim
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 Michale Ray, Raghavan Ayer, Hyun Woo Jin and Brian Newbury, all from ExxonMobil
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 Harry with Brian Newbury
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 Raghavan with Pedro at dinner
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 The French (Henri and Professor Barlat)
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 The ceremony in progress, just before the room got filled
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 Professor Devesh Misra (Louisiana University)
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 Hae Geon giving his overview
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 Awards to the magnificent architects
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 Awards to the construction company
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 Professor Seetharaman (Carneigie Mellon University) on the left and Professor Scheller (Technical University of Freiberg) on his side
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 The best looking crowd at the ceremony
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 Good friends from Seoul National University and POSTECH
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 In the CML Supercomputer room
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