On Jan 6-8th, Kevin Jones of Lancaster-U visited the group. We had several rounds of chats/meals and went for hiking on the top of the Baiyun Mountain. Kevin has been around us for 20 years, and many of us visited him in Lancaster. It is great to meet him in Guangzhou once more, and he will definitely come over and over in the future. Lancaster has become of a typical marker of our group, with legendary lots of stories and memories cherished in minds of the key group members.
On December the 29th, a group of us took pictures and had dinner together farewelling Cheng Xianghui (程相会) and Zhang Zheng’en (张正恩) , who have successfully completed their PhD studies in the group and become of new ‘Doctors’. With their PhD gowns on, the two beautiful ladies took pictures with boys and girls in the group. We had a ‘big’ dinner followed by Kara-OK in a hidden restaurant. Memorable time and memorable moments. We wish them all the best in future life.
On September 21-24, seven group members (Gan, Shizhen, Shaojun, Zhang Zheng’en, Zhang Ziyang, William and Habib) attended the SETAC A/P 14th Biennial Meeting at Tianjin, each gave talks.
We met former group members Wang Yan (王琰) and Zhang Yanlin (张炎麟) on the meeting. Invited by Gan, Dr Roland Weber from Germany also attended, who will then visit our group at Guangzhou from Sept 26th-29th. I also met Drs Tu Binh Mihn of Vietnam National University, Luca Nizzetto of Norwegian Institute of Water (NIVA), who are my good friends and collaborators. I talked with professor Xiangdong Li (李向东) of Hong Kong Polytechnic at night, discussing lots of important things.
This was a nice meeting, and the weather in Tianjin was very comfortable.
