RICK AND KATHY ARE HOME
FROM A TRIP TO CHINA AND TAIWAN

most recent updates 7/05:
  • "ALL the TEA in CHINA"
  • SHANGHAI CONFERENCE BANQUET IN SUZHO


    • MEET DINKY, your guide!

  • ARRIVAL AND DAYS IN SHANGHAI
  • THE FIFTH SHANGHAI CONFERENCE
    on COMBINATORICS begins in SHANGHAI
  • VIEWS from the BUS (Shanghai to the Lake Taihu)
  • CONFERENCE continues ON TAIHU LAKE NEAR SUZHOU (May 15 – 18)
  • INSIDE THE HOTEL ON TAIHU LAKE
  • The Conference Tourist Boat on Taihu Lake(May 17)
  • On board the fastest train in the world the Maglev to Pudong airport

    5 Shanghai Dumplings, 2005
    poems Kathy wrote during the 5th Shanghai Conference on Combinatorics


    See Kathy's sketches of the speakers
    SHANGHAI Portrait Gallery
    Speakers Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17 & 18, 2005
    Speakers Monday, May 16, 2005
    Speakers Saturday and Sunday, May 14&15


    TAIWAN, May 18 to 22

  • ARRIVAL IN TAIWAN(May 18)
  • THE CTS Conference on Combinatorics and Its Applications
    at National Chiao Tung University IN HSINCHU, TAIWAN (May 19-21)
  • TAIWAN CONFERENCE CELEBRATIONS PHOTO ALBUM
  • TAIWAN BANQUET FOOD ALBUM
  • RICK'S TAIWAN LECTURE(other conference photos to come)
  • A WALK IN THE GARDENS OF HSINCHU(May 21)
  • Our Karaoke Bus Ride (to Tapei) May 22, 2005
  • THE PALACE MUSEUM IN TAIPEI, TAIWAN
  • TAPEI 101 (visiting the world's tallest building)
  • INSIDE TAPEI 101 (The Food Court)
  • (May 22)OUR FLIGHT HOME

    Kathy's sketches of speakers: TAIWAN CONFERENCE PORTRAIT GALLERY
  • Friday and Saturday, May 20 & 21, 2005 talks
  • Thursday, May 19, 2005 talks

    • TIME DIFFERENCE: WE WERE 15 hours ahead of California time,
    12 hours ahead of New York time
    check on the time and weather in Shanghai


    • Kathy and Rick in the Gardens at West Lake near Hangzhou, May 2002

    READ KATHY'S SHANGHAIKU
    (written during our last trip to Shanghai, for the FOURTH SHANGHAI CONFERENCE on COMBINATORICS

    Kathy&Rick Home Page