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[[Image:bnublng.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|The most impressive building on campus. It looked strangely [http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/front_c4.jpg familiar] to us ...]] | [[Image:bnublng.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|The most impressive building on campus. It looked strangely [http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/front_c4.jpg familiar] to us ...]] | ||
[[Image:otheruniv.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|A neighboring university to BNU, which had an impressive statue of Chairman Mao.]] | [[Image:otheruniv.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|A neighboring university to BNU, which had an impressive statue of Chairman Mao.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:lunch.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We had great food at every meal. Here, a fancy lunch out with some other faculty members and the dean.]] | ||
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=Scenes from the meeting= | =Scenes from the meeting= | ||
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[[Image:internet.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Not again! We got used to the network falling down at crucial moments.]] | [[Image:internet.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Not again! We got used to the network falling down at crucial moments.]] | ||
[[Image:plugins.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We were sometimes short on plugins for all the laptops ...]] | [[Image:plugins.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We were sometimes short on plugins for all the laptops ...]] | ||
| − | [[Image:tea.jpg|thumb|center|600 px| | + | [[Image:tea.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...especially around tea time. Watch out for electric shocks and steam burns everyone! Remember what John says; "China is always trying to ..."]] |
| − | [[Image:pingpong.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|There was an | + | [[Image:pingpong.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|There was an Olympic class ping pong table, which unfortunately we did not use often enough.]] |
[[Image:students1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Back to work everyone.]] | [[Image:students1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Back to work everyone.]] | ||
| − | [[Image:students2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px| | + | [[Image:students2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Students working hard on the side of the room ...]] |
| − | [[Image:students3.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|]] | + | [[Image:students3.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...and at the back of the room.]] |
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| + | =Night life= | ||
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| + | [[Image:hutong1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We were busy every night seeing different parts of the city.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:hutong2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Usually we found ourselves struggling to keep up with "Hutong John" as he hurried through the maze of alleys. Quick! Don't loose sight of that red fleece jacket!]] | ||
| + | [[Image:brewery1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Hidden away somewhere in the middle of it all, an amazing discovery ...]] | ||
| + | [[Image:brewery2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...a [http://www.greatleapbrewing.com/ real microbrewery]...]] | ||
| + | [[Image:brewery3.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...with good beer...]] | ||
| + | [[Image:brewery4.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...and access to great takeout (here, flat bread and roast lamb skewers).]] | ||
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| + | =The last day= | ||
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| + | [[Image:billandji.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Bill and Ji struggle to get CESM working on "Pink Bunny"; BNU's (unofficially named) climate modeling supercomputer.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:ensemble.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|And it works! The group completes it's first ice-sheet / climate change ensemble simulation; suprisingly (not really), we find that Greenland's surface mass balance becomes increasingly negative (blue) as the climate warms (from left to right).]] | ||
| + | [[Image:cake.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|To celebrate our minor victory, cake! Our host John does the honors.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:guwei.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|A rare siting of (the highly essential) Gu Wei (in pink), without who the meeting would have been an utter failure.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:group.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Group photo in front of the big screen.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:johnji.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|It's over. Ji (also essential!) and John heave a tremendous sigh of relief...]] | ||
| + | [[Image:front.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...as do the rest of the organizers and instructors.]] | ||
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| + | =Tourists= | ||
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| + | [[Image:subway|thumb|center|600 px|We managed to be tourists too. Each outing usually started on the subway, which ran very often and was always very full.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:tian1|thumb|center|600 px|Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:tian2|thumb|center|600 px|Entrance to the Forbidden City.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:forbiddencity1|thumb|center|600 px|Bronze lion and palace.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:forbiddencity2|thumb|center|600 px|Palace detail.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:forbiddencity3|thumb|center|600 px|Rooftop detail in the Forbidden City.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:summerpalace1|thumb|center|600 px|Temple in the Summer Palace.]] | ||
| + | [[Image:summerpalace2|thumb|center|600 px|Summer Palace detail.]] | ||
Revision as of 21:13, 18 April 2011
Contents |
Arrival and around campus
Scenes from the meeting
Night life
The last day
Tourists
File:Subway
We managed to be tourists too. Each outing usually started on the subway, which ran very often and was always very full.
File:Tian1
Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.
File:Tian2
Entrance to the Forbidden City.
File:Forbiddencity1
Bronze lion and palace.
File:Forbiddencity2
Palace detail.
File:Forbiddencity3
Rooftop detail in the Forbidden City.
File:Summerpalace1
Temple in the Summer Palace.
File:Summerpalace2
Summer Palace detail.
