On 2022/11/12-13, I attended a domestic conference on control with Prof. Hirata, Ajioka, Morikita, and Miwa. I've met a lot of my old dear friends at this conference. We departed on 2022/11/11 and had dinner altogether with Prof. Kawai, Wasa, and Watanabe (Wasa's student).
The presenters from the University of Toyama were as follows.
I went to the session where Prof. Hirata was the chair. There I've met an old friend of mine: Satoshi! He's now an assistant professor at the Nagoya Institute of Technology. Went out for lunch with Satoshi as the session was over.
Prof. Hirata presiding the morning session.
Next, I went to the session presided by Prof. Hatanaka. There I've met with old Tokyo Tech friends: Yamauchi and Funada!
Prof. Hatanaka (standing) chair of the afternoon session on nonlinear control.
After this session, I went to a robotics session to attend Satoshi's student presentation. We then had a special presentation on noncontact displays using beam lights.
Next, I went eat with Yamauchi, Funada, and Satoshi to "The Juicy Gyoza Dandan". Apparently, according to Tanaka-kun (Tokyo tech), the gyoza (dumplings) were not authentic as we can find them as a chain anywhere in Japan. Anyway, it was very delicious!
Group picture at the "Juicy Gyoza Dandan" restaurant. From left to right (standing): Prof. Hoshino (Kyoto Uni), Tottori (Tokyo Uni), Prof. Hatanaka, Yamauchi, Tam, Prof. Satou (Osaka Uni), Prof. Okujima (Kumamoto Uni), Satoshi, Fujinami (Tokyo Uni), Funada, Satou (Nagoya Tech). Left to right (sit down): Prof. Nishimura, Onizuka (student of Prof. Nishimura), Mengmou, Tanaka.
2022/11/13 (Sun)
In the afternoon, I attended the presentations of Miwa, Morikita, and Ajioka. The presentations were extremely good! I'm very proud of them!
Miwa presenting "On Simplified Model of Glucose-insulin Dynamics for Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus".
Morikita presenting "On Modeling and Simulator Development for FES-cycling Systems".
Ajioka presenting "Modeling of the 3D Trajectory and Shock Interaction of a Ball-Batt System Using the Elastic-Collision and Energy-Conservation Principles".
After the presentation, I had dinner with the students, Funada, and Satoshi. We went to "Utsunomiya Minmin", apparently selling authentic gyoza.
From left to right: Tam, Satoshi, Funada, and Terunuma (Funada's student).
From left to right: Ajioka (up), Miwa (down), Sato (Satoshi's student), Morikita.
A wonderful trip with Prof. Hirata and all the students of Toyama! Thanks everyone!
Bonus: 2022/11/16 (Gyoza party)
Ajioka, Miwa, and Morikita brought back 30 dumplings from Utsunomiya Minmin to share with everyone in the lab. The participants were: Kono, Takeshita, Kitajima, Miwa, Kinoshita, Ajioka, Kajiwara, and Tam.
From left to right: Kono, Takeshita, Kitajima, Miwa, Kinoshita (half face).
From left to right: Miwa, Kinoshita, Kajiwara, Ajioka, Kono, Takeshita.
