Post Module Meetup, Teaching Award, etc...
Hi to all in UIT2201 (again):
This will, most likely, be the last post on this module blog. (I am also thinking of how I will archive out some of the thought and entries in this blog for a more general audience.)
One month has just whizzed by very quickly after the UIT2201 final exam. It was a mad rush to grade everything, submit the stuffs, and get ready for a conference-***-research-meeting trip to Shanghai (somehow, all my trips to China ended up in Shanghai [I created a new joke for my talks -- a TaiHu boat joke], but that's another story, ...)
In between all that, I managed to squeeze out time for a post-module meetup -- as it turned out, only three people could make it and they were WeiXiong, Hoang, and Pooi Yean, but it was enough of a United-Nations of sorts (Singaporean, Vietnamese, Malaysian. We talked about stuffs in general, what they are doing, and what they like to do in the long run, and all manners of topics as they came up. It was fun for me. Thanx, WX, H, PY.
WX told me that he is involved in the
I was in Shanghai May 14 to May 24, had a conference (and part leisure trip) with PICB from Shanghai to TaiHu (Suzhou), gave a talk there on Gene Team Tree and told a TaiHu joke that was inspired by the trip to TaiHu wetlands, just before my talk. I also visited another research lab SCBIT and gave a talk at Shanghai University, Mathematics Department. It was a fruitful trip as I managed to have very rewarding discussions with various people on the research work and possible collaborations in research. I also participated in the 3-minute tribute to the Wenchuan earthquake victims on Monday, May 19th, at 2:28pm, as part of the 3-day official mourning period. It was a moving experience.
On my first day back to the office, I got a letter from the USP about a teaching award from the USP. This, I must say, I owe it, to all of you students in the class as well, for the cooperation, participation, enthusiasm, and hard work in the course. *Thanks of all of you* Couldn't have done it without you.
Regards, --hon-wai