with new PhD awardees and our supervisor at the graduation ceremony of Caltech (6/11/2004).
Dr. M. Adams (front left), Dr. A. Husain (center), and Dr. T. Yoshie (right) got PhD at that day.

I attended the seminar of Japanese history presented by famous novelist Mr. Jiro Asada (9/9/2004 in LA)
Mr. Jiro Asada is very famous as Naoki-sho prize winner novelist and is my most favorite novelist.
Very fortunately, I got his bran-new novels with his signature by 10/300 probability of lottery.
I could shake hands with him but I couldn't have an opportunity to take picture with him.

with my office mates at Caltech Moore Room36 (7/6/2006)
From left to right: Zhaoyu Zhang, me, Yan Chen, and Terrell D. Neal.

I went to the special lecture “The origins of the Universe” by Prof. Stephen Hawking (4/4/2006 at Caltech)
The lecture was so interesting, humorous, and instructive. I remember that I was very excited to read his books when I was student.
I just took a picture from his back because I didn't want to dazzle him by flash (inset picture).