Concert

Today we held a concert of Eifukai (叡風会) in Kyoto Univ.

Eifukai is a japanese music club.

We have three instruments, koto, shamisen, and shakuhati.

I'm a koto player.

In today's concert, I didn't take part in playing, but work as an announcer.

Especially, the koto is easy to play even for music beginners.

Please visit http://www.geocities.jp/eifukai/.

India in danger

An Email from university tells the danger of India, and asked for the submission of confirmation of the safety.

Next week, there will be an international meeting called Evershed meeting in India.

I myself will not go, but many acquaintance will attend.

I don't know whether they can come and go without any problem...

Rocket meeting

There was the rocket meeting in ISAS last Saturday.
It was a very tough meeting for 10 hours.
I studied the way of expressing myself at such an international meeting.
Do not leave things unclear.
Do not leave things uncompleted.

Lin-san

Yesterday night, I had dinner with I-sensei and Lin-san.

In a short time, I came to know the excellent personality of Lin-san.

He is specialized not only in mechanics, but also in theoretics.

His concept of the sunspot dark core is very new and challenging.

Solar-C meeting

I'm attending the Solar-C definition meeting for 4 days.

The first day is for instrumental and scientific discussions of Plan-A.

There are too many options...

I wish I can make clear my understandings tomorrow.

Plan-A & B simultaneously is the best solution, I think. 

Kanagawa

I'm in Sagamihara, Kanagawa this week.

Today I checked in Toyoko Inn.

By the way, these days I'm getting fat...

Iwatare Scholarship

Yesterday night, there was a get-together party of Iwatare scholarship members.

It was held at Miyako Hotel located in Keage, Sanjo.

An expensive-looking dinner was served, and we enjoyed talking about his or her own researches.

In Kyoto university, 22 graduate students receive the Iwatare scholarship.

Iwatare scholarship is an exceptional scholarship system only for graduate students in science courses. 

White board

White board has arrived in my laboratory room.

The desk next to the white board is not mine.

PASJ acceptance

My paper about fine structure of sunspots has just accepted for publication in PASJ.

This will be the second paper for me.

The created date of the tex file was 28 Aug, 2007.

 It took more than 1 year to complete,... 

Rakuto high school

Today there was a laboratory teaching of Rakuto high school students in Kwasan Observatory.

Unfortunately, it was cloudy for the whole 2 hours.

Cleaning

 Today was a day for cleaning. Completely tired.

I'll make a resume for the Thursday's optics seminar from now on.

Today's English. "やっぱり"... Indeed

JSPS acceptance!

I submitted an application for JSPS Doctor Course Fellowship on May, 2008.

A few days ago, the results have been sent to me.

It was a success!

I can get salary from JSPS every month and get grant-in-aid scientific research separately.

Congratulations to me :)

Blogger Open!

Today I opened my blog for a long-cherished wish. 

I'm going to to write the things happen in my school, and the memories of meeting great people, and so on.

Especially I want to share information with those who have troubles in scholarships and oversea educations :)

Brief self-introduction ...

Name:　Hiroko

Status:    Graduate student 

Major:    Astrophysics

Hobby:    The koto (traditional Japanese instrument)