May/June 2004 Sabbatical Trip

After spending 80% of the 2003/2004 academic year at Mt. Wilson Observatory, we ended my sabbatical year with this 36 day trip. The trip began with a visit to Yunnan Observatory: lectures and collaboration with Prof. Xiong Yao-Heng. It ended with a 5 day conference on adaptive optics at the Science Center in Glasgow, Scotland.

May 22 Guangzhou
May 23 Kunming, Yunnan
May 25 Xishuangbanna
May 27 LiJiang
May 29 Beijing
June 2 Trans-Siberian-Railway
June 7 Moscow
June 10 St. Petersburg
June 14 Paris
June 17 London
June 20 Glasgow
June 24 Edinburgh
June 26 London
June 27 Chicago

Guangzhou Arrival Kunming Observatory Free Range Monkey, Yunnan

Captive Tiger, Yunnan Xishuangbanna Dancers Xishuangbanna Temple

Tianamen Square, Beijing Forbidden City, Beijing Trans-Siberian Railway

UlaanBaator, Capital of Mongolia Mid-Siberian town St. Basil's, Red Square & the Kremlin

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow Bolshoi Performance Moscow University

Sergei Posad Monastery near Moscow Perterhof Palace, St. Petersburg Louvre, Paris Eiffel Tower at Night

Big Ben, London Almost the Midnight Sun in Glasgow Science Center, Glasgow