03/13/2007

<p>Mr. Akira Satou, a second - year student of the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of School of Computer Science and Engineering at UoA is now　doing his 2-month research (from January 22 to March 21)at State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A on UoA's International Short -term Study Program for Academic Year 2006.<br />Here is a report on his research and daily life in U.S.A.</p>
<h2>A regular report from Buffalo, New York, U.S.A [2]<br />March 12, 2007</h2>
<p>Only a few days are left for my stay in America. I spent much time on the research for about three weeks since I came here, then I stopped working and spend more on talking with the host family and people in the lab. In my view I come to speak English little by little. We often spend time on playing uno or chatting with watching TV.<br />We went sledding at a day on February when snow was not melt yet. It sounds like a child's play, but the hill we went was very steep so that speed was very fast, and it had many bumps, so it was really a hard play. Though all my muscle sore the next day, since then we became good friends.</p>
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<p>There is a couple in the family who had a wedding at the beginning of March, and I could attend it. I was very happy to be at the wedding only among the family. I send a picture of the family at the wedding. The second and third from the left is the couple. By the way, we went to Niagara Falls after the wedding.</p>
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<p class="imgItem"><img src="/osip/information/img/en/ny1.jpg" alt="Conference" width="200" height="150" /></p>
<p>From March 7 to 9, I attended a conference, APS March Meeting 2007, which was held by American Physical Society, and made an oral presentation. The presentation was of course based on the research done during the stay in America. The scale of the conference was very large like even the number of speakers was over ten thousand, and talks of a variety of fields were given. I saw many talks related to my research field, and they were very stimulus for me. Also, I will give a 40-minute talk or so like a seminar at the university on March 13, which is a day before I will leave. I am looking forward to doing it because I had never had such a