Kitami Institute of Technology June 14 - July 14, 1996
Sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Background:
The trip was sponsored by JSPS and my host was Professor Toshiyuki
Oshima from Kitami Institute of Technology (KIT). Professor Oshima was a
visiting
Professor at Virginia Tech in 1990 and worked with Professor Kriz on simulation
modeling
and visualization of stress wave propagation problems. Professor Kriz visited
Kitami
Institute of Technology in the Summer of 1996 and worked with Professors Oshima
and
Mikami
the first two weeks by
setting up an httpd web server for the Department of Civil
Engineering. The third week Dr. Kriz gave seminars at Sapporo, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. The
fourth week Dr. Kriz finished the web server and provided information on this
server for the exchange
program
between Kitami Institute of Technology and Virginia Tech. A final report for the JSPS
was prepared and linked to the KIT Civil Engineering web server.
Highlights:
Worked with Professor Mikami and created the Civil Engineering Web Server
Seminar at Kitami Institute of Technology, June 27
Seminar at Hokkaido University, July 1
Seminar at Tokyo University, July 2
Visited Visual Numerics Office in Tokyo, July 3
Seminar at Japan Society of Civil Engineers, July 3
Visited the Japanese Diet, July 3
Seminar at Tokyo University High Technology Research Center, July 4
Seminar at Kansai University near Osaka, July 5
Returned to Kitami and worked with Professor Oshima on exchange program.
Revised May 6, 1997
http://www.sv.vt.edu/research/japan/japan96.html