Day 3 in Sweden - 11th September

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Phew, I cant believe this trip is now pretty much over! Back in Copenhagen right now, in the same hotel I was earlier – figured it was just easier and more convenient, even if a little expensive – but whatever, it’s the last day, might as well relax a bit!

I got into Lund early today morning, about 6.30am. Didn’t sleep all that well in the train – sitting and sleeping just doesn’t work for me, I guess! But its ok, at least you get from point A to point B, and get some sleep, however meager….

At Lund, I had a couple of hours to kill, but luckily managed to hook onto some wireless network at the station, so just sat around for a while checking mail etc. Then I went to roam around the town a little before my meeting with Prof. Per Tunestal at the university, which was at 9am. Lund is a really nice town – quite small, is basically a university town. Its very quaint, mostly cobbled stone streets, lots of bikers, with all the students….Had a nice time walking around in the morning light.

I took the long way round to Prof. Tunestal’s office, seeing most of campus along the way. It’s a really old university – been around since the 1600s or something – so you seem some fairly old buildings! Of course it has its fair share of modern buildings as well….

I finally got into Prof. Tunestal’s office at about 9, and met him. Really nice chap, actually knows my advisor Chris from grad school – they were both at Berkeley, and had the same advisor there in fact! Their time there overlapped a little bit, I think, with my advisor graduating 3 years or so before he did.

My time at Lund was really nice. He took me around, introduced me to a couple of the students. Then gave me a tour of their engine lab which is quite impressive – more elaborate than what we have at Stanford, definitely more engines, they have more students and more technicians working on engine stuff there, I believe. I wont bore you guys with the details – suffice it to say that I was pretty impressed.

Then I met another professor, Prof. Rolf Johansson, whom I’d actually met once before when he visited Stanford last year. There was a seminar happening shortly after that, with some guy from Toyota, Japan, giving a presentation – so I was invited to attend that. Was on some traffic simulation software, and a proposal for a collaboration with Lund – reasonably interesting.

They then took me and the Jap dude out to lunch at what I think might have been some sort of faculty club – food was pretty good, and they actually had some number of vegetarian items – mostly along the line of salad, baked potatoes and lasagna, but was quite good. We chatted more over lunch, I updated them on the work I’ve been doing and all. So it was pretty good on the whole – this sort of interaction always helps, keeping in touch with what the other people are doing in your field, and also building up your contact base……


After lunch I met a couple of other students working on HCCI controls, and chatted with them a little bit on work they were doing. Then finally I took off around 2.30, and walked around a lil bit more. Went to the nearby botanical gardens and took a short walk there – was quite pretty. There was nothing much else to see after that, so went back to the station and took the train to Copenhagen, and now here I am! Arriving in Copenhagen actually felt like coming back home – I guess considering I’ve spent like 5-6 days here, this is home away from home (actually, home away from home away from home!). Just mostly going to relax today evening I think, then pack everything and fly back tomorrow.

This is probably the last of my posts here for a while – unless something extraordinary happens tonight…..:)

Take care, all!