In January, 2008, Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello had the opportunity to travel to India for the first time in his life. He flew to New Delhi, and then to Kolkata, where he attended the International Conference on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm in Materials Science and Engineering (NGMS 2008).

Dr. Coello delivered a tutorial at the Bangal Engineering and Science University, at Shibpur (some pictures of the campus can be seen below), and an invited talk at the Taj Bengal Hotel, in Kolkata (there are some pictures of this very nice hotel below, too).

Dr. Coello had a wonderful time in India. People were very nice to him, the hotel and the food were outstanding, and he even had a personal car (with a driver included) assigned to him during the week that he spent in Kolkata.

Below, you can see some pictures of the city of Kolkata, including the zoo, Victoria Memorial, the Planetarium, St. Paul's Cathedral, among others. A picture of the car assigned to Dr. Coello (you can see his name on it) is also included.

There is also a picture of Dr. Coello with Prof. H.K.D.H. Bhadheshia (from Cambridge University) and Prof. Mahdi Mahfouf (from the University of Sheffield), who were two of the other foreign researchers invited to act as both tutorial and keynote speakers at the conference.