My affiliation with the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) should be appreciated. In 2005, I began to translate the book Geoscience after IT authored by Dr. Thomas V. Loudon, one of the founding members of IAMG. The book seeded a strong willing in my mind to take up a study in a different country. The meeting with Ernst at Liège during the IAMG 2006 conference initiated my application for ITC. After coming to Enschede, I proposed the idea of setting up the IAMG Student Chapter at ITC (ISCI) and with supports and participations of a group of enthusiasts we realized it in 2010. Through IAMG and ISCI I met so many excellent researchers of geomathematics and geoinformatics. In particular, I want to thank Prof. dr. Frits Agterberg, Dr. Harald Poelchau and Prof. dr. Gang Liu for discussing multilingual terms of geological time scale when we met at Budapest during the IAMG 2010 conference. I express my appreciations to friends and colleagues at ITC for showing me the way in research. I thank David for teaching me research skills and Bart,