Greece Travelogue, Part 2

[michiexile]

First things first: I promised you a photo of the night-lit bridge. This one was taken with a 30s exposure from the beach outside our hotel; resting on a bench for stability.



Now, the conference has started. Alas, my first night, I was faaar to zonked out by travel fatigue, conference fatigue, and spending the first night together with my wife in over a month. Result? For a conference where everything of interest happened before 11am, I woke up at noon. I got myself out for the talk by Sergey Matveev though - very interesting! He applies the Diamond Lemma by Newman to get reduction systems for collections of knots in generic manifolds and orbifolds, and does surgery to simplify the knots. Doing this, he's been able to prove prime decomposition theorems in a number of previously unproven settings - and construct a counterexample for a few interesting settings.

Up today? ALL the really interesting talks of the conference. In a single morning marathon. Good thing I'm awake early enough to catch the hotel breakfast and get there on time today at least. I'll be speaking 3rd.

But before I leave? Have some more pictures. An alchemical bar sign, and my beautiful wife:





TTFN

Comments

[pastwatcher]

Wow, yes--amerikabrev not only appears beautiful in those pictures, but also vivacious.