25 January 2001: Bordeaux

25 January 2001: Bordeaux


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dscf1257.jpg (My reflection in a Bonn window just as I was leaving for Bordeaux.)

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dscf1258.jpg (Expensive digital cameras in a Bonn shop across from the central train station.)

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dscf1260.jpg (Inside the central station in Bonn.)

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dscf1261.jpg (Crane spotting.)

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dscf1262.jpg (View from the train.)

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dscf1263.jpg (Inside the central station in Koln, I think.)

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dscf1264.jpg (A train view.)

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dscf1265.jpg (Another train view.)

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dscf1266.jpg (Beautiful views from the train.)

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dscf1277.jpg (A very erotic sign in the Gare du Monparnasse)

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dscf1279.jpg (Train view.)

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dscf1281.jpg (Big speaker dinner in Bordeaux. My red-eye reduce mode didn't work. )

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dscf1283.jpg (Big dinner for two speakers; no flash. Blury because waitress didn't know how to use my camera. )

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dscf1286.jpg (Me in my Bordeaux room.)

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dscf1287.jpg (Me, overexposed in my room.)

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dscf1288.jpg (Sign by map hotel.)

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dscf1289.jpg (A corner in Bordeaux.)

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dscf1291.jpg (Hazy morning view of a cathedral off in the distance. Naturally, I walked to it!)

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dscf1292.jpg (A plaque on the ground in a plaza where I had breakfast. )

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dscf1294.jpg (View of the sun peaking out from behind the cathedral.)

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dscf1295.jpg (Cathedral glass.)

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dscf1299.jpg (A tower near the cathedral. (Awesome picture!))

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dscf1300.jpg (The cathedral is replete with spires. )

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dscf1301.jpg (A family of gargoyles. There is a bird in flight directly in the middle of the picture.)

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dscf1302.jpg (Inside the cathedral.)

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dscf1303.jpg (Inside the cathedral.)

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dscf1304.jpg (A huge organ. There is a professional photographer shooting with a tripod. Perhaps if I had a tripod, this picture wouldn't have been tilted. )

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dscf1306.jpg (Joan of Arc?)

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dscf1307.jpg (Bordeaux Law School)

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dscf1308.jpg (Very modern (and very bizarre) architecture.)

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dscf1309.jpg (Old abuts new)

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dscf1310.jpg (There's a statue atop the cathedral.)

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dscf1312.jpg (A building that stands at the edge of yet another delightful public courtyard.)

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dscf1314.jpg (Nymph)

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dscf1315.jpg (The gate to the courtyard.)

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dscf1316.jpg (Galerie of fine arts)

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dscf1318.jpg (A display at Bordeaux's biggest bookstore. In fact, by American standards this store is not *that* big; however, the quality and novelty of what I found inside was delicious.)

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dscf1319.jpg (There is a movie theater across the street from my hotel room.)

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dscf1320.jpg (Henri Cohen, about to enter the mathematics institute.)

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dscf1321.jpg (A tree, as seen from the secretary's office.)

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dscf1322.jpg (Another view from the secretary's office. )

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dscf1323.jpg (Bordeaux students walking hand-in-hand from the math department.)

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dscf1324.jpg (It hangs on Henri Cohen's wall.)

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dscf1325.jpg (Beowulf cluster offer)

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dscf1326.jpg (This resturaunt is *not* vegetarian friendly!)

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dscf1329.jpg (Jordi Quer illustrated the "graph method" for computing with modular symbols. He has a nice modular symbols package that runs in mathematica. Because mathematica draws pretty pictures of graphs, he can literally output the graphs that come from the "graph method". Very cool.)
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