France

John Baez

January 29 - March 2, 2006

I spent February 2006 near Marseille, attending a workshop on the Geometry of Computation at CIRM - the Centre Internationale de Recontres Mathématiques. This workshop was run by Thomas Ehrhard and Laurent Regnier of the Institut de Mathematiques de Luminy in Marseille. On the first week I gave nine lectures on universal algebra and diagrammatic reasoning, and on the last week I gave a public talk called Fundamental Physics: Where We Stand Today. I got to know some great people including Peter Selinger and Phil Scott, and learned a lot about logic.

So, I was pretty busy, but I still had plenty of time to look around. Above you see the medieval hill town of Les Baux, looking like something out of Escher. Here are a few more pictures:

• View of cliffs near Cassis, taking hiking near Port Pin with Marco Grandis on February 7th.

• Another view of cliffs near Cassis, taken on the same hike.

• View of Port Pin, taken on the same hike.

• Another view of Port Pin, taken on the same hike.

• The waters near Port Pin, taken on the same hike.

• Below you see the the Calanques, or limestone cliffs, near Port Pin, taken by Marco Grandis on the same hike.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• The town of Les Baux de Provence, taken on a car trip with Lisa and Marco Grandis on Feburary 9th.

• Lisa and I at a cafe in some town near Les Baux, taken by Marco Grandis.

• Marco Grandis and I at the same cafe, taken by Lisa. I look pretty ragged.

• The Calanques near Cassis taken hiking with Lisa, Marc Kalinowski and his wife, February 11th.

• The old port of Marseille, viewed through an arch, with the main church in the background, taken after a lunch of sea urchins with Jean-Yves Girard, Phil Scott and others, February 18th.

• Lisa at the Luminy campus, after returning from Marseille later that day.

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