Some photos

When I moved to Austin, I got myself a digital camera, making it simpler to allow others to trace my ways in this new country. So this is the place for the friends at home to see where I have been...

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Germany in the summer (June 2007)

Some conference or other takes me to Europe most summers, and there's often a way to go see some of the towns and places where I grew up in southern Germany. This here, for example, is Tübingen:

And this is a view of the Schwäbische Alb, a high plateau not far from which we lived and the view of which has ingrained itself into my memory as the symbol of where I'm from:

The occasion for me to go to Europe that summer was a trip to Oberwolfach, a mathematical research and conference center (picture below left) nestled in solitude in the Black Forest, a mountainous and often steep area with small villages tucked into the bottom of valleys. It's the perfect place to be sequestered for a research conference:

Later that summer we also drove from my parents' place to Zurich in Switzerland, passing by old castle ruins and strolling through Stein am Rhein on the Rhine at the border between Germany and Switzerland. Much of that city's center is medieval: