31 January 2001: Leuven, Belgium

31 January 2001: Leuven, Belgium


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dscf1478.jpg (My last walk over the Kennedy bridge in Bonn.)

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dscf1480.jpg (Pigeons in the morning in Bonn.)

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dscf1481.jpg (My Bonn visit had a happy end.)

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dscf1483.jpg (Me, in the train.)

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dscf1489.jpg (The central street of Leuven.)

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dscf1494.jpg (A Catholic cathedral in central Leuven.)

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dscf1495.jpg (Jan Denef took this picture of me. He seemed to love taking pictures.)

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dscf1496.jpg (Look at the detail!)

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dscf1497.jpg (Another shot by Denef.)

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dscf1498.jpg (Jan Denef)

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dscf1499.jpg (Leuven is alive with students and lights strung over the streets.)

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dscf1501.jpg ("The building directly to your left was built before Columbus discovered America.")

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dscf1505.jpg (This is the lunch that Denef bought me when I arrived in Leuven; it is a vegetarian's dream!)

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dscf1506.jpg (The ceiling of the resturaunt.)

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dscf1508.jpg (A Leuven walkway.)

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dscf1510.jpg (The Univ of Leuven Architecture Department's building, where Jan Denef's daughter earned a degree.)

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dscf1512.jpg (This is a quick shot of my audience, as they leave after I gave my talk. When they saw my camera, they wanted to have a group photo.)

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dscf1514.jpg (The Leuven number theorists. Notice that our heads form a curve.)

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dscf1515.jpg (The flyer announcing my talk.)

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dscf1516.jpg (Jan talks with a student of his, Adriaan Herremans, who is studying modular symbols and Serre's conjectures with Oesterle. )

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dscf1517.jpg (Part of the Univ of Leuven's science campus. )

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dscf1518.jpg (Another shot of campus.)

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dscf1519.jpg (The walls of the Leuven math department of covered with pictures like this. )

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dscf1520.jpg (Jan pointing at a giant piece of chalk that he received as a teaching award.)

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dscf1521.jpg (The entrance to Kinopelis, which is the huge Belgium movie chain.)

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dscf1522.jpg (Dinner: This is the Belgian version of "a vege-burger with fries". )

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dscf1523.jpg (Desert: A Belgian waffle!)

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dscf1524.jpg (James)

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dscf1525.jpg (The elevator at my hotel.)

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dscf1526.jpg (Though disguised to look like the packets of jelly that surrounded it when they gave it to me, it is really farm liver. )