Category Archives: Travel

A Preview of Barbados/Bellairs

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Persiflage

This post is probably not so interesting unless you plan to travel to the Caribbean in a few weeks. The website for the conference is offline, so I thought I might update attendees on what might be happening, at least … Continue reading →

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The congruence subgroup property for thin groups.

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Persiflage

I finally had a chance to visit Yale, which (by various orderings) is the fanciest US university at which I had never given a talk (nor even visited). The town itself struck me, at first, as a cross between Oxford … Continue reading →

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Short thoughts on my visit to Berkeley

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Persiflage

The marine biologists at Monterey Bay Aquarium give their octopuses hand massages. So do the fishmongers at Eataly. It’s quite an experience to come face to face with this antediluvian monster:  Are you allowed to turn right on red in … Continue reading →

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Gerookte paling op de Albert Cuypmarkt

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Persiflage

My mother grew up in, as she would affectionately say, the rat infested slums of Amsterdam (complete with tales of giant rats crawling inside the toilet bowl and sleeping two to a bed). I finally had the chance to visit … Continue reading →

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