Massilia [2]
Yesterday, I went once again to Marseille for a second hiring committee meeting. Apart from seeing the above skater using cars for pulling him up the street (!), I had an interesting afternoon listening to candidates at the margin between game theory, stochastic processes and mathematical economics. None from Statistics. Nonetheless, the range of fields and abilities was quite impressive. I particularly liked the work of Marie and Rousseau on randomised ergodic dynamical systems (even though I presumably missed the important details…) This is the last week of the hiring committees I take part in, an interesting but exhausting exercise!
July 4, 2011 at 12:13 am
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May 24, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Did that in Paris when I used to roll: driver braked brutally then accelerated then braked to try to make me fall… But it was fun =D
May 24, 2011 at 1:14 pm
As a car driver, I would not find this funny… Anything happens to the skater, the driver is legally responsible!
May 22, 2011 at 6:30 pm
haha. BTW, the windscreen needs cleaning…
May 22, 2011 at 6:58 pm
It does! I could not tell the bus driver, though…
May 21, 2011 at 10:50 pm
No, I laughed and said Hey! and he let go.
May 20, 2011 at 12:13 am
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May 19, 2011 at 8:41 pm
A skater latched on to my rack like that the other day while I was riding my bike!
May 19, 2011 at 9:23 pm
And did you kick him/her?!?!