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a year ago, a world away
Posted in Statistics with tags Bristol, COVID-19, demonstration, England, flight, Greta Thunberg, pandemics, plane trip, seminar, Travel, United Kingdom, University of Bristol, Wales on February 24, 2021 by xi'anBansky in the loo
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags Bansky, Bristol, Britain, coronavirus epidemics, COVID-19, England, lockdown, quarantine, rats, toilet on April 26, 2020 by xi'anThe Fry Building [Bristol maths]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags brise soleil screen, Bristol, Charles Francis Hansom, Fry Building, graded building, mathematics department, Peter Green, School of Mathematics, sculpture, University of Bristol, Voronoi tesselation, Wolfson Foundation on March 7, 2020 by xi'anWhile I had heard of Bristol maths moving to the Fry Building for most of the years I visited the department, starting circa 1999, this last trip to Bristol was the opportunity for a first glimpse of the renovated building which has been done beautifully, making it the most amazing maths department I have ever visited. It is incredibly spacious and luminous (even in one of these rare rainy days when I visited), while certainly contributing to the cohesion and interactions of the whole department. And the choice of the Voronoi structure should not have come as a complete surprise (to me), given Peter Green’s famous contribution to their construction!