Archive for Cassis
tickets for Les Calanques
Posted in Statistics with tags Cassis, CIRM, Le Monde, Les Calanques, Luminy campus, Marseille, Parc Na on July 22, 2021 by xi'an
from Mont Puget [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Cassis, CIRM, ISB@CIRM, jatp, Luminy campus, Marseille, Mont Puget, Parc National des Calanques, sunrise, trail running on July 18, 2021 by xi'an
CIRM in dire need of help
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Cassis, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, CIRM, cofunding, COVID-19, France, Luminy campus, Marseiile, pandemic, Parc National des Calanques, SMF, Société Mathématique de France, sunrise, support, trail running, workshop on November 24, 2020 by xi'an
The International Mathematics Conference Centre, CIRM, located in Luminy, Marseille, France, has been deeply disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Up to 60 % of the events planned there have been cancelled so far and all remaining conferences have gone virtual or at best hybrid, open to a remote audience, including in an interactive way. This has required important and unexpected investments. Furthermore, this crisis happened at the worst possible moment as CIRM had just finished doubling its infrastructure capacities. This is why I strongly support the call from the French Mathematical Society (SMF) to make a donation to CIRM before the end of the year, especially from researchers who benefited from its hospitality and unique environment.
Crêt Saint Michel
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Cassis, CIRM, Crêy Saint Michel, Luminy, mare e monti, oil spill, Parc National des Calanques, quotation, rock climbing, Sormiou on November 1, 2018 by xi'an
A great afternoon climbing near CIRM with Nicolas, a mountain guide from the local guide company in Cassis, on this cliff of Crêt Saint Michel I passed everyday [while there!] to go swimming in the Sormiou harbour below, a mere 15 mn run from CIRM. As shown by the above map of bolted routes on the first half of the cliff, there are plenty of choices and more, although there were already four other groups climbing on that afternoon.
All these routes are bolted and have been around for quite a while, meaning two significant things: the quotation of the difficulty of the routes is quite lax and the rock is weathered by use at places, which made going up a 5c route somewhat of a challenge for me when climbing second and an impossibility when climbing first. On the rightmost green route, the 6a+ part had bits where I had to rely on slings left by Nicolas.
The weather was brilliant, with blue sky and hot sun all the way, and the view of the Sormiou calanque (creek) below as a terrific background… I hope I can repeat this experience when visiting CIRM again in November, for the “Big Bayes” conference. And even more that this unique coastline will not be reached by the growing oil spil in the area.
glorious dawn [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel, University life with tags calanques, Cassis, CIRM, cliffs, dawn, jatp, Jean Morlet Chair, La Grande Candelle, Luminy, mare e monti, Parc National des Calanques, Sugiton, sunrise, trail running, Université Aix Marseille, workshop on October 25, 2018 by xi'an
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