For the celebration of the recently renovated Fry Building, which I visited in Feb 2019 (my last time in Britain!), the University of Bristol is holding the Fry Conference series, with one dedicated to statistics on 16-17 September 2021. With Peter Green, Arnaud Doucet, and Judith Rousseau among the speakers. It is sadly on-line so does not give one the opportunity to admire the renovated bulding. And the Voronoi sculpture! (And You figures in the title of the conference.)
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Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bristol, conference, Fry Building, Fry Conference, University of Bristol, Voronoi tesselation on September 14, 2021 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'an
While 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!
