Archive for Gare du Nord
simulation in Gare du Nord [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags ads, COP 21, France, Gare du Nord, jatp, métro, Paris, RER B, simulation on January 30, 2018 by xi'an
“those” coincidences
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags Bayes 250, Châtelet, coincidences, Edinburgh, Gare du Nord, ICMS, India, Indian food, Marc Suchard, Paris, RER, RER B, Scotland, The Balmoral, visa on June 21, 2014 by xi'an
Last Thursday night, after a friendly dinner closing the ICMS workshop, I was rushing back to Pollock Halls to catch some sleep before a very early flight. When crossing North Bridge, on top of Waverley station, I then spotted in the crowd a well-known face of a fellow statistician from Cambridge University, on an academic visit to the University of Edinburgh that was completely unrelated with the workshop. Then, today, on my way back from submitting a visa request at the Indian embassy in Paris, I took the RER train for one stop between Gare du Nord and Chatelet. When I stood up from my seat and looked behind me, a senior (and most famous) mathematician was sitting right there, in deep conversation with a colleague about algorithms… Just two of “those” coincidences. (Edinburgh may be propitious to coincidences: at the last ICMS workshop I attended, I ended up in the same Indian restaurant as Marc Suchard, who also was on an academic visit to the University of Edinburgh that was completely unrelated with the workshop!)
