my plans for July
Apr. 25th, 2008 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslI'm going to be in Helsinki for July, between roughly 4 and 28. I'm afraid that those will turn out to be the longest days of my life.
Not only was my paper accepted as a plenary talk, but all kinds of people have been offering to help me pay for it.
First of all, my collaborators from Helsinki offered to pay for my accommodation, given that I'll be there for two weeks after the conference.
Secondly, my local supervisor said that they can come up with money to pay a large chunk of my expenses (perhaps more).
Thirdly, my boss from Machine Learning, who is totally unrelated to this project, offered to chip in a couple hundred bucks.
Now, given that I'll probably fly out on July 3, I probably do not want to have a connection inside the United States.
I'm going to have 2.5 free weekends in Helsinki. Here are some travel ideas:
* visit St. Petersburg (I may have visa issues)
* visit the far north of the country, to see the midnight sun.
* visit Stockholm, in case Henrik is there
My other life requirements should be easy to arrange, though I'll probably pay for them myself:
* Internet
* cell phone (one would expect that, from Finland)
* bicycle
Not only was my paper accepted as a plenary talk, but all kinds of people have been offering to help me pay for it.
First of all, my collaborators from Helsinki offered to pay for my accommodation, given that I'll be there for two weeks after the conference.
Secondly, my local supervisor said that they can come up with money to pay a large chunk of my expenses (perhaps more).
Thirdly, my boss from Machine Learning, who is totally unrelated to this project, offered to chip in a couple hundred bucks.
Now, given that I'll probably fly out on July 3, I probably do not want to have a connection inside the United States.
I'm going to have 2.5 free weekends in Helsinki. Here are some travel ideas:
* visit St. Petersburg (I may have visa issues)
* visit the far north of the country, to see the midnight sun.
* visit Stockholm, in case Henrik is there
My other life requirements should be easy to arrange, though I'll probably pay for them myself:
* Internet
* cell phone (one would expect that, from Finland)
* bicycle
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Summer 2008
Date: 2008-04-25 06:21 pm (UTC)That's great! :-)
Helsinki is wonderful! I have very fond memories of the time I have spent there!
I would almost feel tempted to go visit you up there.
This year I am mostly in Sweden in late May/ early June, mostly because I want to get back to Amsterdam to continue working on my thesis and finally graduate!
As part of my thesis I am supposed to interview mathematicians in different cities across Europe, so Finland/Sweden could possibly be a consideration, but I would need to think about this carefully and discuss it with Benedikt.
I agree with extensionality that visiting Tallin in Estonia would make a very nice side trip. However, they are not part of Schengen, so again, that might rise visa issues for you.
It's good to hear from you again! :-)
Henrik.
Re: Summer 2008
Date: 2008-04-25 07:03 pm (UTC)http://projectvisa.com/countryinfo.asp?countrycode=ee
Re: Summer 2008
Date: 2008-04-25 07:52 pm (UTC)It would be interesting to find the principal components, i.e. a sort of MBTI for mathematicians' philosophical beliefs.
Besides, we'd have some grounds for answering questions like: "are algebraists more likely to be formalists?"
I'm sure you've seen Freek's questionnaire at intuitionism.org . That's close to what I'd like to see.