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  Scott Baldridge's
Pictures of IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute   
 

The participants of the summer school were asked by Park City to be a part of the summer celebration parade.  Well, we went a little overboard.  The pseudo-holomorphic bubble mobile led the way followed by a wave front made out of student and professors.

Here is the pseudo-holomorphic bubble mobile:

Do you see tori, `Klein bottles,' and knots?

A side view:


 

Preparing for the parade:


 

I also had the chance to climb the mountains surrounding Park City.  I have done a lot of hiking and backpacking, but never summited a true mountain until that day.  Coincidently, it is named ``Scott's Peak.'' (It's also called Jupiter Peak depending on which side you summit).

Yes, those dots near the peak are trees.  Here I am at the top:


 

That day we walked between 12-15 miles.  I was sore the next day, but not sore enough to go up the mountain again, this time on bikes.  Going up was tough, but  riding down a mountain on a bike is amazing!  (That is, if you don't break your neck.)
 


 

The last adventure during Park City was spent day hiking Bryce Canyon in the southern part of Utah.  Here I am with my mathematics comrades:


  


 


 

 

 

Scott J. Baldridge
224 Lockett Hall
Department of Mathematics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(225)-578-1670
sbaldrid@math.lsu.edu