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[ursula]

I'm officially at the Women's Program at the Institute for Advanced Study for the next two weeks, and ought really to be at Columbia talking to physicists about Griffiths-Dwork. If you're in New Jersey or New York and want to meet up, let me know.

The really exciting travel news, though, is that I've been accepted to a young algebraic geometers conference at Sabancı University in the suburbs of Istanbul. glasseye and I have worked out an elaborate itinerary that involves a journey from Seattle (or Vancouver) to London to Istanbul the week before the conference.

!!!

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[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Whoa, cool! (On both counts). Any chance such a trip would involve a stop in Amsterdam? ;)

[ursula]

I did check Amsterdam flights, actually, but it's much more affordable to fly through London right now.

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that visiting Istanbul is going to be AWESOME.

I think, if I were to come to Princeton any day this week, Monday evening would be the only possibility. Would that be feasible, at all?

[ursula]

Monday would be great, actually, if you're up for it.

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah. I'll think about train times tomorrow at work... Is it possible for you to get into the town of Princeton? (When I drove to the IAS a few years ago, it seemed outside of the main part of town.)

[ursula]

It's about a half-hour walk: not a problem.

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

OK. After discovering that the dinky schedule is apparently completely random, I think I will try for a train+dinky combination that should convey me to Princeton around 18.46.

Where shall I meet you? Do you have my cell phone number? (I have yours.)

[lubeck.livejournal.com]

COOLNESS!

Have fun! Post pictures!

[ursula]

What, no lyrical prose? ;)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Istanbul! Wow! And congratulations, it sounds like a great conference.

[ursula]

Thanks!

Should be an interesting conference, if nothing else because it sounds like Americans will be a distinct minority.

[reasie.livejournal.com]

you're so awesome! Rock rock on! Byzantium will never be the same!

[ursula]

Artifice of eternity?

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Do not drink the water! My brother and I got very very sick last summer when my father misread the guide book and said we could drink the tap water in our hotel in Istanbul.

[ursula]

Sucky.

I got food poisoning in Prague. But that was my own fault.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Unrelatedly, if you look carefully, the Hagia Sophia has graffiti in Runic.

[ursula]

I don't think glasseye will let me miss it!

[alsoelsewhere.livejournal.com]

I'm in the City for the next month or so. Congratulations on the conferences!

[ursula]

Oh? What are you up to?

[alsoelsewhere.livejournal.com]

Reading novels, apparently. Dissapation. Coffee?

[ursula]

Sounds good. Don't know when, though. Do you have my phone #?

[alsoelsewhere.livejournal.com]

I doubt it, mine's 206 579 4637 though.

[ursula]

I think mine is posted a couple of entries back. I'm still coordinating with my sibling-- it looks like Sunday or sometime later in the week (whenever I'm at Columbia) is probable.