Photos
Here are some photos taken after I obtained a digital camera in
2002. A few are scanned photos from earlier.
First, some of my favorites.
- Sunset over the Golden Gate
Bridge, taken from MSRI on November 14, 2002.
- Bungee jump from Sky Tower,
Auckland, New Zealand, on January 15, 2003. Though the operators of
Sky Tower call this a "bungee jump," the jumper is actually guided
down. You can see the guide wires at the left, top, and right edges
of the window.
- Geese,
fountain, and azaleas, KAIST, Daejon, Korea (April,
2008).
- Symmetry
and Symmetry,
Occom Pond, Hanover, NH (August, 2010).
Others:
- Photos from the Boston area
- Speakers on Cohen-Macaulay
posets, Banff (September, 1981).
- Partial Stanley family:
my wife, father, mother, sister-in-law, cousin, cousin's
daughter, brother, myself, and nephew, in Englewood, Colorado (June
26, 1999)
- Mathematics, San Diego style
(January 26, 2003).
- Summit of Mt. Holyoke,
Massachusetts, at the breathtaking altitude of 830 feet (July 24,
2002).
- View from
Mt. Taranaki/Egmont, New Zealand (January 7, 2003).
- Another view from
Mt. Taranaki, with Goeff Whittle, Paul Seymour, and Neil
Robertson.
- Avenue of the
Dead, Teotihuacan, Mexico, taken from atop the Pyramid of the
Moon (July 19, 2003).
- Lunch at XV Coloquio
Latinamericano de Algebra, Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, Cocoyoc, Mexico
(July 25, 2003).
- St. George and the Dragon,
painted wooden statue by Bernt Notke (1487) in the Storkyrkan,
Stockholm (October 20, 2003).
- Hotel Diplomat, Stockholm,
wrapped in plastic
- Schock Prize ceremony
- Fashionable headgear (with
Satomi Okazaki and Wungkum Fong), Berkeley, CA (January 24, 2004)
- Three members of the 1966
entering class, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University (Robert
MacPherson, Neil White, unknown), taken at Park City, Utah, July 20,
2004.
- Proclamation issued by City
of Vancouver on June 28, 2004
- Photos from Asia
- Butterfly feast,
Fjärilshuset, Stockholm, April 3, 2005
- Athena, based on ancient descriptions of
the famous statue by Phidias, in the world's only full-scale replica
of the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennesee, January 11, 2007. Supposedly
the largest indoor statue in the Western world.
- Honorary degree, University of Waterloo,
June 15, 2007 (index of four photos)
- Orlando (2008): DEAR XING (near a
nursing home, May 2);
from wedding of Kenneth Stanley and Beth
Simmons (May 3). The bride and me in a star
performance (May 3). Navel display, Epcot
Center (May 4). More wedding photos here.
- Some participants in Festive Combinatorics, at
the summer home of Anders and Christine Björner on the island of
Gränö, Sweden (May 31, 2008). A near connection between polytopes and
yachting, near Stockholm (May 31, 2008)
- Photos from Iran, 2009
- Photos from UCLA, October 2009: entrance to
IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), entrance to Mathematical Sciences Building,
Hoda Bidkhori, Fu Liu, and Richard
Ehrenborg.
- New Orleans, March 2010.
- Permutations Patterns, Dartmouth College,
August 9-13, 2010
- Photos from Iceland, 2011.