- This month's two highlights were (1) Dines' trip to Russia:
- Previous trip was in September 1996.
- First four days in Moscow, Wedn.10-Sun.14.
Prof. Irina
A. Lomazova was very kind to accompany me on a tour of Moscow,
Friday 12 June:
back to all the wonderful places. We had lunch at
Central House of Writers Restaurant
and dinner at the Metropol
Restaurant. Great
Day.
- Then 4 days in
Akademgorodok,
near Novosibirsk, Mon.14-Thu.18.
- And finally 2 days
in Moscow, Fri.19-Sat.20 June.
- Gave a talk, Thursday June 11, at Prof. Victor Ivannikov's
Russian Academy of
Science Institute of Systems
Programming.
- Gave a memorial talk on the occasion of the
50th anniversary of
the Akademgorodok Informatics
center.
- And gave an
invited
talk
at the Ershov Memorial
Conference.
- Met many friends of many, some 15 previous 2-3 week trips to the
former USSR and Russia.
- Revisited many Moscow sites: the Kremlin, Arpad St., the new
Orthodox cathedral,
the Saviour, and the "new" GUM, see photos below.
- and (2) the arrival just before Dines returned from Moscow, of
Nikolaj with their three children:
- Marianne, Kathrine and Jakob.
- They were to stay with us through July.
- Nikolaj went on to conferences around Europe
- and went back home July 4th.
Dines Bjorner
2011-11-19
