Photos from the 2007 meeting (high resolution, in a single tar.gz file). Below are a few samples. Note the photo of Alan Edelman, waiting to check-in his latest factorization method in the CVS "B" registry. Also note the wonders of French technology: all over the Meteo are signs for "points of resemblement" where you can go to get cloned (creating another copy that resembles you). The SVD Bar is in downtown Toulouse.

From October 1989 to December 1990, I was a postdoc at CERFACS in Toulouse, France. I've put this page up for the CERFACS 20th Anniversary meeting (October 2007).

The first photo below is a scan from our photo album. The picture in the top left is our apartment at Place des Pradettes (2nd floor balcony to the left), about 1 km from CERFACS.

Below that is a photo from the walk to CERFACS from Place des Pradettes. Connie is standing next to our 2-cylinder Citroën "deux chevaux". To the left of that photo is Tim in the car. This was the first car I had ever purchased. Daniel Ruiz helped us to buy it, since when we arrived we knew very little French. Contrast that with my Dad's Ferrari 275 GTB (mid to late 1960's), with 12 cylinders instead of 2.

Top right is a photo at Place des Pradettes, with our apartment in the background, and Tim standing under the sign to CERFACS. Under that is a photo of Connie with the horses that grazed in front of the Meteo gate. Behind her is the gypsy camp (the horses weren't gypsy horses). Below that photo is the view of the Meteo, looking at the gate, with the gypsy camp in the foreground.

The top left photo below is outside the Meteo. Note Tim running away from the Daleks (or are those weather stations?), trying to make it to safety in the spacecraft docked to the right of the photo (is that the conning tower of a Star Wars battle cruiser ... or is that the Meteo building?).

Other photos here are of Connie, who did her PhD work at the Univ. of Illinois, and studied the leadership and communication patterns at CERFACS for her research. Note the horse that somehow got inside the gate; I don't know its name, but given that it's hanging around CERFACS, Megaclops would be perfect.

Lots of fellow researchers and administrative staff at CERFACS:

The sign above the ducks reads "CERFACS Administration." The photo got cut in the scan. I'll try to post new photo that shows the whole sign.

A hike in the Pyrenees with Connie, Dominique Bennett (both at CERFACS) and Charlie Marioux (I'm mispelling his name...), the pastor of our church in Toulouse (Nov. 1990).

Connie and Mr. Sany inspecting the new CERFACS building, Fall 1990.

The new CERFACS building ceremony, Nov. 15, 1990.

Iain Duff, Alan Edelman, Stefan, and Dominique at the CERFACS cafe.

Connie in her CERFACS office.

Tim doing parallel processing at a high megaclops rate, just outside the Meteo gate. The second photo below is a single processor, just inside the gate, attempting to cross a barrier synchronization point. The code is clearly a prototype; note the straw.

A cartoon by Per Christian Hansen, drawn on his visit to CERFACS (March 1st, 1990).

Place des Pradettes, about 1km away from CERFACS. Note the sign leading to CERFACS.

The police asking the gypsies to leave. I just happened to be on my way to work and happened to have my camera. So the nice policeman just happened to walk over and ask me what I was doing. I started to explain in my best French that I worked at the Meteo ... well, not at the Meteo, but at CERFACS, a European scienfitic research center located at the ... at which point he very politely interrupted me and said, in his best English, "You go there." Sadly, I missed a photo of all the police in their riot gear.

The Meteo cat. Summer 1990.

Tim and Connie's Citroën deux chevaux.

Tim and Mario Arioli, in Tim's office.

Tim at his office.

Tim, Michel Dayde, Mario, and Patrick Amestoy.

Tim at Sir Fax, drawn by John Haines.

Tim's Alliance Française student ID card. I took French for one month, 5 days a week, 3 hours per day, while we lived in Toulouse.

CERFACS led to multiple weddings ... Patrick Amestoy and Chiara Puglisi for one. Below are pictures of their wedding at Pisa, in April 1990. Mario Arioli drove us to the wedding. It was a good thing I didn't drive ... on the way, Mario was kind enough to show us how well the Italians drive.

Consider a 2-lane road, and Mario wants to overtake a car in front of us. There is an oncoming car. No problem: Mario pulls into the middle of the road, straddling the middle line. The car being passed moves over to the right a bit, and the oncoming car moves over as well, in a beautifully orchestrated ballet. For a split second, a 2-land road (with no median) becomes a 3-lane road. All that remained was for me to regain conciousness, and we were fine.

I hestitate to think what it would have been like with Mario, a true Italian, driving us to Pisa in my my Dad's Ferrari!

The first photo is of Tim, Jan Herve with his baby Anna (I think), Mario, and Jan Herve's wife Nan.

Helen, Dominique, Michel, Tim, and Connie.

Mario, Lorenzo, Daniel (who helped us buy our first car), Michel, Pierre-Henri, and Connie.

Michel and Dominique greet the new couple.

Pierre-Henri Cros openning a bottle of champaigne with a sabre. No glass shards were formed. Impressive.

Tim, Lorenzo, Daniel, Chiara, and Patrick.