I’ve just spent a week (minus one day for the Diplomfeier of the mathematics and physics department of ETH) in Vienna, where the Erwin Schrödinger Institute was holding a May Spring(ish) Summer School on Number Theory. I gave four lectures on sieve methods and recent related results, and found the occasion highly enjoyable. Due to the excellence of the blackboards, I only used chalk, however, so I cannot give links to slides for these lectures. Here is a picture of one of the blackboards available for discussions:
I filmed it, and it took me 24 seconds to walk from one end to the other, which probably beats the previous record (the main lecture hall of the ICTP in Trieste) by as much as 10 seconds.
However, one possibly negative point is that there were no cats to be seen within the confines of the Institute. Of course, they may all be living in boxes hidden from visitors, in various entangled states…
The weather in Vienna was not as good as it could have been, but it still allowed me to get a glimpse of the surrounding history. The E.S.I is located on Boltzmanngasse, and there is a “Kurt Gödel Research Center” very close by. Walking randomly, I also found this plaque:
(Note: this picture is interesting — to me — because of S. Zweig, not because of Hegner, who is not Kurt).
