Heidelberg

So I managed to make it to Heidelberg at long last, on Wednesday evening. I attended a couple days of lectures and slept long nights, and only now have had the time to get on to the internet for some blogging.

The main reason I haven't been on is that there is no wireless at my hotel! It's terrible! There is internet at the conference and the university, but it's a 25 minute walk that I don't like making with my laptop in tow. But I figured it would be worth it to bring you guys an update so here ya go!

I had a bit of trouble following the lectures at the summer school, since it was building on a lot of material I'd missed in the first few days. Hopefully the talks at the conference will be better.

Heidelberg is really hot, almost like there are actually seasons in this part of the world and this one is the hot one. It's not so bad as Florence though, so I think I'll survive.

There's a big old castle in Heidelberg and I went there yesterday with Alex and Yun, a Belgian grad student we met at the summer school.

Overall it's been neat talking to people and hanging out, but I'm hoping to actually learn some real math next week, and I'm looking forward to getting home.