Europe Trip: July 23 - August 21, 2007





background:

This summer was my third term as DIMACS REU graduate coordinator. For most of the summer I planned and organized seminars, field trips, and other such fun for 25+ undergraduate summer research students at Rutgers. However, the Rutgers program is especially cool in that we have an exchange program with Charles University in Prague. For most of the summer, 5 Czech students came to work at Rutgers. At the end, 5 of the American students and I returned to Prague with them for 2.5 more weeks of math.

As in 2005 and 2006, post-Prague, I used "hmmm, I'm already in Europe" as an excuse to take the train to Budapest and visit friends for a couple weeks, staying through Szent Istvan Day (the Hungarian national holiday on August 20).

To add to the fun this year, Kristin, my best friend from college, flew in to meet me in Budapest, and we took a side trip to Zagreb, Croatia, and Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well.

Each of the links below has many pictures and stories -- enjoy! :)



where to next?

Background/Intro Monday, July 23 Tuesday, July 24 Wednesday, July 25 Thursday, July 26 Friday, July 27
Saturday, July 28 Sunday, July 29 Monday, July 30 Tuesday, August 31 Wednesday, August 1 Thursday, August 2
Friday, August 3 Saturday, August 4 Sunday, August 5 Monday, August 6 Tuesday, August 7 Wednesday, August 8
Thursday, August 9 Friday, August 10 Saturday, August 11 Sunday, August 12 Monday, August 13 Tuesday, August 14
Wednesday, August 15 Thursday, August 16 Friday, August 17 Saturday, August 18 Sunday, August 19 Monday, August 20