Photos

Here are some photos taken after I obtained a digital camera in 2002. A few are scanned photos from earlier.

First, some of my favorites.

• Sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge, taken from MSRI on November 14, 2002.
  
  
• Bungee jump from Sky Tower, Auckland, New Zealand, on January 15, 2003. Though the operators of Sky Tower call this a "bungee jump," the jumper is actually guided down. You can see the guide wires at the left, top, and right edges of the window.
  
  
• Geese, fountain, and azaleas, KAIST, Daejon, Korea (April, 2008).
  
  
• Mother feeding a baby, Shark Valley, Everglades National Park, 26 February 2014. The birds are anhingas. Note orange caterpillar to the right of the anhingas.
  
  
• A sunset and a sunrise (note also the crescent moon) taken from my balcony window in Coral Gables. The view is facing east. The Miami skyline is in the background. How could this be?
  
  
• A lemur in Nosy Komba, Madagascar, 3 February 2023

Others:

• Photos from the Boston area
  
  
• Speakers on Cohen-Macaulay posets, Banff (September, 1981).
  
  
• Partial Stanley family: my wife, father, mother, sister-in-law, cousin, cousin's daughter, brother, myself, and nephew, in Englewood, Colorado (June 26, 1999)
  
  
• My grandson Bennett.
  
  
• Mathematics, San Diego style (January 26, 2003).
  
  
• Summit of Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts, at the breathtaking altitude of 830 feet (July 24, 2002).
  
  
• View from Mt. Taranaki/Egmont, New Zealand (January 7, 2003).
  
  
• Another view from Mt. Taranaki, with Goeff Whittle, Paul Seymour, and Neil Robertson.
  
  
• Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan, Mexico, taken from atop the Pyramid of the Moon (July 19, 2003).
  
  
• Lunch at XV Coloquio Latinamericano de Algebra, Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc, Cocoyoc, Mexico (July 25, 2003).
  
  
• St. George and the Dragon, painted wooden statue by Bernt Notke (1487) in the Storkyrkan, Stockholm (October 20, 2003).
  
  
• Hotel Diplomat, Stockholm, wrapped in plastic
  
  
• Schock Prize ceremony
  
  
• Fashionable headgear (with Satomi Okazaki and Wungkum Fong), Berkeley, CA (January 24, 2004)
  
  
• Three members of the 1966 entering class, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University (Robert MacPherson, Neil White, unknown), taken at Park City, Utah, July 20, 2004.
  
  
• Proclamation issued by City of Vancouver on June 28, 2004 (with thanks to Julian West)
  
  
• Photos from Asia
  
  
• Butterfly feast, Fjärilshuset, Stockholm, April 3, 2005
  
  
• Athena, based on ancient descriptions of the famous statue by Phidias, in the world's only full-scale replica of the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennesee, January 11, 2007. Supposedly the largest indoor statue in the Western world.
  
  
• Honorary degree, University of Waterloo, June 15, 2007 (index of four photos)
  
  
• Orlando (2008): DEAR XING (near a nursing home, May 2); from wedding of Kenneth Stanley and Beth Simmons (May 3). The bride and me in a star performance (May 3). Navel display, Epcot Center (May 4). More wedding photos here.
  
  
• Some participants in Festive Combinatorics, at the summer home of Anders and Christine Björner on the island of Gränö, Sweden (May 31, 2008). A near connection between polytopes and yachting, near Stockholm (May 31, 2008)
  
  
• Photos from Iran, 2009
  
  
• Photos from UCLA, October 2009: entrance to IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), entrance to Mathematical Sciences Building, Hoda Bidkhori, Fu Liu, and Richard Ehrenborg.
  
  
• New Orleans, March 2010.
  
  
• Permutations Patterns, Dartmouth College, August 9-13, 2010
  
  
• Photos from Iceland, 2011.
  
  
• Photos from the Miami area
  
  
• Photos from the Bogota area, 2014.
  
  
• Photos from Knuth80, Piteå, 2018
  
  
• Students from the 1900's and from the 2000's: photos of my 60 Ph.D. students (some are missing), given to me as framed pictures by Sheila Sundaram and Erik Altman in March, 2018, on the occasion of my retirement from M.I.T.
  Updated version (only one missing student)
  
  
• Some of my best fans