Ecole des Mines

December 7th, 2017

I was invited to give a talk at the Ecole des Mines in Paris yesterday.  This is the school where Maurice Allais taught, winner of the 1988 Economics Nobel Prize.  The school is located very close to where we live in the 6th.  In fact, entirely by coincidence, they arranged the post-talk dinner at the restaurant on the ground floor of our apartment building.  

It was a nice crowd, and I received a number of useful comments on my paper.  Overall, it was a lovely day and I was very happy to have gone.  The most remarkable thing, though, was the room where I gave my seminar:  oak paneling, coffered ceiling, intricate hand-carved details, chandeliers, a beautiful view of the Luxembourg Gardens.  Hands down the fanciest seminar room I have ever presented in.  (The wifi antennae were hidden behind the carved cherubim above the door, by the way.)