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Report on the Angelika Fest

Lisa Selkirk sent in this report on the birthday festivities that Angelika's students organized for her on December 6.

Birthday cake

Angelika's birthday celebration, organized by Roger Schwarzschild and Kai von Fintel, with a dinner at a fine Italian restaurant in Cambridge on Friday, December 5, and a workshop held at MIT on December 6, was a wonderful event.

The dinner was attended by almost all of Angelika's former and current students, as well as a few significant others. Some of the former students travelled long distances to be there — Jo-Wang Lin flew in from Taiwan, Kiyomi Kusumoto from Japan, Maribel Romero from Konstanz, Ilaria Frana and Paula Menendez-Benito from Göttingen.

There was a Canadian contingent: Ana Arregui from Ottawa, Junko Shimoyama and Bernhard Schwarz (with toddler Makoto) from McGill. Two came in from Michigan — Marcin Morzycki, Jan Anderssen. Roger was there from Rutgers and Satoshi Tomioka from Delaware.

The Amherst contingent included Shai Cohen, Florian Schwarz, Amy Rose Deal, Aynat Rubinstein and Andrew McKenzie.

In the Eastern Mass. contingent there was Kai, and Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Youri Zabbal from the other side of the river.

It was amazing to see everyone together for this celebration, odd to realize that they didn't all know each other before this. The photos which I took at the dinner are here. The festive atmosphere — darkened room with low lights, lights from the skyline across the river outside the windows — presented a technical challenge for me and the camera, but I hope that the human dimension — including moments when endearing words were spoken — shines through.

On Saturday, the papers at the workshop held at MIT were given by Angelika's current and former students. Other "locals" attended, and the pictures link has photos of some familiar faces there, including Gennaro Chierchia, now at Harvard, and Irene Heim (MIT).

—Lisa Selkirk

December 18, 2008 12:03 AM | 06:35 (2008-12-18) , events , faculty news , photo albums