Well today is the day of my talk so I woke up bright and early, 6:00 am to be exact. My talk is at 10:00 am but I needed to be in the room by 8:00 am when my session starts so I can meet the session chair and upload my presentation on the conference computer. After having a nice breakfast at my hotel I was off to the conference center, 2.5 miles away! I reached the room where I was giving a talk 15 minutes early which was great. I met the chairwoman, who was a tall Aussie, I happen to have listened to her talk the day before. She had a very strong Australian accent but gave a brilliant talk! I was fifth to talk in my session so smack in the middle! By 10:30 am, I was done and my talk was well received with two very simple questions from the audience.. I stayed put for the other talks as well and by noon we were off to lunch provided by the conference organizers. What a lunch it was again, just awesome... They served even wine for lunch... Only in France I said!!!
In the afternoon, I met a former graduate student from UAH who is a postdoc in Toulouse and we had a nice talk mainly about his life in France and his research work !!! Very proud of him, he is doing great!! I met other people after that and by 7:00 pm we were bussed to a very fancy restaurant along the banks of the Rhone river! What a place.. The dinner was a SEVEN course meal, only in France again! I got back to my hotel room at 1:00 am after walking through Some dark streets of Lyon for 3 long miles alone... I felt very safe, unlike when I was in Rio, Lima or Quito !!!
T
A couple of statues at the banquet restaurant
Musical band ?? and stage is the restaurant
Overall view of the restaurant, really nice!
A shelf full of French baguettes
More of the stage and band!!
T
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