Photos from Antalya Cebir Günleri/Algebra Days, 2005

The directory containing this file also contains some photographs taken at Antalya Algebra Days VII by Vural Cam, Özer Öztürk, and Bülent Tosun. To see the photos, you can go to that directory, or you can follow the links in the text below.

Anyone who has photos to supplement these, please send them to me, or better yet, send a link.

This year, 2005, as in the last two years, Antalya Algebra Days was held at the Antalya Hotel. From a south-facing room there, one sees:

• the swimming-pool;
• the terrace where dinner is eaten in good weather, and where we had our tea-breaks, under the palm-trees; and
• the lawn at the edge of the cliff, shaded by a plane-tree.

Conditions in the meeting-room had been improved since the previous year. Then, the white-boards had been attached to the wall; this year, the boards were moved out and mounted on legs so as to take advantage of a recess in the low ceiling. In 2004, listeners sat at tables, which took up a lot of room; this year, individual desks were obtained. However, speakers using slides still could not display all of a slide at once, unless it had been created in landscape format.

When the meeting-room was quite full, as for the first few talks, then a microphone was useful.

If one was not attending a talk, and the mathematics on the lawn was also too intense, then one could descend 225 wooden steps to reach a sunbathing-platform; from there, by ladder, one could enter the turquoise Mediterranean Sea.

Alternatively, one could just sit indoors.

In the evening after dinner, one might visit the bar across the street, or one of the others in the neighborhood.

On Friday afternoon, people who wanted an outing more vigorous than a boat-ride visited the ancient Lycian city of Termessos, high in the Taurus Mountains.

Before heading inland though, we stopped by a waterfall (Düden Şelalesi).

Termessos has not been excavated; jungle has covered the ruins, and sometimes we paused in its midst.

Most spectacular is the theatre, with its rows of seats and its view between mountains.

For the Termessians, the Day of Judgement has come and gone; only their empty tombs remain.

An isolated windowframe is now but a portal for the imagination.

After it was all over on Sunday, during a rest-stop near Afyon on our afternoon bus-ride back to Ankara, the METU contingent posed for the camera.