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First week in Montreal

I'm in Montreal for the first week of the SMS-2008: Summer School Symmetries and Integrability of Difference Equations at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques at Universite de Montreal. It has been a tough but exciting one. However, by now one of the best things is that during the same week there is a conference or Celebratation of Raoul Bott's Legacy in Mathematics. I had the chance to attend lectures given by Michael Atiyah, Edward Witten and Peter Lax. It was great to see some of the genius performing alive.
So far I have not seen much of the city but yesterday went to a pub and got the chance to watch game 3 of the NBA finals: Lakers won against Celtics.