<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Pedro,<div class="">Thank you. This brings back happy memories of a ten week mathematical visit to Zaragoza in 1982.</div><div class="">I toured in Southern Spain (saw the Alhambra and more) and lectured to Jose Montesinos and his colleagues and students on knot theory for most of the ten weeks, daily.</div><div class="">Jose took me north to the mountains and to castles and showed me how to search for crystals in the earth.</div><div class="">The course notes became a book “On Knots” and the experience lives with me all the time.</div><div class="">Seasons Greetings and </div><div class="">Very best regards,</div><div class="">Lou Kauffman</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 22, 2017, at 5:58 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" class="">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="moz-forward-container" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="+2" class=""><small class=""><small class="">Dear FIS Colleagues,<br class=""><br class="">Herewith the customary Christmas scene at El Pilar Basilica of Zaragoza.<br class="">It is a really beautiful place that you should visit... I promise not to be a bad amphitryon ;)<br class=""><br class="">As for the next sessions, we will have the traditional New Year Lecture, and then another two sessions on data-driven science and on combinatorial logics</small></small></font><font size="+2" class=""><small class=""><small class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in biological information</small></small></font><font size="+2" class=""><small class=""><small class="">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<br class=""><br class="">All the best--Pedro</small></small><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><Mail Attachment.jpeg></span><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
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