Teaching at SFU

Then we all flew to Vancouver. Patrick and I spent a couple of days working on our course in the Applied Sciences department. Nice building.

We were teaching spatial statistics at a summer school to mainly PhD students and researchers. There were also sessions on global climate modelling and forest fire simulations. As usual there was lots of discussion during coffee breaks. And the food was good and plentiful.

Patrick's teaching technique can be a bit forceful at times.

The SFU campus can be likened to Lancaster's - built in the 60s on a hill, concrete, underpass for the buses, modern art sculptures, permanent building site. Lancaster gets the occasional buzzard flying over, but I've never seen an osprey. This one was checking out the giant carp in the pond.

You can leave campus via one of several mountain bike paths of differing difficulty - just watch out for bears and mountain lions.

On the other side of campus is Burnaby Mountain Park, where there are views across the water to the distant hills, and also some totem-like sculptures with distant Vancouver as the backdrop.

After teaching was over, Patrick had some family time in Vancouver, and I went off on a coastal adventure.