Recently, I thought about writing about visiting my mathematician father, Paul Shields, when he was at the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics in the Black Forest in the spring of 1992. The problem was that I couldn't remember anything about that visit except that it happened, although now it does cross my mind that it was when I met Abraham Lempel or Jacob Ziv (I'm not sure which) of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm used in data compression ("The next word is the shortest new word"). This morning, though, I read someone else's memory of Oberwolfach: Michele Santamaria's poem "Oberwolfach, A Love Poem" in the latest issue of the poetry magazine "The Shore". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 4April 2025)
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