Max Planck

Photo taken on January 8th. Note the lack of snow and the preponderance of dried leaves. Sheesh: and they call this winter. 

Anyways, the sign next to the door indicates that this is the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. The Max Planck institutes are a collection of a couple of dozen research labs in a range of hard sciences under the common Max Planck banner (he was a German physicist). Although some labs in the Max Planck 'consortium' are more prestigous than others, the organization is one of the major scientific forces in the world. I have read many academic papers written by folks at the Max Planck Instutute for Physics (which is located in a different city). So while it is not really the same thing, it's interesting by affiliation.