Pieter Allaart, Associate Professor



This page will help you to find out more about:

(No, this is not Amsterdam; it's just a picture I found on the network that appealed to me) 

This is some personal stuff that you might find interesting:

I have my Ph.D. from the  Free University in Amsterdam. But I grew up on the countryside in a province called Zeeland ("land from the sea"), in the Southwest of the country, near Belgium. (Yes, we tell jokes about Belgians). It may not seem a big deal to you, but I lived below sea level the first 27 years of my life.

My hobbies are biking, hiking, playing chess, playing volleyball, doing math research, traveling, and listening to music (favorite instrument: piano; favorite composers: Ravel, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev; but I'm also fond of jazz music, especially Bill Evans, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, and almost any kind of New Orleans Dixieland).
Though I'm not a real addict, I like to go to the cinema sometimes. Favorite movies: Casablanca, Fargo, Kansas City, North by Northwest, and Il Postino (a beautiful Italian countryside portrait). And I find James Bond movies usually quite entertaining.

What I like about Texas? The climate! It's really mucb, much better than the Dutch, Dutch weather.
(Dare take a look at the  weather in Amsterdam ?) Also, I like the space and the laid-back atmosphere.

On the down side, I really don't like:

The best thing about UNT? No doubt the many outstanding performances at the College of Music, ranging from classical to jazz and new music, and who knows what I haven't discovered yet. If you like music, check out the
Calendar of Events
 

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