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Introduction ; My parents' Montreal years and growing up with Raoul as my father ; Raoul Bott, McGill, the 1940s ; Iron rings, Doctor Honoris Causa Raoul Bott, Carl Herz, and a hidden hand ; The Bott-Duffin synthesis of electrical circuits ; Raoul Bott as we knew him ; Working with Raoul Bott: From geometry to physics ; The algorithmic side of Riemann's mathematics ; Actions of Lie groups and Lie algebras on manifolds ; PDE from the point of view of multiplier ideals ; Dirac operator and theory for discrete groups ; The Lefschetz principle, fixed point theory, and index theory ; A new look at the theory of levels ; On the space of morphisms between Etale groupoids ; Raoul Bott as we knew him ; Loop products on connected sums of projective spaces ; Equivariant cohomology and reflections ; Connectedness of level sets of the moment map for torus actions on the based loop group ; Computing characteristic numbers using fixed points ; From minimal geodesics to supersymmetric field theories ; Raoul Bott as my math teacher ; A physics colloquium at McGill that changed my life ; Geometric Langlands from six dimensions ; Duality and equivalence of module categories in noncommutative geometry ; Generalized complex geometry and T-duality ; Topological quantum field theories from compact Lie groups